Incremental and Innovative Approaches to Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers

Professional development researchers and teacher educators have been striving to improve mathematics instruction for decades, but in many places, there has been an inertia of procedurally focused mathematics instruction that has been incredibly resistant to change. Even when specific professional de...

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description Professional development researchers and teacher educators have been striving to improve mathematics instruction for decades, but in many places, there has been an inertia of procedurally focused mathematics instruction that has been incredibly resistant to change. Even when specific professional development (PD) efforts have found success in certain contexts or with certain teachers, it has proven difficult to sustain and disseminate these instructional improvements on a broader scale. This Special Issue on PD for mathematics teachers includes contributions reflecting on the limitations of transformational PD (PD that seeks profound changes in mathematics instruction) and studies on innovative and incremental approaches to PD striving to make instructional changes more manageable for teachers in their busy lives and complex educational contexts, and perhaps thus more likely to sustain and spread. Some of the featured research on incremental PD breaks down transformational practices into specific pieces, whereas other studies provide teachers with choices of smaller facets of teaching upon which to focus. Overall, this Special Issue urges the field to consider how incremental approaches to PD for mathematics teachers might address some of the limitations of typical transformational efforts.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1655722025-08-12T09:56:17Z Incremental and Innovative Approaches to Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers Otten, Samuel Candela, Amber G. De Araujo, Zandra Mathematics education mathematics teaching teacher professional development teacher education theories of teacher change instructional improvement instructional change teacher learning thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education Professional development researchers and teacher educators have been striving to improve mathematics instruction for decades, but in many places, there has been an inertia of procedurally focused mathematics instruction that has been incredibly resistant to change. Even when specific professional development (PD) efforts have found success in certain contexts or with certain teachers, it has proven difficult to sustain and disseminate these instructional improvements on a broader scale. This Special Issue on PD for mathematics teachers includes contributions reflecting on the limitations of transformational PD (PD that seeks profound changes in mathematics instruction) and studies on innovative and incremental approaches to PD striving to make instructional changes more manageable for teachers in their busy lives and complex educational contexts, and perhaps thus more likely to sustain and spread. Some of the featured research on incremental PD breaks down transformational practices into specific pieces, whereas other studies provide teachers with choices of smaller facets of teaching upon which to focus. Overall, this Special Issue urges the field to consider how incremental approaches to PD for mathematics teachers might address some of the limitations of typical transformational efforts. 2025-08-12T09:56:15Z 2025-08-12T09:56:15Z 2025 book ONIX_20250812T110751_9783725840991_327 9783725840991 9783725841004 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/165572 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/10992 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-7258-4100-4 10.3390/books978-3-7258-4100-4 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783725840991 9783725841004 218 open access
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Incremental and Innovative Approaches to Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers
title Incremental and Innovative Approaches to Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers
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title_short Incremental and Innovative Approaches to Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers
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mathematics teaching
teacher professional development
teacher education
theories of teacher change
instructional improvement
instructional change
teacher learning
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