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Situating Teachers' Instructional Practices in the Institutional Setting of the School and District.
Peer reviewedCobb, Paul; McClain, Kay; Lamberg, Teruni de Silva; Dean, Chrystal – Educational Researcher, 2003
Describes an analytic approach for situating teachers' instructional practices within the institutional settings of their schools and districts, examining an ongoing collaboration with urban teachers to illustrate the approach and its usefulness in guiding the development of analyses that inform such collaborations. The approach involves…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts
Download full textMcClain, Kay; Cobb, Paul – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
In this paper we document the importance of institutional context in both constraining and enabling the work of mathematics teachers. We build from our current and ongoing collaborative efforts with middle-grades mathematics teachers to provide an analytic approach and resulting analysis that clarifies the critical role of institutional context in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers, Educational Change, Mathematics Instruction
