Journal ArticleDOI
Improving Mathematics Teachers' Content Knowledge via Brief In-service: A US Case Study
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The authors evaluated whether middle-level mathematics teachers' participation in a week-long in-service course on middle level mathematics concepts increased their understanding of this concept. And they found that participation in this course increased the teacher's understanding of the concepts.Abstract:
This study is an evaluation on whether middle‐level mathematics teachers’ participation in a week‐long in‐service course on middle‐level mathematics concepts increases their understanding of this c...read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Observed Implementation of a Science Professional Development Program for K-8 Classrooms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impact of a teacher professional development program on the classroom teaching practices of the participants in rural school districts, including an intensive summer institute, 8 monthly follow-up sessions, informal participant-professor mentoring and peer networking.
Journal ArticleDOI
Including Curriculum Focus in Mathematics Professional Development for Middle‐School Mathematics Teachers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined professional development workshops focused on Connected Math, a particular curriculum utilized or being considered by the middle-school mathematics teachers involved in the study, and found that engaging middle school teachers in the curriculum materials using pedagogy that can be used with their middle school students not only solidified teachers' familiarity with such strategies, but also contributed to their understanding of the mathematics content.
The effects of types, quantity, and quality of questioning in improving students' understanding
TL;DR: Sahin et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the effects of teachers' types, quality, and quantity of questioning students' knowledge of algebra concepts and skills in variables, change, equality, and equations in middle school students in seventh and eighth grades.
Dissertation
A Meta-Analysis on The Impact of Professional Development Programs for K-12 Mathematics Teachers on Students' Achievement
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis methodology was used to synthesize quantitatively and aggregate the results of the prior studies that have used scientific methods and reported numerical results, finding that three effective components (duration, content, and intervention modality) in professional development programs that have been found to have a positive relationship with students' achievement.
DissertationDOI
Teaching For Inclusion: The Effects Of A Professional Development Course For Secondary General And Special Education Mathematics Teachers For Increasing Teacher Knowledge And Self-Efficacy In Geometry
TL;DR: The study suggests that providing professional development for co-teachers can enhance collaboration as well as increase content knowledge and teacher self-efficacy.
References
More filters
Book
How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school.
TL;DR: New developments in the science of learning as mentioned in this paper overview mind and brain how experts differ from novices how children learn learning and transfer the learning environment curriculum, instruction and commnity effective teaching.
Journal ArticleDOI
What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers
TL;DR: The authors used a large-scale empirical comparison of effects of different characteristics of professional development on teachers' learning, and found that content knowledge, opportunities for active learning and coherence with other learning activities significantly affect teacher learning.
Journal ArticleDOI
Professional Development and Teacher Learning: Mapping the Terrain
TL;DR: Teacher professional development is essential to efforts to improve our schools and as discussed by the authors provides an overview of what we have learned as a field, about effective professional development programs and their impact on teacher learning and suggests some important directions and strategies for extending our knowledge into new territory of questions not yet explored.
Book
Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States
TL;DR: This book discusses subtraction with Regrouping, Multidigit Number Multiplication, and Teachers' Subject Matter Knowledge, as well as exploring the relationship between Perimeter and Area and Profound Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics.
Related Papers (5)
The pedagogical content knowledge in mathematics: pre- service primary mathematics teachers' perspectives in turkey
Elif Türnüklü,Sibel Yeşildere +1 more