Dr. Rebekah L. Elliott
Year Hired
2006
Before Coming to OSU, I was an instructor at the University of Washington's College of Education working with pre-service teachers and in-service certification students. In addition, I worked with colleagues on two National Science Foundation development grants supporting K-12 mathematics teachers in the Puget Sound region. During graduate school I designed and conducted professional development with the Wyoming Professional Development Institutes. Prior to attending graduate school, I was a high school mathematics teacher in California working with mathematics reform and new standards.
Specialty:
Mathematics Education
Research interests:
My research and teaching center on working with teachers to better understand how to support children's mathematical understandings. To do this work, I am interested in designing and studying teachers' professional communities in which all members of the mathematics teaching profession (pre-service, in-service and leaders) collaboratively engage in examining practice, and artifacts of practice. My recent work investigates how professional communities develop discourse to inquire into mathematics and the teaching and learning of mathematics. In particular, I am examining how providers of professional development may learn to facilitate more robust understandings of mathematics with teachers.
Recent Publications:
Elliott, R.L. (2005, April). Professional Development Of Professional Developers: Using Practice-Based Materials To Foster An Inquiring Stance. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, Montreal, Canada.
Wolf, S. A., Borko, H., Elliott, R.L., & McIver, M. C. (2005). "That dog won't hunt!": Exemplary school change efforts within the Kentucky reform. In G. Ponder & D. Strahan (Eds.) Deep change: Cases and commentary on reform in high stakes states, (pp. 153-200). Information Age Publications. [This is a reprint of an article originally published in American Educational Research Journal.]
Elliott, R.L. (October, 2002). Sociocultural perspectives on mentoring mathematics student teachers. Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting North American Chapter of the International Group of the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
Borko, H., Elliott, R.L. & Uchiyama, K. (2002). Professional Development: A key to Kentucy's educational reform effort. Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies.
Borko, H. & Elliott, R.L. (1999). Hands -On Pedagogy Verses Hands-off Accountability: Tensions between Competing Commitments for Exemplary Math Teachers In Kentucky. Phi Delta Kappan 80(5).
Recent Grant/Funded Work
OSU Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant: Integrating Case-Based Learning into Mathematics and Science Education Courses.
Washington State Title II: Mathematical Inquiry and Natural Resources InstituteUnder review:
Teacher Professional Continuum National Science Foundation: Research Mathematics Leader Learning
Courses Taught
SED 556/557 Science and Mathematics Methods II
Degrees:
University of Colorado-Boulder, Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction, Mathematics Education and Research on Teaching. Dissertation title Mentoring Secondary Preservice Mathematics Teachers: A Sociocultural Perspective.
University of California- Santa Barbara Bachelor of Arts
Office:
Weniger 267
Phone:
(541) 737-1821
Email:
elliottr@science.oregonstate.edu