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Conceptual Framework
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5. Selecting Appropriate Professional Development
Strategies and Materials
5.3. Presenting Information to Teachers
Many professional development providers would agree that incorporating some
of the newer professional development strategies, such as using videos to examine
classroom practice, is beneficial to the field. At the same time, there is a
growing concern that the recent aversion to didactic teaching has been an overreaction
and misinterpretation of the call for a broader array of instructional strategies.
Presenting information can be one of the more efficient methods of fostering
conceptual development, as long as the information is accurate, developmentally
appropriate, and accessible to the learner.
Quite a few of the materials in the TE-MAT database can be used to present
information to teachers, either as readings or as a source of material
for the professional development provider to use in presentations. For
example, the set of materials Children's
Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction (Carpenter et al.,
1999) includes a book of readings. Similarly, the NCTM Yearbook, Multicultural
and Gender Equity in the Mathematics Classroom (edited by Trentacosta,
1997) includes a series of articles on instruction of bilingual and linguistic
minorities.
Science
and Creationism (National Academy of Sciences, 1999) presents
a concise summary about the evidence supporting the theory of evolution,
which is suitable for readings. A companion volume, Teaching
about Evolution and the Nature of Science (National Academy
of Sciences, 1998) includes chapters that present information on topics
such as evolution and the nature of science, and evolution and the National
Science Education Standards.
Continue: 5.4.
Curriculum Implementation
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