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Stenner, Rebekah; Zazkis, Rina – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2021
In this study we introduce "lesson play experience" (LPE) for implementation as professional development for in-service teachers. LPE is an extension of the "lesson play" notion, which refers to a script for an imagined lesson, written by a teacher, presented as dialogue of teacher-student(s) interaction. In mathematics teacher…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Scripts, Role Playing
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Zazkis, Rina – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2017
This study focuses on instances of creativity in the design of Lesson Play tasks and in prospective teachers' responses to the tasks. A Lesson Play task assumes a theatrical interpretation of the word "play" and requires teachers to write a script for an imaginary interaction between a teacher-character and student-characters, attending…
Descriptors: Creativity, Preservice Teachers, Scripts, Drama
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Zazkis, Dov; Zazkis, Rina – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
A significant body of research literature in mathematics education attends to mathematical proofs. However, scant research attends to proof comprehension, which is the focus of this study. We examine perspective secondary teachers' conceptions of what constitutes comprehension of a given proof and their ideas of how students' comprehension can be…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Validity, Comprehension
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Kontorovich, Igor'; Zazkis, Rina – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
This study is concerned with tensions between the two different perspectives on the concept of angle: angle as a static shape and angle as a dynamic turn. The goal of the study is to explore how teachers cope with these tensions. We analyze scripts of 16 in-service secondary mathematics teachers, which feature a dialogue between a teacher and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Teachers
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Zazkis, Rina; Sinclair, Nathalie – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2013
We discuss an innovative task used in teacher education--Lesson Play--that involves presenting a lesson in the form of an interaction between a teacher and students. We describe the motivation for the development of this task and, through specific examples, describe the iterative design process in which the task was refined and improved. We…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Instructional Innovation, Mathematics Instruction, Methods Courses
Zazkis, Rina; Nejad, Masomeh Jamshid – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2014
Role-playing is an unscripted dramatic technique that encourages participants to improvise behaviors that illustrate expected actions of persons involved in defined situations. However, among various uses in developing professionals, the use of role-playing in teacher education is rather rare. To give all students the opportunity to participate in…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Teaching Methods, Scripts, Mathematics Instruction