Project overview
Today's inclusive classrooms constist of students with diverse needs, and co-teaching is a growing method of organizing learning support. Teachers direct their visual attention in the classroom to notice the students' needs for support, and adapt the instruction accordingly. This project investigates co-teachers' professional vision to understand how adaptive instruction helps students to overcome situational learning challenges. It will provide novel knowledge on the co-teachers' eye-contact interaction and how they and their students experience the attention. The research data will include mobile eye-tracking recordings on co-teaching pairs and video recordings in elementary-school mathematics lessons. The multimodal data will be synchronized and analyzed by combining qualitative and statistical approaches. Teachers, education providers, and teacher educators will benefit from detailed information on the best practices of situational co-teaching practices to support student learning.
