Improving Teaching Does Improve Teachers
- 17 October 2012
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Teacher Education
- Vol. 63 (5), 368-375
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487112446633
Abstract
The authors comment on the article by Morris and Hiebert in three ways. First, they add thoughts about why improvement efforts often focus on teachers, rather than teaching. Second, they offer evidence from U.S. lesson study research that focus on teaching can improve both students’ learning and teachers’ learning. Finally, they suggest that the instructional products and common assessments advocated by Hiebert and Morris are not sufficient, and that they need to be accompanied by practice-based, collegial learning in which teachers build shared knowledge and commitments for the hard work of improvement. Their research indicates that lesson study focuses on teaching, but improves teachers as well, increasing mathematical knowledge and beliefs that support instructional improvement, as well as improving student learning.Keywords
This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
- Combining the Development of Practice and the Practice of Development in Teacher EducationThe Elementary School Journal, 2009
- Improving mathematics instruction through lesson study: a theoretical model and North American caseJournal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2009
- Redefining teaching, re‐imagining teacher educationTeachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
- Knowledge growth of mathematics teachers during professional activity based on the task of lesson explainingJournal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2007
- Qualified Pedagogical Reflection as a Way to Improve Mathematics EducationJournal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2006
- Learning from Self-Study: Gaining Knowledge about How Fourth Graders Move from Relational Description to Algebraic GeneralizationHarvard Educational Review, 2005
- Teachers' Orientations toward Mathematics Curriculum Materials: Implications for Teacher LearningJournal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2004
- Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation in Education: Reconsidered Once AgainReview of Educational Research, 2001
- Planned educational change in Japan: the case of elementary science instructionJournal of Education Policy, 1997
- Getting to Scale with Good Educational PracticeHarvard Educational Review, 1996