Targeted professional development to enhance content specific workgroups

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dc.contributor.advisor	Gainsburg, Julie	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pernin, Patricia	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Johnson, Peggy E.	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Smith-DeVille, Gina	en_US
dc.contributor.department	California State University, Northridge. Department of Education Leadership And Policy Studies	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2011-11-29T05:24:03Z
dc.date.available	2011-11-29T05:24:03Z
dc.date.copyright	2011
dc.date.issued	2011-11-28
dc.date.updated	2011-11-29T05:24:03Z
dc.description.abstract	The promise that traditional professional development from an outside expert would improve the instructional practices of all mathematics teachers has not been realized in many school districts. To fix the problem some districts have turned to content-specific collaborative workgroups that use a lesson study protocol. The collaborative model assumes that teachers are proficient in their subject area. This assumption was not true for the elementary school teachers’ in the study. This study provided a targeted professional development (TPD), specific to the needs of a group of fifth and sixth grade teachers that increased teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) and impacted their instructional practices in their classroom. The five teacher case studies and one workgroup study provided the data for analyzing the growth of the participants. The findings suggested that the MKT of all of the teachers was increased and the instructional practices of some of the participants were impacted. The increased MKT developed in the TPD appeared to enhance the discussions within the workgroup sessions.	en_US
dc.description.degree	Ed.D.	en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibility	by Patricia Jean Pernin	en_US
dc.description	Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-117)	en_US
dc.format.extent	x, 196 leaves	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/802
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	California State University, Northridge	en_US
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dc.subject.other	Dissertations, Academic -- CSUN -- Education -- Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.	en_US
dc.subject	teacher workgroups
dc.subject	professional development
dc.subject	mathematical knowledge for teaching
dc.subject	MKT
dc.subject	elementary mathematics
dc.title	Targeted professional development to enhance content specific workgroups	en_US
dc.type	Dissertation	en_US

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