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Teachers' learning from addressing the challenges of online teaching in a time of pandemic: a case in Shanghai.

ABSTRACT: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China, all school classes were delivered through an online environment from February 24 to May 22, 2020. To support this transition, the Shanghai Education Commission led expert teachers and specialists to develop a series of online video lessons based on the Shanghai unified curriculum, and suggested students watch the online video lessons individually from home, followed by an online synchronous lesson supported by class teachers. This study investigated what primary mathematics teachers learned from addressing these challenges through a case study. By following two purposefully selected teachers over 2 weeks during the transition, multiple data sets including online video lessons, online synchronous lessons, daily reflections, and post-online teacher interviews were collected. A fine-grained analysis of the data from the lens of the documentational approach to didactics found that teachers adaptively used online video lessons as important resources for their online synchronous lessons and virtual Teaching Research Groups as a teachers' collaboration mechanism supported them to develop online video lessons and address various technological constraints. Finally, implications of this case study for mathematics education globally are discussed.

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The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10649-022-10172-2.

SUBMITTER: Huang X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9344236 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Teachers' learning from addressing the challenges of online teaching in a time of pandemic: a case in Shanghai.

Huang Xingfeng X Huang Rongjin R Trouche Luc L

Educational studies in mathematics 20220802 1

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China, all school classes were delivered through an online environment from February 24 to May 22, 2020. To support this transition, the Shanghai Education Commission led expert teachers and specialists to develop a series of online video lessons based on the Shanghai unified curriculum, and suggested students watch the online video lessons individually from home, followed by an online synchronous lesson supported by class teachers. This study investigat ...[more]

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