TY  - JOUR
T1  - An Investigation of Pre-service Middle School Mathematics Teachers’ Discussion Skills in the Context of Microteaching Lesson Study
AU  - Yılmaz, Nadide
AU  - Yetkın-ozdemır, İ. Elif
PY  - 2019
DA  - August
JF  - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences
JO  - EPESS
PB  - ISRES Publishing
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2587-1730
SP  - 37
EP  - 43
VL  - 13
LA  - en
AB  - High quality discussions can enable students to understand complexmathematical concepts (Smith & Stein, 2011). Effective mathematicsdiscussions occur when teachers engage the listening, thinking, inquiring, andapplying skills of their students (Lobato, Clark & Ellis, 2005; NCTM,1991). Studies show, however, that teachers face many challenges inorchestrating mathematics discussions (Stein, Engle, Smith & Hughes, 2008).  Novice teachers, in particular, struggle tocoach their students through the discussion process (Chazen, 2000; Wood &Turner-Vorbeck, 2001). Therefore, the study found that orchestratingmathematics discussions is a skill that pre-service teachers should beencouraged to develop. The aim of this study was to develop pre-service middleschool mathematics teachers’ mathematical discussion skills in the context ofmicroteaching lesson study. Three senior pre-service teachers participated inand implemented three microteaching lesson study cycles. Data was obtained fromlesson plans prepared by pre-service teachers, video recordings, observations,and field notes. Data was examined based on Smith and Stein’s (2011) method oforchestrating productive mathematical discussions via anticipating, monitoring,selecting, sequencing, and connecting. Results showed that as microteachinglesson study proceed, pre-service teachers acquired skills about anticipatestudent thinking and select students’ purposeful answers. In addition to that,pre-service teachers began successfully sequencing student thoughts andconnecting important points related to big ideas.
KW  - Discussion skills
KW  - Lesson study
KW  - Pre-service teachers
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