Leading team
Dr. Ronnie Karsenty
Prof. Susanne Prediger (TU Dortmund, Germany)
Prof. Abraham Arcavi
Ph.D. students
Gil Schwartz
Consultants
Dr. Avital Elbaum-Cohen
Administration
Shani Motsa
Summary
This research focuses on facilitators’ professionalization processes in the first year of conducting PD courses. Our goal is to capture not only the facilitators’ knowledge growth during their qualification period before they enter their actual job, but mainly the development of their practices and decision-making processes on the job, using a longitudinal collective case study design with a data collection phase of 1.5 years. Data is collected in two PD programs for mathematics teachers, in Israel and in Germany. At each site, facilitators are accompanied from their qualification stage and into the first year on the job of conducting PD courses. The research uses various data collection means, including video data from the facilitators’ preparation workshops; video documentation of the PD sessions conducted by the new facilitators; individual journals; questionnaires; and video-based interviews. Comparison of cases within and between the Israeli and German contexts will serve to identify context-specific and context-independent patterns in the facilitators’ processes of professionalization, and consequently generate a theoretical framework to describe such processes.
Related Papers
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Karsenty, R., Pöhler, B., Schwarts, G., Prediger, S. & Arcavi, A. (accepted). Processes of decision-making by mathematics PD facilitators: The role of resources, orientations, goals and identities. To appear in Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education.
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Schwarts, G., Pöhler, B., Elbaum-Cohen, A., Karsenty, R., Arcavi, A., & Prediger, S. (2021). Novice facilitators’ changes in practices: From launching to managing discussions about mathematics teaching. The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmathb.2021.100901
- Schwarts, G., Arcavi, A. & Karsenty R. (2021). Novice facilitators’ participation practices in discussions about issues of mathematics teaching. In M. Inprasitha, N. Changsri, & N. Boonsena, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 4, pp. 20-28). Khon Kaen, Thailand: PME.
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Karsenty, R. (2018). Talking about observed practices: Enhancing novice facilitators' proficiency to steer video-based discussions with mathematics teachers. Paper presented at EARLI SIG-11 Conference (Teaching and Teacher Education), University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, June 2018.
- Karsenty, R. (2016). Preparing facilitators to conduct video-based professional development for mathematics teachers: Needs, experiences and challenges. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Educating the Educators, Freiburg, Germany, November 2016.