A Study on Teacher's Pre-Noticing and Actual Noticing in Mathematics Classroom

교사의 사전 주목하기와 수학수업에서 실제 주목하기에 대한 연구

  • Received : 2016.08.09
  • Accepted : 2016.09.13
  • Published : 2016.12.31

Abstract

Teacher noticing ability has been considered as one of important elements influencing a quality of teaching. Noticing is closely related to teachers' in the moment decision making in a class, and teachers notice things as they create and interact with their classroom setting. Mathematics teachers as an expert should notice students' mathematics learning during a class. The aim of this study was to analyze how mathematics teacher's pre-noticing activity that the teacher anticipated students' typical strategies and difficulties in learning targeted mathematics knowledge and prepared appropriate responses worked in practice. As a result, the teacher conducted three types of noticing in her classes: noticing shaping students' understanding by using students' misconceptions or errors; noticing creating students' learning opportunities based on their prior knowledge; noticing improving students' informal reasoning. This study concluded with discussion about the positive effect of teacher's pre-noticing activity on her actual noticing in practice, as well as implications for teacher education.

교사의 주목하기 능력은 교수의 질을 결정하는 중요한 요소 중의 하나로 언급되어 오고 있다. 주목하기는 수업 중 이루어지는 교사의 순간적인 의사결정과 밀접히 관련되어 있으며, 다차원성과 동시성의 특징을 가진 수업 상황에서 교사는 능동적으로 환경을 만들고 상호작용하면서 주목하기를 실행한다. 수학 교사가 전문가로서 수업 상황에서 주목해야만 하는 중요한 측면 중의 하나는 학생의 수학 학습이다. 이에 본 연구는 학생들이 목표로 하는 수학적 지식을 학습하면서 보일 수 있는 전형적인 전략과 어려움 등을 예상하고 적절한 대응을 예측해보는 교사의 사전 주목하기 활동이 실제 수업에서 학생의 학습에 대한 교사의 주목하기에 어떻게 반영되어 드러나는지를 조사하였다. 그 결과 오개념이나 오류를 이해 형성의 기회로 활용하는 주목하기, 학생들의 사전지식에 기초하여 학습기회 창출을 시도하는 주목하기, 학생들의 불완전한 추론을 개선하기 위한 주목하기의 세 가지 형태로 교사의 주목하기가 실행되었다. 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 사전 주목하기 활동이 실제 수업에서 발생하는 교사 주목하기에 미치는 긍정적인 영향과 학생들의 학습을 돕기 위해 교사들이 주목해야만 하는 측면들에 대한 교사의 인식을 강화시키기 위해 사전 주목하기 전략이 유용할 수 있음을 논의하였다.

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