Mathematics Professional Learning Communities: Opportunities and Challenges in an Elementary School Context

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School-based professional learning communities (PLCs) have become an important means of “building capacity” among teachers in a wide variety of areas, including those with a subject focus. Very often, these PLCs are mandated by administration, and operate under an established structure. This paper describes an attempt by a mathematics coordinator and school level “lead’ teachers to establish relatively informal PLCs in mathematics in an effort to improve mathematics teaching, and thus student learning, in an environment that focused very much on literacy. The four PLCs created are discussed, as are the opportunities and the challenges that go with the relative freedom offered to the teachers. Sustainability is a central challenge to these groups.

Object Details

• ISBN: 37172712X

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Proceedings of the tenth International Conference Models in Developing Mathematics Education. - Dresden : Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, 2009. - S. 176 - 179
• Related object and literature: urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-79236 ; qucosa:1658

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Mathematik

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Franks, Douglas
• Event: Herstellung
• (who): HTW Dresden

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-79785
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