From Caterpillar to Butterfly: A Mathematics Teacher's Struggle To Grow Professionally.

Lawson, Doris P.

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ERIC Number: EJ556189

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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From Caterpillar to Butterfly: A Mathematics Teacher's Struggle To Grow Professionally.

Lawson, Doris P.

Teaching Children Mathematics, v4 n3 p140-43 Nov 1997

Describes a mathematics teacher's experience and change from a traditional behaviorist dispenser of knowledge to a constructivist facilitator of meaning during professional development. Compares the stages of teacher development metaphorically to the stages of a butterfly. Contains 11 references. (ASK)

Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Improvement

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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