Part of CRLT's Equity-focused Teaching @ Michigan Series

Teacher noticing is a framework that describes how teachers attend to instructional moments, interpret these moments, and respond to these instructional moments. Teacher noticing is a skill that develops reciprocally with experience and can be useful to notice students’ disciplinary understanding and enacting equity-focused teaching, primarily through tenets like academic belonging and critical engagement of difference. As GSIs develop their framing, or their commitments for equity, these frames can influence how and what GSIs notice in the classroom to counter the culturally dominant frames of higher education (e.g., meritocracy, objectivity, etc.). Given that GSIs have powerful opportunities to leverage equity, learning how to reflect upon your noticing can be a useful tool to further develop your commitment and ability to identify areas to enact your equity-focused teaching in the classroom. In this session, we will focus primarily on how to use the teacher noticing framework to critically engage with difference in your classroom by taking an asset-based approach to noticing students’ understanding and lived experiences.