PD3: Opening Classroom Doors as a Vehicle for Change
The hypothesis undergriding our work is: Building a learning community where teachers open their classroom doors, make their teaching public, and talk together about mathematics will lead to a pedagogy more focused on students and the mathematics they are learning and to ultimately 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 of what contributes to and what inhibits student understanding
more knowledgeable about the mathematics they are teaching
Teachers will recognize the need to
engage more students in learning mathematics
work jointly on what they teach to give students a coherent and connected understanding of mathematics
