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Neumayer DePiper, Jill; Louie, Josephine; Nikula, Johannah; Buffington, Pamela; Tierney-Fife, Peter; Driscoll, Mark – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2021
Teachers' confidence and facility with strategies that position and support students who are English learners (ELs) as active participants in middle grades mathematics classrooms are key to facilitating ELs' mathematics learning. The Visual Access to Mathematics (VAM) project developed and studied teacher professional development (PD) focused on…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Self Efficacy, Teaching Methods, Student Needs
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Seago, Nanette; Jacobs, Jennifer; Driscoll, Mark – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2010
Although there are increasing numbers of professional development (PD) materials intended to foster teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching within the topics of number and algebra, little attention has been given to geometry. In this article we describe the Learning and Teaching Geometry project's approach to the development of PD materials…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Geometry, Educational Change, Middle School Teachers
Driscoll, Mark J. – Principal Leadership, 2008
Because the author and his colleagues at the Center for Leadership and Learning Communities believe that instructional coaching is one of the most exciting developments in education in a long time, they have examined the questions this new strategy has raised for education leaders: Should coaching replace some traditional forms of teacher…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Development, Coaching (Performance), Instructional Improvement