NCEE EVALUATION BRIEF November 2016 DOES CONTENT-FOCUSED TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORK? FINDINGS FROM THREE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES STUDIES
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Three recent random assignment studies from the Institute of Education Sciences evaluated teacher professional development (PD) programs in different grades in reading and mathematics. The PD examined in the three studies emphasized building teachers’ content knowledge and their knowledge about content-specific pedagogy. The PD, which was based mostly on commercially available programs, combined summer institutes with periodic teacher meetings and coaching during the school year. Each program was substantially more intensive than the typical PD offered to teachers in study districts. All three studies examined the impact of the PD programs on teachers’ content knowledge and instructional practice, as well as their students’ achievement. The key findings from the three studies are as follows:
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