Math Pathways & Pitfalls: Capturing What Works for Anytime Anyplace Professional Development

WestEd的研究人员和开发人员正在开发、实地测试和评估十个在线专业发展模块，这些模块以研究型教学原则和提高成绩的数学材料为基础。这些模块提供交互式学习机会，包括真实课堂视频演示、模拟和脚手架实施。专业发展模块的开发建立在NSF支持下为中学生开发的数学路径和陷阱(MPP)教学模块的基础上。通过使用这些模块提供的专业发展是基于网络的(而不是面对面的)，在学年期间分块提供，并立即应用于课堂(而不是暑期专业发展和学年应用)，并明确地模拟如何将关键教学原则应用于常规数学课程(而不是期望教师自发地提取和应用原则)。该项目通过一个实验设计研究了这些模块对教学实践的影响，实验设计包括20名处理教师和20名对照教师。数据收集自教师问卷、课堂观察和观察后访谈。

Researchers and developers at WestEd are developing, field-testing, and evaluating ten online professional development modules anchored in research-based teaching principles and achievement-boosting mathematics materials. The modules provide interactive learning opportunities featuring real classroom video demonstrations, simulations, and scaffolded implementation. The professional development module development builds on the Math Pathways and Pitfalls (MPP) instructional modules for middle school students developed with NSF support. The professional development provided through the use of these modules is web-based (rather than face-to-face), is provided in chunks during the school year and immediately applied in the classroom (rather than summer professional development and school year application), and explicitly models ways to apply key teaching principles to regular mathematics lessons (rather than expecting teachers to extract and apply principles spontaneously).The project studies the impact of the modules on teaching practice with an experimental design that involves 20 treatment teachers and 20 control teachers. Data are gathered from teacher questionnaires, classroom observations, and post-observation interviews.