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| Abstract Title: | A tool for documenting and analyzing the flow of conversation about teaching and learning in facilitated faculty conversations |
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| Abstract: | The curriculum-focused [actual name masked for this review] faculty online learning community was established to provide extended support to faculty implementing a student-centered physics and physical science curriculum. Through regular, facilitator-led, online meetings of small groups, faculty raise and discuss issues of teaching and learning pertinent to the curriculum. In this paper we introduce the Flow of Conversation tool, developed to identify meeting prompts from both facilitators and non-facilitators that initiate discussion about issues of teaching and learning. We showcase the application of this tool to a community meeting taking place after the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated transition to online instruction. In this particular meeting, the tool allowed us to perceive the shared agency between facilitators and non-facilitators in raising and responding to consequential issues of teaching and learning. We suggest this tool may be appropriate for investigating facilitated meetings in other professional communities, where members are positioned to contribute meaningfully towards the progression of knowledge. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session I |
| Poster Number: | 1.H2 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Makenna M. Martin Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education, San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92120 Phone: 619-772-2542 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Fred Goldberg, Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education, San Diego State University Michael McKean, Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education, San Diego State University Alexandra C. Lau, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Edward Price, Department of Physics, California State University San Marcos Chandra Turpen, Department of Physics, University of Maryland Stephanie Williams, Department of Physics, University of Maryland |
