An action research on a middle school mathematics teacher’s lesson reflection: Focused on the teacher’s discourse capability to promote students’ participation

Jinhwan Park1   Bomi Shin2,*   

1Teacher, Chonnam National University Graduate School
2Professor, Chonnam National University

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the changing process in a middle school teacher’s discourse capability through reflection to lessons, thereby providing the implications for activities to improve the quality of lessons. To that end, this study explored the characteristics of change in the teacher’s discourse capability of promoting students’ participation while the teacher repeated instruction implementation and meeting for reflecting the implementation. Through the reflection, the teacher noticed his own matters about dealing with the students’ responses and presentations. By attempting to address the matters in the instructions and reflecting the attempt, the teacher was able to accelerate the students’ participation in the lesson discourse through enhancing productivity and openness of the discourse. The result of this study demonstrated that lesson reflection beneficially influenced development of teaching profession related to discourse capability.

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Figure 1. S8‘s drawing.