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

在过去的十年中，教师专业发展强调的模式是嵌入工作，随着时间的推移，并侧重于课堂教学的性质。 其中一种模式--教学辅导--的有效性才刚刚开始被研究。拟议会议的目标是汇集研究人员，数学教练和教练的工作人员开发人员，使他们能够相互了解他们的工作，开发新的研究问题，获得新的教练工具和策略，并建立一个专业的网络通信和合议查询会议后通过电子通信和文件共享。

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.