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Biography

Gloriana González’s research focuses on problem-based instruction in mathematics classrooms. She is interested in examining teachers’ decision-making when handling students’ prior knowledge during problem-based lessons and the rationality underlying those decisions. She is currently investigating teachers’ perspectives about using visual arts contexts for geometry instruction. With the support of a CAREER grant by the National Science Foundation, she led a project that created a professional development model combining animations and video clubs within a Lesson Study cycle to promote teacher learning.

She was a middle and high school mathematics teacher in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico. She was a member of the editorial panel of the Mathematics Teacher Educator, and the chair of the panel in 2018-2019.

She is the co-PI of a project funded by the National Science Foundation with the University of Puerto Rico for improving undergraduate mathematics teacher education through Lesson Study. In 2022, Dr. González won Mid-Career Award by the American Educational Research Association, Division K.

Research & Service

Gloriana González’s research has focused on problem-based instruction in mathematics classrooms. She has examined teachers’ decision-making when handling students’ prior knowledge during problem-based lessons and the rationality underlying those decisions. She has investigated teachers’ perspectives about using visual arts contexts for geometry instruction. With the support of a CAREER grant by the National Science Foundation, she led a project that created a professional development model combining animations and video clubs within a Lesson Study cycle to promote teacher learning.

She was a middle and high school mathematics teacher in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico. She was a member of the editorial panel of the Mathematics Teacher Educator, and the chair of the panel in 2018-2019.

With collaborators at the University of Puerto Rico, she as the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the National Science Foundation with the University of Puerto Rico for improving undergraduate mathematics teacher education through Lesson Study.

Currently, Gloriana González is investigating how to integrate design in geometry classrooms. In collaboration with the Siebel Center for Design at the University of Illinois, she is the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the National Science Foundation aimed at developing problem-based geometry lessons using a human-centered design approach. In 2024, she was a Visiting Professor at the Design School Kolding, Denmark.

Gloriana González was named University Scholar at the University of Illinois. She received the 2022 Mid-Career Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education. She was elected Chair of the American Educational Research Association’s Lesson Study Special Interest Group for the 2024-2027 term.