{"id":4,"date":"2017-02-17T21:39:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/teresadunleavy\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T20:18:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:18:31","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/teresadunleavy\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I joined the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College in the\u00a0fall of 2015 as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education. One of my main roles\u00a0involves working with teacher candidates as the Co-Director of Secondary Education [Mathematics]. As a former high school mathematics teacher, I will always identify as a teacher and a learner. I am delighted to\u00a0continue to\u00a0learn and grow\u00a0professionally as a mathematics teacher educator. I do this work because I know that all students can be successful in mathematics, given significant opportunities.<\/p>\n

During the 2019-2020 school year, I will participate as a Mathematics Teacher Education Fellow with the Center for Inquiry and Equity in Mathematics<\/a>. My work as a Mathematics Teacher Education Fellow will grow the\u00a0collaborative work that I have with two other mathematics teacher educator colleagues-\u00a0Dr. Maisie Gholson, University of Michigan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dr. Alison Marzocchi,\u00a0California State University, Fullerton<\/a>. Together, Dr. Gholson, Dr. Marzocchi\u00a0and I\u00a0are\u00a0exploring\u00a0what our students learn\u00a0about themselves when engaging in\u00a0identity-based assignments\u00a0in our mathematics teacher education courses.<\/p>\n

I am Co-Principal Investigator with PI Dr. Heather J. Johnson<\/a> on The Recruitment and Preparation of Next Generation STEM Teachers<\/a>.\u00a0With this NSF Noyce Track 1 grant funded for 2019-2023, we seek to recruit and prepare STEM majors for a career in teaching science and mathematics.<\/p>\n

During the 2017-2018 school year, I participated in the Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows<\/a> program with the Center for Teaching<\/a> at Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n

In the Fall of 2017, I and two MNPS\u00a0mathematics teachers, Shannon Reider and Lizi Metts, along with a mathematics colleague, Jennifer Lovett <\/a>from MTSU started the Mathematics Teachers’ Circle of Middle Tennessee<\/a>. We bring together mathematics faculty, mathematics education faculty, mathematics teachers, and mathematics college\/graduate students to engage in mathematical play. We have had a very successful\u00a0first two years with\u00a0over 150 different colleagues and friends coming together to\u00a0engage in\u00a0mathematical play. Join us!<\/p>\n

In April 2017, I received a grant from The Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: \u201cFocus Group Research on the Recruitment, Preparation and Retention of Next Generation Black STEM Teachers.\u201d I have used this grant to work with Dr. Heather J. Johnson<\/a> and Dr. Nicole M. Joseph<\/a> to build relationships with mathematics, science, and education faculty at HBCUs, including Spelman and Morehouse Colleges and Fisk University.<\/p>\n

My broader research interests include analyzing equitable mathematics teaching practices and understanding students’ perspectives on their mathematics learning.\u00a0I seek to investigate practices that support classes to move toward equitable teaching and learning outcomes. I am also interested in understanding more about teaching practices that support the development of student discourse and attend to status issues in the classroom, in particular through the use of Video Club and video analysis. My research methods entail collecting and analyzing data, including video and audio recordings, interviews, classroom artifacts, and curricula. I utilize qualitative methods to analyze data across contexts and timescales in order to understand how interactions support learning.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0line with my research interest\u00a0to study teacher learning through Video Club and video analyses,\u00a0I\u00a0was PI\u00a0on a small-grant project investigating the discursive practices of high school\u00a0Integrated 1\u00a0teachers.\u00a0I explored how\u00a0teachers’ discursive practices were striving toward equity. In the first phase of the project, teachers were interviewed about their teaching beliefs. During Phase 2, each teacher was observed for 3 class periods, during which their class was video recorded and they tagged (selectively archived) interesting discursive moments. During Phase 3,\u00a0each teacher and I watched video excerpts together, in order to make sense of what the teachers learned about their practices. I imagine this project growing into a broader look at opportunities for teachers to engage in Video Clubs in order to learn about their teaching.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/peabody.vanderbilt.edu\/bio\/teresa-dunleavy<\/a><\/p>\n

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