Teachers need professional development geared specifically to the curricula they teach, not only generic teaching skills or general content knowledge¶

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Subclaims¶

q1 i? A frequent refrain in calls for professional development improvement is that much training focuses on generic teaching skills or general content knowledge while teachers need training on delivering their specific curricula. → Center for Civic Education 2018

Evidence¶

Center for Civic Education 2018¶

Center for Civic Education, Jeff Archer, Jeffrey Max. (2018). Connecting Professional Development to the Curricula: Insights from the Center for Civic Education. Insights Brief. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/connecting-professional-development-to-the-curricula-insights-from-the-center-for-civic-education

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The brief's framing statement, offered as an argument rather than a tested result: it reports no data, effect size, or study, presenting the need for curriculum-specific professional development as a premise motivating the work.

"a frequent refrain is that teachers need more training geared specifically to the curricula they teach. The argument is that much of the training teachers receive is focused on generic teaching skills or general content knowledge"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• Professional development needs roughly 50 hours in a specific area, and long-term content-specific support outperforms one-shot sessions — a narrower finding that bears on this claim