Volume
11
Issue
1
Abstract
This paper reports on three differing approaches to ascertaining the professional learning (PL) needs of teachers of mathematics that were used in three PL projects. In each case the approach used was constrained to some extent by the project brief, practical considerations, and stakeholders’ preferences and abilities to contribute to determining the most useful focus of the PL. Nevertheless, there were consistent efforts to heed the advice in the literature about effective PL focusing on teachers’ needs in their particular contexts. The results of each approach are described and lessons about effective ways to identify mathematics teachers’ PL needs, and reasons for which teachers might be unwilling or unable to articulate their needs, are drawn from an overall analysis of the findings in relation to relevant literature on effective PL and teacher belief change.
First Page
83
Last Page
108
Recommended Citation
Beswick, Kim
(2014)
"What teachers’ want: Identifying mathematics teachers’ professional learning needs,"
The Mathematics Enthusiast: Vol. 11
:
No.
1
, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1293
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/tme/vol11/iss1/6
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.54870/1551-3440.1293
