Teacher Education Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
Publication Source
Elementary School Journal
Abstract
This study reports on 2 upper-elementary teachers' learning through their use of potentially educative mathematics curriculum materials without additional professional development. 41 observations of the teachers' mathematics lessons and 28 interviews of the teachers were collected from October to May of an academic year. The case study analyses indicated that curriculum materials can be an effective professional development tool, but perhaps not for all teachers. 1 teacher's instructional focus and rationale for instructional practices remained stable throughout the school year, whereas the other's changed dramatically. The cases illustrated the teachers' dynamic and divergent nature of opportunities to learn through reading materials and enacting lessons. Findings also indicated that consideration of the interaction between beliefs integral to teachers' identity and those that are targets for change may illuminate responses to potentially educative curriculum materials. Teacher learning is widely acknowledged as critical to educational reforms.
Although textbooks and other curriculum materials are ubiquitous in American schools (Woodward & Elliot, 1990), researchers are just beginning to investigate the contributions of curriculum materials designed to support teacher learning (Remillard, 2000; Schneider & Krajcik, 2000). The purpose of this article is to report a study of two elementary teachers' use of and learning from curriculum materials designed to support teacher learning in addition to providing a sequence of mathematics lessons for students.
Inclusive pages
287-311
ISBN/ISSN
0013-5984
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2003 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
Volume
103
Issue
3
Peer Reviewed
yes
eCommons Citation
Collopy, Rachel M. B., "Curriculum Materials as a Professional Development Tool: How a Mathematics Textbook Affected Two Teachers' Learning" (2003). Teacher Education Faculty Publications. 16.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/edt_fac_pub/16
Included in
Elementary Education and Teaching Commons, Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching Commons, Other Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons, Pre-Elementary, Early Childhood, Kindergarten Teacher Education Commons, Secondary Education and Teaching Commons
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