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The Culture beyond the Content: Does an Overcoming Testimony Empower Effective Urban Mathematics Teachers to Reach Their Students?

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Culture beyond the Content: Does an Overcoming Testimony Empower Effective Urban Mathematics Teachers to Reach Their Students?/
Author:	Smith, John Franklin.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	222 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-04A.
Subject:	Mathematics education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28545932
ISBN:	9798460475629

The Culture beyond the Content: Does an Overcoming Testimony Empower Effective Urban Mathematics Teachers to Reach Their Students?
Smith, John Franklin.

The Culture beyond the Content: Does an Overcoming Testimony Empower Effective Urban Mathematics Teachers to Reach Their Students? - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 222 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.

Thesis (D.Ed.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This study evaluates the personal histories and beliefs of twelve qualifying middle school mathematics teachers to determine the role experiences and beliefs play in how teachers transform challenging classes into relatively high achievers. Effective is defined as recommended by their principals, coupled with demonstrated growth through public data of the state's PARCC* assessment. Urban is defined as schools having close proximity to a major U.S. city, comprised of over 80% minority student populations and over 60% FARMS** recipients. Based on the literature and anecdotal evidence, a conceptual framework called the "overcoming testimony"- missionary zeal, community bonding, legacy, activist ideology and guardian angel - was designed to evaluate interview data. An interview protocol was administered and the interviews were videotaped and transcribed for further study. The impact of the teachers' personal histories on their current practices was assessed using a coding system as the transcripts were evaluated. The results showed strong alignment with Fives and Buehl's (2012) findings whereby beliefs "filter, frame and guide" decision-making. Beliefs and experiences filtered pedagogical choices and methods. The "overcoming testimony" elements framed their resiliency and commitment to their students' welfare. Views on culture and content guided the teachers toward creating learning environments that promoted achievement. The data demonstrated an emerging community-bonding dynamic between African-American teachers and their Hispanic students. The results indicate effective teachers may succeed in part due to negative experiences they endured as students. I argue that based on the prevalence of beliefs and experiences evident in the interviews, these perspectives serve as a cultural lens enabling teachers to effectively engage grade-level mathematics students to demonstrate proficiency on state assessments. Without this lens, content mastery alone could be insufficient to the task.*The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers**Free and Reduced Meals.

ISBN: 9798460475629Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Mathematics education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Cultural

The Culture beyond the Content: Does an Overcoming Testimony Empower Effective Urban Mathematics Teachers to Reach Their Students?
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