Affective Aspects of Teachers: Transforming Their Mathematics Practice

9353820戈德史密斯在拟议的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。本研究将采用案例研究的方法，调查教师对改变他们的数学实践的感受，以及教师的情感状态如何影响这一过程本身。参加幼儿发展局一项新入门教师干预计划的五至六名教师将作为调查对象。这项研究将使用访谈协议和教师在课堂上和教师调查小组中的观察来收集数据。分析的重点将集中在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条件的类型；阐明情绪可以激励或干扰这一过程的方式；教师对自己的情感及其对其实践的影响的意识；以及教师改变过程的某些阶段是否存在具有特征的情感混合。研究结果将被撰写出来，以供发表并在相关的专业会议上展示。这项初步调查的结果还将用于制定未来计划，以便对这一问题进行更全面的调查。***

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. ***