Affective Aspects of Teachers: Transforming Their Mathematics Practice

9353820金匠 在拟议的12个月项目中，教育发展中心，公司。(EDC)将进行一项研究项目，旨在调查情感在数学教学中教师发展过程中的作用。 本研究将采用个案研究的方法，探讨教师在进行数学实践改变时的感受，以及教师的情感状态如何影响数学实践过程本身。 本研究以五、六位参与教育发展中心一项新教师介入计画的教师为研究对象。 这项研究将使用两个采访协议和观察教师在他们的教室和教师调查小组收集数据。 分析将侧重于阐明教师在努力改变其实践时所经历的各种感受;激发教师强烈情绪反应的各种条件;阐明情绪激发或干扰这一过程的方式;教师对自己的情感及其对实践的影响的认识;以及是否有“标志性”的情感混合，表征教师变化过程的某些阶段。 研究的结果将被编写出来，以便在相关的专业会议上发表和介绍。 这一初步调查的结果还将用于制定今后对这一问题进行更全面调查的计划。 ***

9353820 Goldsmith In the proposed 12 month project, Education Development Center, Inc.(EDC) will undertake a research project designed to investigate the role of affect in the process of teacher development in mathematics instruction. The research will use a case study methodology to investigate how it feels for teachers to undertake to change their mathematics practice, and how teachers' affective states influence the process itself. Five or six teachers participating in a newly beginning teacher intervention project at EDC will serve as the subjects for the investigation. The study will use both interview protocols and observations of teachers in their classrooms and in teacher inquiry groups to gather data. Analysis will focus on articulating the kinds of feelings teachers experience as they work to transform their practice; the kinds of conditions that stimulate strong emotional responses in teachers; articulating the ways in which emotions can energize or interfere with the process; teachers' awareness of their own affect and its influence on their practice; and whether there are "signature" emotional mixes that characterize certain phases of the process of teacher change. Outcomes of the study will be written up for publication and presentation at relevant professional meetings. The results of this preliminary investigation will also be used to develop future plans for more comprehensive investigations of this issue. ***