Professional Development

This resource collection offers practical measures and guidance for instructional improvement in mathematics teaching. These include measures for use in classrooms, collaborative professional learning, and one-on-one coaching.

This resource collection offers practical measures and guidance for instructional improvement in mathematics teaching. These include measures for use in classrooms, collaborative professional learning, and one-on-one coaching.

This library contains lessons and tools designed for preservice teachers that focus on argumentation, or quality talk, in high school science.

This site offers professional learning materials for elementary teachers and teacher leaders, including a Responsive Mathematics Teaching Toolkit and Lesson Planning and Analyzing Tools.

This study investigated upper elementary teachers’ framings of their students’ mathematical thinking in written across the three component skills of noticing. Drawing on a situated perspective, the research examines the influences of teachers’ culturalhistorical backgrounds, attitudes, dispositions, interactions with students, and other situated elements of teaching on noticing mathematical thinking. Interviews used a think-aloud method to capture real-time framing as teachers observed children’s thinking on the same problem, using written work from their own and unfamiliar classrooms.

Children who live in under-resourced communities and attend under-resourced schools deserve access to high-quality teachers and educational opportunities to support their success and well-being. This study emerged from a professional development (PD) for urban teachers working in such schools, to expand educational opportunities for elementary students through outdoor science teaching.

Mathematics education research tends to center on what Mathematics Teacher Educators-Researchers (MTERs) work on or the people (teachers and students) they work with. Rarely, research in mathematics education focuses on MTERs working with one another. This article decenters from these traditional foci and instead examines a heterogeneous group of MTERs describing their research collaborations for professional development efforts on social justice issues in mathematics education.

Situated in the context of advanced placement (AP) reform in the United States, we investigated profiles of teachers’ motivation for participating in professional development (PD) courses in a two-cohort sample of n_t1 = 2,369 and n_t2 = 2,170 chemistry teachers via multilevel latent class analysis. In addition, the study investigated to what extent profile membership was related to factors at the teacher, school, and PD levels.

In a traditional lecturing environment, students possess limited agency in accepting or rejecting information provided by teachers. A higher level of student agency involves opportunities and actively identifying uncertainties and collaborating with peers to deepen understanding within the classroom community. Teachers play a crucial role in guiding students through sensemaking by addressing uncertainties and assisting in solution development. Student uncertainty is recognized as a pedagogical resource, engaging them in sensemaking and enhancing agency levels.