Miriam Sherin

Northwestern University

Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Learning Sciences

Miriam Gamoran Sherin is the Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Learning Sciences in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Sherin's research seeks to improve our understanding of how teachers think and learn by examining a broad range of teacher knowledge across a variety of cognitive tasks. Most recently her research has focused on the construct of teacher noticing, looking specifically at teachers' professional vision — the ability to identify and respond to significant events in the moments of instruction. For over two decades Sherin has been at the forefront of efforts to design and study contexts that make use of video in ways that promote teacher learning. Mathematics Teacher Noticing: Seeing Through Teachers' Eyes, edited by Sherin, V. Jacobs, and R. Philipp, received the 2013 Excellence in Research in Teaching and Teacher Education award from the Teacher and Teacher Education Division of the American Educational Research Association. In 2016, Sherin, along with her colleagues K. Linsenmeier, J. Walkoe, and M. Mulligan were awarded the Outstanding Publication Award for Linking Research and Practice from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Sherin has served in several leadership roles during her almost 30 years at the Northwestern, as Director of Undergraduate Education and Associate Dean for Teacher Education in the School of Education and Social Policy and most recently as Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education in the Office of the Provost, a position she held from 2018 – 2025.