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，随着时间的推移保持下去，并专注于课堂教学的性质。其中一种模式--教学指导--的有效性才刚刚开始研究。拟议会议的目标是将研究人员、数学教练和教练员开发人员聚集在一起，以便他们能够相互通报自己的工作，开发新的研究问题，获得新的指导工具和战略，并建立一个专业网络，以便在会议结束后通过电子通信和文件共享维持沟通和大学调查。

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.