Teachers’ Professional Development and Students’ Mathematics Performance: Findings from TIMSS 2007

Teachers' professional development and the elementary mathematics classroom

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The Professional Development Needs of Primary Teachers in Teaching Mathematics

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,...

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

The Effects of Professional Development on Elementary Students’ Mathematics Achievement

This paper describes the effects of a professional development (PD) program – Developing Mathematical Thinking – on student achievement. Six Title I elementary schools with similar demographics, within one school district, were chosen to participate as either a treatment or comparison school. Three schools were chosen to participate in professional development that incorporates effective PD rec...