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Amanda Benedict-Chambers - Missouri State University. Springfield, MO, UNITED STATES

Amanda Benedict-Chambers

Assistant Professor, Childhood Education and Family Studies | Missouri State University

Springfield, MO, UNITED STATES

Dr. Benedict-Chambers specializes in elementary teacher education and science teacher education.

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Dr. Mandy Benedict-Chambers is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Education at Missouri State University. She taught elementary school in Charlottesville, Virginia, for more than four years and continues to teach science to local elementary students as much as possible.

She earned her master’s degree in Curriculum Development at the University of Michigan in 2005. At Michigan, she served as the project coordinator for the Investigating and Questioning our World through Science and Technology (IQWST) project, which is a middle school science curricula developed to meet the learning goals of the Next Generation Science Standards. She completed her doctorate in Teaching and Teacher Education at the University of Michigan in 2014.

Her research focuses on pre-service and in-service elementary teacher learning, teachers learning to engage in ambitious teaching in science and the roles of tools and practice-based teacher education in supporting teacher learning and practice. She is the Principal Investigator of the project: Video Evidence for Candidates’ Teaching Reflections (VECTR), which examines how video-supported reflections help pre-service teachers learn to notice and respond to student thinking. Recent articles appear in the international journal Teaching and Teacher Education.

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Education/Learning

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Areas of Expertise (2)

Elementary Teacher Education

Science Teacher Education

Education (3)

University of Michigan: Ph.D., Educational Studies: Teaching and Teacher Education 2014

Dissertation: "Developing professional vision for practice: Preservice teachers using students' scientific ideas in simulations of practice."

University of Michigan: M.A., Educational Studies: Curriculum Development 2005

Longwood University: B.A., Elementary Education 2000

Affiliations (5)

  • American Educational Research Association
  • National Association for Research in Science Teaching
  • National Science Teachers Association
  • Teacher Education Accreditation Council
  • Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Research Grants (2)

Collaborating Across Elementary Education Methods Courses to Use Video to Promote Teacher Candidates’ Reflection of Instruction

Missouri State University $7480

2015 (Ongoing)

Preservice Teachers Noticing Student Thinking in Science Teaching Rehearsals

Missouri State University $6000

2014

Articles (1)

Using tools to promote novice teacher noticing of science teaching practices in post-rehearsal discussions


Teaching and Teacher Education

2016 This study explores the potential of tool-supported post-rehearsal discussions in helping novice teachers learn to notice and interpret critical features of science teaching.

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