GROW teacher professional development programme¶
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Evidence · 2 claims (1 for, 1 against) · 1 study (1 causal),q3· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study
Description¶
A year-long professional development programme run by educational consultants and school-based project coaches to develop primary teachers' competency in differentiated mathematics instruction through team meetings, coaching, lesson observation, and school-level implementation planning.
Components¶
- GROW teacher professional development programme for differentiated mathematics instruction: The GROW PD programme is a multi-component, year-long professional development intervention designed following characteristics of effective teacher PD from the literature. It consisted of three main components: PD for all teachers (ten three-hour team meetings across the schoolyear, six led by educational consultants and four by school-based project coaches, using interactive lectures, practical exercises, and adapted Lesson Study), additional training for internal project coaches (five regional meetings, coaching and lesson-observation duties, follow-up and train-the-trainer packages), and active involvement of the principal (intake meetings, intervision meetings, a school-level implementation plan). Materials were organised as a toolbox so schools could adapt the focus to their needs. (Prast et al. (2018))
Claims¶
- Teacher PD on differentiated instruction produced a small significant positive effect on mathematics achievement growth in Year 1 (β = 0.15, p = .007) [+M]
- In Year 2, the PD programme showed neither short-term effects for newly trained teachers nor long-term effects for previously trained teachers [-M]
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Key Sources¶
- Prast, E. J., Van de Weijer-Bergsma, E., Kroesbergen, E. H., & Van Luit, J. E. H. (2018). Differentiated instruction in primary mathematics: Effects of teacher professional development on student achievement. Learning and Instruction, 54, 22-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.01.009
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A year-long professional development programme run by educational consultants and school-based project coaches to develop primary teachers' competency in differentiated mathematics instruction through team meetings, coaching, lesson observation, and school-level implementation planning. |
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