Making Teaching Public in a Math Centered Learning Environment: What Did We Learn?

Authors: Gail Burrill, James King, Catherine Giesbrecht

Our hypotheses is that building a learning community where teachers jointly think about their teaching, talk together about mathematics, open their classroom doors, and make their teaching public will lead to a pedagogy more focused on students and the mathematics they are learning and ultimately to higher student achievement.

   Teachers' conversations will:

• become more focused on mathematics
• address issues of teaching and learning to a greater extent

    Teachers will

• become more observant about what contributes to and what inhibits student understanding
• more knowledgeable about the mathematics they are teaching
• engage all of their students in learning mathematics

    All students will

• perform at a higher level on both school-based measures and state assessments
• be more engaged in mathematics
• be motivated to do mathematics including taking more and higher level courses