Teacher Professional Vision: Theoretical and Methodological Advances

Andreas Gegenfurtner is Professor of Methods in Learning Research at the University of Augsburg. His research focuses on teacher noticing, student diversity, digital learning, and the confluence of expertise, training, and development in the professions.Rebekka Stahnke is a postdoctoral researcher at the IPN – Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education in Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include teacher professional vision, classroom management, and teacher professional development.

• Part I Introduction; 1. Introduction; 2. Research on teacher professional vision: Mapping the landscape of theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions; Part II Theoretical Frameworks; 3. Professional vision and teacher noticing: Looking back and looking forward; 4. A cognitive perspective on teachers’ professional vision: How teachers’ professional knowledge shapes a professional vision; 5. Intelligence, knowledge, skills, behavior: Refining the Blömeke, Gustafsson, and Shavelson model of competence as a continuum; 6. Cognitive theory of visual expertise: Implications for research on teacher noticing and professional vision; Part III Methodological Approaches; 7. Characteristics and validation of video-based standardized instruments measuring professional vision – A closer look at the predictive validity of different task formats; 8. Using videos as a tool to promote professional vision; 9. Extended reality as a tool in research on teachers’ professional vision; 10. Eye tracking as a process-based methodology to examine teachers’ professional vision; 11. Intervention research on teachers’ professional vision: Challenges of current research; Part IV Discussion; 12. Teacher professional vision – a concept revisited