Discussion: A Buried Treasure Surfaces Through Professional Development

posted by: Laura Harnish on May 17, 2003 at 5:42PM subject: more on content, standards Thanks for your comments. Your last point is right on. The deveopers of our project had lots of reasons to provide content courses. The teachers however did not understand why they were in these courses. In some ways our state standards did provide a little bit of help. The standards have both an algebra and geometry strand. By reading the standards, teachers can see how algebraic concepts are actually conceptualized in the primary grades. I like to believe that this helped the teachers from a purpose in their own mind for taking the classes. I'm not sure though; so, I will ask some of my colleagues who actually taught the content classes to comment further on this.

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• Matheamtics Content Knowledge - posted by Judith Fonzi on 05/13/03 - 05:24
  • professional development targeting knowledge - posted by Laura Harnish on 05/13/03 - 11:04
    • More on content - posted by James Stigler on 05/17/03 - 03:33
      •   more on content, standards - posted by Laura Harnish on 05/17/03 - 05:42  
      • What are the incentives to study mathematics? - posted by Deborah Ball on 05/21/03 - 06:08
        • back to data - posted by Laura Harnish on 05/21/03 - 11:55