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Jennifer Frawley Coniff – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Recent efforts to help teachers improve have centered on teacher evaluation. This qualitative dissertation explored how eight teachers from one middle school described and understood improving their practice Additionally, this study used purposeful developmental sampling to explore how, if at all, participants' way of knowing (meaning their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Improvement, Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers
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Popp, Jacquelynn S. – Action in Teacher Education, 2021
Although literature emphasizes the value of recursive reflection on problems of practice to facilitate teacher learning and change, few studies investigate teachers' iterative, evolving reflections on problems that emerge in their efforts to change their practice over time. This case study provides an in-depth, longitudinal analysis of one…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Behavior, Behavior Change
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Özgün-Koca, S. Asli; Lewis, Jennifer M.; Edwards, Thomas – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2020
Mathematical knowledge for teaching is a complex web of knowledge domains. In this article, we share findings from an 18-month professional development project that aimed to improve middle school mathematics teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) of proportional reasoning by focusing on the critical analysis of mathematical tasks and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Kargas, Christine Anestis; Stephens, Max – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
This study investigated how to improve the teaching of problem solving in a large Melbourne secondary school. Coaching was used to support and equip five teachers, some with limited experiences in teaching problem solving, with knowledge and strategies to build up students' problem solving and reasoning skills. The results showed increased…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 7, Foreign Countries
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Evans, Brian R. – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2012
It is important for teacher educators to understand new alternative certification middle and high school teachers' mathematical problem solving abilities and perceptions. Teachers in an alternative certification program in New York were enrolled in a proof-based algebra course. At the beginning and end of a semester participants were given a…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Alternative Teacher Certification, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics
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Newman, Denis; Finney, Pamela B.; Bell, Steve; Turner, Herb; Jaciw, Andrew P.; Zacamy, Jenna L.; Gould, Laura Feagans – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2012
This report presents the results of an experiment conducted in Alabama beginning in the 2006/07 school year, to determine the effectiveness of the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI), which aims to improve mathematics and science achievement in the state's K-12 schools. This study is the first randomized controlled trial…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Elementary Schools