Content-specific noticing: A large-scale survey of mathematics teachers’ noticing

Teachers’ noticing is an important skill for learning from and improving their teaching. We investigated what teachers noticed in short video clips of a real classroom teacher’s interaction with students around a mathematics problem by collecting data from 496 U.S. fourth- and fifth-grade teachers from 48 states. Our analyses indicated that 67.5% of teachers’ responses focused on content-specific teaching and learning events, whereas 14% of them...