Although the effects of Lesson study (LS), a teacher collaborative professional development approach, on teacher professional learning and students learning have been widely documented, the theories for understanding of LS has just emerged as a research field. Interconnected Model of Teacher Professional Growth (IMPG) and Documentational Approach…

The purpose of the paper is to highlight ways in which mathematics educators are supported through school inspection. The aim of this paper is to establish whether mathematics educators are adequately supported through school inspection to address mathematics problems within South African classes. For this goal to be achieved, governments have…

As a technology-based approach to learning, flipped classrooms have lately stood out on various stages and fields of education. As opposed to the traditional education, the flipped classroom enables learners to watch the content videos presented by the course teacher in advance, and to come to classes with some preliminary work to engage in…

Teacher's in-service training is considered a lifelong learning activity to gain the knowledge, skills, and competencies they will need throughout their careers and to enable them to perform their profession more effectively. The surveys reveal the existence of various problems in these in-service training activities. This study aims to examine…

We examined changes in how mathematics coaches facilitated debriefing conversations after learning about a debrief conversational structure we created based on the principles of our content-focused coaching model. We compared participant coaches' first debriefing conversation, which occurred prior to learning about the debrief conversational…

This mixed-method study examines the continuing implementation and critical components of an innovative professional learning system in early learning coalitions throughout the state of Florida. This professional learning system consists of: (a) a multi-tiered program of blended (online and face-to-face) courses for early learning practitioners;…

This study investigated how teachers' professional learning is influenced by their implicit goals and beliefs. A path model that attempts to explain variation in teachers' professional learning was tested. A new variable, teacher mindset, was developed to operationalize teachers' conceptions about teaching ability. The model explores how teacher…

'Out-of-field teaching' refers to the practice of assigning teachers to teach subjects that do not match their training or education -- an international phenomenon that seems particularly prevalent in mathematics. This paper reports on a study evaluating the impact of a national professional learning program for out-of-field secondary mathematics…

Schools are now situated within a dominant public policy regime that is demanding compliance and standardisation, at a time when the achievement of success for all students demands a capacity at the school level to design and deliver an approach that embeds "an ongoing process of professional learning for teachers" (Caldwell, 2014, p.…

Leading whole-class discussion requires teachers to balance careful preparation with improvisation based on students' contributions. How do teachers learn to engage in the difficult work of orchestrating a rich and, by nature, improvised classroom discussion? How might training in improvisational theatre affect teachers' facilitation of…

This study ascertained the principals management support practices to promote teachers instructional improvement for sustainable development in secondary education in Anambra State. Two specific purposes were formulated and two research questions guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The study was conducted in the six…

A demand exists to better prepare elementary teachers to improve math content and pedagogical competence to teach math to English language Learners (ELLs). The Quality Teachers for English Learners grant-supported teacher training program addresses the demand by examining if program graduates adopt linguistically and culturally responsive math…

Given the distinctive characteristics of Japanese mathematics lessons found by the international studies and the subsequent focus of the attention to Lesson Study in mathematics education community, the author discusses the relationships between the scientific studies and improvement of mathematics teaching and learning from an insider's…

The research reported here uses a pre/post-test model and stimulated recall interviews to assess teachers' statistical reasoning about comparing distributions, when enrolled in a graduate-level statistics education course. We discuss key aspects of the course design aimed at improving teachers' learning and teaching of statistics, and the…

Lesson Study has captured the attention of many international educators with its promise of improved student learning and sustained teacher growth. Lesson Study, however, has cultural underpinnings that a simple transference model overlooks. A culturally embedded approach attends to the existing cultural orientations and values of host schools.…