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，现场测试和评估十个在线专业发展模块，这些模块以研究为基础的教学原则和促进数学成就的材料为基础。 这些模块提供了互动学习的机会，具有真实的课堂视频演示，模拟和脚手架实施。 专业发展模块的开发建立在数学途径和陷阱（MPP）与NSF支持开发的中学生教学模块。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），在学年中分块提供，并立即在课堂上应用（而不是暑期专业发展和学年申请），并明确地模拟了将关键教学原则应用于常规数学课程的方法（而不是期望教师自发地提取和应用原则）。该项目研究了模块对教学实践的影响，实验设计涉及20名治疗教师和20名控制教师。 数据来自教师问卷调查、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.