Reflecting Together: Classroom Video as a Tool for Teacher Learning in Mathematics

With the aim of strengthening mathematics teaching | learning, classroom video is increasingly used as a tool for teachers to reflect on their practice. In the first phase of a two-phase design-based study, a group of primary teachers selected, viewed and discussed video excerpts from mathematics lessons. Engaging with and working to reconcile differences that emerged in the teachers' ideas about practice catalysed productive conversations for their learning. What was noticed and picked up for discussion mediated what conceptual resources were made available for teachers' reflections. Sharing classroom video provided teachers with both a window into the otherwise private practice of others, and a mirror in which to reflect on their own practice.