The Covid-19 pandemic has posed various challenges particularly in the education sector where ‘new normal’ experience is all about online interaction and distance learning. As health protocols enforce physical distancing measures, actual personal engagements are limited. teacher professional development (TPD) becomes a melting pot of best practices strategies that work, teachers receive perspec...

We examined the impact of a state mandated K-12 mathematics professional development course on knowledge, self-efficacy and beliefs of nearly 4,000 teachers and administrators. Participants completed the Mathematical Thinking for Instruction course, emphasizing student thinking, problem-solving, and content knowledge specific to mathematics instruction. Inventories utilizing items from the Lear...

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We propose to study how to provide, on a large scale, the professional development and continuing support teachers need to improve student achievement in mathematics. Over five years of a longitudinal study, we will examine how the use of specific research-based instructional strategies in the classroom— supported by professional development and highly rated curriculum materials—relate to lasti...

This study explored the professional development experiences of 28 practicing teachers in 10 Chicago suburban schools involved in a two-year technology supported Problem-Based Learning curriculum development effort. Asynchronous computer-mediated communications (CMC) were featured as teacher communication tools of the project. The computer-mediated discourse produced by the teachers was compare...