Elizabeth A. van Es

Assistant Professor
Department of Education

email: evanes@uci.edu
phone: 949.824.7819
office: Education 2040

Biography

Elizabeth (Beth) van Es received her Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University in 2004.

Dr. van Es' research interests include teacher thinking and learning and the design of pre-service teacher education and professional development. Specifically, she investigates teacher "noticing” – what stands out to teachers when they observe and analyze teaching and how they interpret these events. She currently conducts her research in the context of mathematics education. Future research will examine teacher noticing across content areas and grade levels. In addition, she explores the role of video in helping teachers learn to notice, analyze, and reflect on teaching and learning. She has designed and facilitated “video clubs” to help teachers learn to attend to student thinking. She has also designed and implemented a computer-based video analysis tool to help teachers learn to examine and reflect on teaching.

In 2008, Beth received a two-year research fellowship from the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation to study how future secondary mathematics teachers learn to analyze and reflect on teaching through observing records from teaching practice. This research programs seeks to understand how to design and facilitate a pre-service teacher education course intended to help teachers learn to learn from their teaching.

Beth also established the Teacher Learning Research Group, which brings together faculty and graduate students on a regular basis to share research related to teacher thinking and learning.

Recent publications by Dr. van Es have appeared in the Journal of the Learning Sciences, Journal of Teacher Education, and Teaching and Teacher Education. Beth is formerly a high school English and Communication teacher.

Publications

Selected Publications

• van Es, E.A. (2009). Participants’ roles in the context of a video club. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 18(1), 100-137.
• Sherin, M.G. & van Es, E.A. (2009). Effects of Video Club Participation on Teachers’ Professional Vision. Journal of Teacher Education, 60, 20-37.
• van Es, E.A. & Sherin, M.G. (2008). Mathematics teachers’ “learning to notice” in the context of a video club. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24, 244-276.
• van Es, E.A., & Sherin, M.G. (2002). Learning to notice: Scaffolding new teachers’ interpretations of classroom interactions. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 10(4), 571-596.

Manuscripts in Progress

• van Es, E.A. & Conroy, J. (in press). Using the Performance Assessment of California Teachers to Examine Pre-Service Teachers’ Conceptions of Teaching for Understanding. Issues in Teacher Education. (To appear in the Fall 2009 issue).
• van Es, E.A. & Sherin, M.G. (under review). The influence of video clubs on teachers' thinking and practice. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education.
• Sherin, M.G., Linsenmeier, K.A.,  & van Es, E.A. (under review). Issues in the design of video clubs: Selecting video clips for teacher learning. Journal of Teacher Education.

Selected Presentations

• van Es, E.A. (2009, February). Facilitating video-based environments for mathematics teacher learning. Presentation at the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Orlando, FL.
• van Es, E.A. (2008, March). A framework for learning to notice student thinking. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association Conference, New York, NY. (Symposium title: High Tech High Touch: Creating Discourse Communities Around Video Cases in Literacy, Science and Mathematics.)
• Sherin, M.G. & van Es, E.A. (2007, April). Using video to document changes in teachers’ professional vision. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
• van Es, E.A. (2007, April). Video clubs as a teacher learning community. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
  
  For more research related to teachers� noticing, visit:
  www.professional-vision.org

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)