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Classroom Teaching and Learning as the Focus for Improvement Research

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Title
Classroom Teaching and Learning as the Focus for Improvement Research
Alternate name
Chapter 7
Abstract/Description
In chapter 7, Paul Cobb and Anne Garrison Wilhelm (2022) focus on classrooms as contexts for improvement research. This chapter underscores the importance of grounding improvement research deeply in the day-to-day work of teachers and students in classrooms. This chapter points to the centrality of an instructional focus, as well as exploring what that implies for the work of improvement research. In doing so, the authors focus on what supports are needed for teachers to improve the quality of their instruction.

Cobb and Wilhelm (2022) argue that that ambitious and equitable instruction that will allow students to meet rigorous standards necessitates that teachers receive content-specific professional learning opportunities, which tend to be in short supply. Thus, they focus their attention on how to build school and district capacity for improving instruction using five cases that exemplify different kinds of support for teacher learning. While the cases range from large-scale examples such as the National Writing Project to a small-scale project involving a single school, they share important commonalities. The cases all involve researchers and practitioners partnering in some way to address a problem of practice, careful attention to broad applicability in their work, and an interest in addressing issues of equity in the classroom. A key lesson across the cases is that participatory support from accomplished colleagues is integral to substantially developing teachers’ instructional expertise.
[Quoted from Handbook p. 134]
Author/creator
Cobb, Paul
Wilhelm, Anne Garrison
Date
2022
In publication
The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education
Editor
Peurach, Donald J.
Russell, Jennifer Lin
Cohen-Vogel, Lora
Penuel, William R.
Pages
139-164
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Synthesis/Overview
IRE Approach/Concept
Equity
Instructional Improvement
Coaching
Participatory Supports
Material Supports
Featured case/project
inquiryHub (iHub)
National Writing Project (NWP)
College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP)
PRM2 Team
TN Mathematics Coaching Project
Hilltop Elementary School
Primary national context
United States
Language
en-us
Open access/full-text available
en No
ISBN
978-1-5381-5234-8
URL
Publication Webpage
Is part of
Section II: Contexts of Improvement Research in Education [Foundational Handbook]
Citation
Cobb, P., & Wilhelm, A. G. (2022). Classroom Teaching and Learning as the Focus for Improvement Research. In D. J. Peurach, J. L. Russell, L. Cohen-Vogel, & W. R. Penuel (Eds.), The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538152348/The-Foundational-Handbook-on-Improvement-Research-in-Education
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Handbook Chapter 19 Citations
The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education

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