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标题：Supporting Teachers’ Professional Learning at a Distance: A Model for Change in At-risk Contexts
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作者：Warren, Elizabeth A ; Quine, Janine ; DeVries, Eva 等
期刊名称：Australian Journal of Teacher Education
印刷版ISSN：1835-517X
出版年度：2012
卷号：37
期号：6
页码：2
出版社：Edith Cowan University
摘要：This paper examines the effectiveness of a professional learning model developed to support early years teachers in rural and remote communities in Queensland as they began to implement the Australian Curriculum in Mathematics. The data are drawn from 35 teachers at the initial stage of a large, four year longitudinal study RoleM (Representations, oral language and engagement in Mathematics). The particular aims of the longitudinal study are to (a) identify effective pedagogical practices that may assist young Indigenous Australian students to negotiate Western mathematical understanding, and (b) investigate professional learning models that best support teachers within this context. The data was collected throughout the first year of the study. The findings indicate that as the year progressed participating teachers experienced significant and positive changes in: a) their attitudes, beliefs and pedagogical practices in relation to teaching mathematics; b)their expectations of student learning in mathematics; c) their confidence levels to be innovative, creative and experimental implementers of the new national mathematics curriculum; and d) their ongoing development from novice teacher to expert.
关键词：Rural and remote schools; teacher change; Indigenous students; mathematics; early years; professional development models