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Refining Instructional Gestures to Support Learning

October 5, 2009

Teachers’ gestures play an important role in helping students learn.  Martha Alibali, Mitchell Nathan, and Eric Knuth are building an empirical basis for recommendations about how teachers can use gestures more effectively in K-12 mathematics classes and in higher education statistics courses. Their previous research found that teachers can intentionally alter their gestures after a brief tutorial. Instructionally effective gestures are an inexpensive and potentially valuable tool that teachers could add to their ‘toolkit’ of methods for effective communication. Given that both algebra and statistics are fundamental to scientific and mathematical literacy, the knowledge gained will contribute to improving algebra and statistics instruction.. More information is available here.