Supporting In-Service Teachers' Teaching Knowledge With Professional Development Featuring Digital Educative Curriculum Materials

• In Event: 61.086 - Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: 61.086-6 - Roundtable 2

Abstract

We developed a type of design-based research investigation to explore the potential of digital educative curriculum materials to support in-service teachers’ professional teaching knowledge. Throughout the 2013-14 academic year we supported a secondary school’s full complement of social studies teachers with an innovative professional development program. Specifically, we asked Can sustained, collaborative experiences with digital educative curriculum materials in a supportive professional development context encourage the development of professional teaching knowledge? Analysis of participant-created materials, teaching observations, and pre/post-intervention interviews suggested that features of our program supported participants’ development of a more professional teaching knowledge.

Authors

• Cory Callahan, The University of Alabama

• John W. Saye, Auburn University