Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10497/22791
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Subjects: 
Classroom interactions
Learning experiences
Orchestrating discussions
Teacher noticing
Typical problems
Issue Date: 
2020
Publisher: 
Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Citation: 
Choy, B. H., & Jaguthsing Dindyal. (2020). Portraits of teacher noticing during orchestration of learning experiences in the mathematics classrooms (Report No. OER 03/16 CBH). National Institute of Education (Singapore), Office of Education Research.
Abstract: 
The call for teachers to engage students to learn mathematics through learning experiences (Tyler, 1949) is not through a change in content coverage; but instead, on the way Mathematics is taught and learnt (Ministry of Education-Singapore, 2012). Learning experiences were thus included as part of the current mathematics syllabus to provide opportunities for students to engage in mathematical processes, and to “influence the ways
teachers teach and students learn”, so that the key objectives of mathematics education in Singapore could be achieved (Ministry of Education-Singapore, 2012, p. 20). They are stated in the form “students should have opportunities…” to signal the type of activities expected for each topic. However, as Tyler (1949) had highlighted, different students may experience these tasks differently even though the tasks are set up in the same way. This, according to Tyler (1949), presents the challenge of setting up the learning experiences to orchestrate learning.

Although the intentions and even the descriptions of learning experiences are given, teachers have the autonomy to design, select, and adapt tasks to provide these experiences for students. To realise the learning experiences as intended by the tasks, teachers would also need to orchestrate the implementation of the tasks in their mathematics classrooms (Tyler, 1949). This is deliberate work, and while most of the current support given to teachers is to help them make sense of the learning experiences, how teachers can orchestrate learning experiences to teach mathematics remains largely unexplored. Furthermore, given that what teachers notice—attend to, and how they interpret and respond to students’ reasoning (Sherin, Jacobs, & Philipp, 2011)—during the implementation of tasks is critical if we were to develop students’ competencies in the mathematical processes, it is therefore crucial for mathematics educators to investigate what teachers notice when orchestrating these learning experiences.
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OER 03/16 CBH
Grant ID: 
Education Research Funding Programme (ERFP)
Funding Agency: 
Ministry of Education, Singapore
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