Instructional Coaching in Mathematics: Researchers and Practitioners Learning from Each Other -- A Three-day Conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, March, 2007

在过去的十年里，教师专业发展强调的是嵌入工作的模式，随着时间的推移而持续，关注课堂教学的本质。其中一种模式——教学辅导——的有效性才刚刚开始被研究。会议的目标是将研究人员、数学教练和教练员的开发人员聚集在一起，使他们能够相互了解他们的工作，为研究开发新的问题，获得新的教练工具和策略，并建立一个专业的交流网络，并在会议结束后通过电子通信和文件共享来维持学院的研究。

During the past decade teacher professional development has emphasized models that are job-embedded, sustained over time and focused on the nature of classroom teaching. The effectiveness of one of these models -- instructional coaching -- is just beginning to be researched. The goal of the proposed conference is to bring together researchers, mathematics coaches and staff developers of coaches so they can inform each other about their work, develop new questions for research, acquire new coaching tools and strategies and build a professional network for communication and collegial inquiry to be sustained after the conference by electronic communication and file-sharing.