RAPT Lab: Representations, Activity, Play, and Technology Lab

Projects: Representations for Teachers as Learners (RepTal)

RepTal Website @RepTalProject

The Representations for Teachers as Learners (RepTal) project aims to better understand how elementary teachers think about representations as part of their science teaching.

Funding for the the iterations of the RepTal Project

Grant Name	Funding Agency	Grant Number	Co-PIs
Teacher Cognition and Learning about Incorporating Science Representations in Elementary Classrooms	James McDonnell Foundation	220020521	Joshua Danish, Noel Enyedy, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Meredith Park Rogers, Dionne Cross Francis, Robert Goldstone, Jose Felipe Martinez

Publications on the RepTal Project

Journal Articles Proceedings Book Chapter Presentations

2023

• Humburg, M., Bell, A., Keifert, D, T., Tu, X., Hmelo-Silver, C., Danish, A., Lee, S., Henrie, A., Park Rogers, M., Francis, D., & Enyedy, N. (2023) Learning to be a science teacher: The worries, joys, and vulnerabilities of exploring new pedagogies. International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2023. (Naomi Miyake Outstanding Student Paper Award)
• Humburg, M., Bell, A., Tu, X., Danish, J., Keifert, D., Hmelo-Silver, C., Henrie, A., Park Rogers, M., Enyedy. (2023) “Sounds Very Joyful to Me”: Emotional Engagement and Social Support in Teacher Professional Development. Paper accepted at the Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
• Park Rogers, M., Hmelo-Silver, C., Nicholas, C., Cross Francis, D., & Danish, J. (2023). Learning to Teach with Science Representations. Science and Children, 60(3), 60–67. paper
• Tu, X., Danish, J., Humburg, M., Hmelo-Silver, C., Park Rogers, M., Bell, A., & Lee, S. (2023). Understanding Teachers Perceptions of RePresentation in Elementary Science Classrooms, The Biennial Conference of European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Tu, X., Danish, J., Humburg, M., Hmelo-Silver, C., Park Rogers, M., Bell, A., & Lee, S. (2023). Understanding teachers’ perceptions of rePresentation in elementary science education. Annual conference of the American, Chicago, IL.
• Zhong, Q., Park Rogers, M., Nicholas, C., Danish, J. A., & Hmelo-Silver, C. E. (2023). An Elementary Teacher’s Development of Using Representations: Comparing 2 Years’ Teaching in Earth Science Unit. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 0(0), 1–22. paper

2022

• Gerber, A., Park Rogers, M. Cross Francis, D., Danish, J., & Akerson, V. (2022, January). Exploring how a Professional Development Program Adapts to Support Elementary teachers Learning to Teach Science with RePresentation. Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), Greenville, SC. paper abstract
• McClain, J., Nicholas, C., Zimmermann, K., Pierce, E., Danish, J., & Zhong, Q. (2022). Observing the Unobservable. Science and Children, 60(2). paper

2021

• Danish, J., Johnson, H.J., Nicholas, C., Francis, D. C., Hmelo-Silver, C., Rogers, M. P., Askew, R., Gerber, A., & Enyedy, N. (2021). Situating video as context for teacher learning. Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction, 30, 100542. paper
• Gerber, A., Park Rogers, M., Danish, J., Cross Francis, D. (2021). Exploring an adaptive professional development program and its contribution to teacher growth. Paper to be presented at Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) International Conference. paper abstract
• Zhong, Q., Nicholas, C., Hmelo-Silver, C., Danish, A. (2021). Exploring an elementary teacher’s knowledge and practices with science rePresentation over two years of professional development. Paper presented at Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) International Conference. paper abstract

2020

• Danish, J., Nicholas, C., Hmelo-Silver, C., Park Rogers, M., Cross Francis, D., Enyedy, N., Keifert, D., and Stiso, C. (2020). What, how, and why do elementary teachers think about using rePresentation in their science teaching? Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
• Danish, J., Stiso, C., Nicholas, C., Hmelo-Silver, C. E., Rogers, M. P., & Cross Francis, D. (2020). What, how, and why do elementary teachers think about using rePresentation in their science teaching? In Gresalfi, M. and Horn, I. S. (Eds.), The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, 4 (1934-1941). Nashville, Tennessee: International Society of the Learning Sciences. paper
• Nicholas, C., McClain, J., Park Rogers, M., & Danish, J.A. (2020). Elementary teachers’ elicitation of students’ funds of knowledge to support science learning with rePresentation. In Gresalfi, M. and Horn, I. S. (Eds.), The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, 4 (2151-2158). Nashville, Tennessee: International Society of the Learning Sciences. poster abstract
• Nicholas, C., Park Rogers, M., Danish, J., Hmelo-Silver, C., Zhong, Q., Stiso, C., Phillips, A., McClain, J., Gerber, A., (2020). Rural elementary teachers’ perceptions about incorporating rePresentation into their science teaching. Paper presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) International Conference. Portland, OR. paper abstract
• Park Rogers, M., Nicholas., C, Danish, J., Gerber, A., McClain, J., Phillips, A., Stiso, C., and Zhong, Q. (2020). Elementary teachers’ developing perceptions of the role of rePresentation in teaching science. Paper presented at the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) International Conference. San Antonio, TX. paper abstract

2019

• Park Rogers, M., Danish, J., Nicholas, C., Cross Francis, D. Hmelo-Silver, C. (2019). Supporting teacher cognition and instruction of science rePresentation in elementary classrooms: A peek into the first year of a multi-year program. Poster presented at the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) International Conference. Savannah, GA. poster abstract