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• Title: Transformation of Teacher Attitude and Approach to Math Instruction Through Collaborative Action Research.
• Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
• Release Date : January 22, 2006
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 225 KB

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What causes a teacher to change and grow? What factors in professional development enable a teacher to apprehend new instructional approaches and new attitudes toward practice and toward students? As a university professor who has taught at the teacher education, masters, and doctoral levels, the life of teaching has been an enduring interest, particularly teaching that occurs in K-12 settings. From my own work as a K-12 teacher and administrator to my earliest studies of effective teaching and in my own university teaching, I have been interested in the complex practice of teaching and in how to make the practice more effective for student learning and more satisfying and fulfilling for the teacher. During my K-12 teaching and administrative years, my experience with professional development was limited to what is commonly known as the "training model" (Sparks & Loucks-Horsley, 1990). Zeichner (2003) reports that the training model is the predominant professional development model in the U.S. and is usually a "one-shot, one day or even briefer experience" (p. 301) that is selected and planned by someone other than the individual teacher. It was not until I taught a master's level course, Research for Educators, that I became familiar with the professional development experience called action research. Because in this course I guided classroom teachers in action research projects, I perceived a need to experience the process more "first hand." Thus, I engaged in a yearlong action research project with a fifth-grade teacher who happened to be my daughter.

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