Abstract

This study compared and analyzed the noticing abilities of preservice elementary school teachers in the United States and Korea in terms of a sociocultural perspective. Noticing is a professional perspective that allows teachers to recognize students' thinking and actions during class and make teaching decisions based on it. In this study, we posed a task on fraction subtraction to preservice teachers in two countries and examined the differences in abilities and types of the three components of noticing, attending, interpreting, and responding. As a result of the analysis, preservice teachers in the two countries showed similar abilities in attending and interpreting, but Korean preservice teachers showed superior abilities in responding. In addition, preservice teachers in the two countries showed both similar and differentiated types. This is a result that reflects differences in educational culture and teaching methods, and shows differences in the sociocultural perspective of teacher education emphasized in each country. Based on the results of this study, directions for improving noticing skills were suggested by considering differences in curriculum and teaching methods by country.

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