Making Teaching Public in a Math Centered Learning Environment: What Did We Learn?
Authors: Gail Burrill, James King, Catherine Giesbrecht

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Our hypotheses is that building a learning community where teachers jointly think about their teaching, talk together about mathematics, open their classroom doors, and make their teaching public will lead to a pedagogy more focused on students and the mathematics they are learning and ultimately to higher student achievement.

   Teachers' conversations will:

  • become more focused on mathematics
  • address issues of teaching and learning to a greater extent

    Teachers will

  • become more observant about what contributes to and what inhibits student understanding
  • more knowledgeable about the mathematics they are teaching
  • engage all of their students in learning mathematics

    All students will

  • perform at a higher level on both school-based measures and state assessments
  • be more engaged in mathematics
  • be motivated to do mathematics including taking more and higher level courses