Explore Jordanian mathematics teacher's perception of their professional needs Related to Mathematical Proficiency

What teachers’ want: Identifying mathematics teachers’ professional learning needs

The Professional Development Needs of Primary Teachers in Teaching Mathematics

Online vs Face-To-Face Engagement of Computing Teachers for their Professional Development Needs

After a period of intense activity in preparation for the transition, Computing has been implemented in the curriculum in England for all children from ages 5-16. In this paper we investigate the aspects of professional development that Computing teachers are utilising. We conducted a survey of over 900 Computing teachers in England and use the results to reflect on the benefits of face-to-face...

Influencing factors on integrating professional learning of secondary mathematics teachers with the analysis, interpretation and decision-making of their teaching

The present study is part of a bigger research project and its purpose was to investigate the influencing factors on integrating professional learning of secondary mathematics teachers with the ways in which they analyze, interpret and make decisions regarding their teaching. For the fine-grained analysis of the first layer of data, phenomenography method was used. Nine teachers were interviewe...

Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers, Volume 46, Number 5

General Background “You can’t teach what you don’t know”, but too many of our mathematics teachers may be doing exactly that: teaching what they don’t know. This is one of the key findings of the landmark 1983 education document A Nation at Risk. What was true back in 1983 is even more true today. Since the only way to achieve better mathematics education is to have better mathematics teachers,...