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Makale Özeti:
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In typical school settings, teachers are not afforded the opportunity to observe the instructional practices of their
peers. Time constraints, opportunity, and willingness to participate in observational practices are just three of
the factors that may limit teachers’ engagement in this type of activity. To provide teachers with opportunities to
observe a standards-based, elementary mathematics classroom, online streaming videos of instruction were
disseminated to third grade teachers within a single school. As they viewed each video, the participants were
presented with the opportunity to read the teacher’s introduction explaining the focus of the video and engage in
discussion around each video through text. Discussions included posting their own comments, reading other
participants’ comments, or posing questions. The purpose of this research was to examine the properties and/or
qualities of the online streaming video that attracted the participants to use it, to identify the remaining obstacles
that prevented the participants from utilizing the technology, and to explore the potential of online streaming
video for engaging teachers in critically thinking about instruction and in turn impacting beliefs. Data was
gathered in the form of surveys, interviews, and online comments. Results are provided and future research
directions are given.
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