Middle School Mathematics Design Team Teachers Evaluating the Center for Leadership in School Reform's Design Team Framework
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Authors
Dailey, Kimberly S.
Issue Date
2004-05
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
Keywords
team framework , Philip Schlechty , quality work
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine if the design team framework created
by Philip Schlechty and supported by his associates at the Center for Leadership in
School Reform (CLSR) has an impact on teacher creation of quality work. The
intervention involved four active participants and a facilitator participating in collegial
conversations to plan quality work lessons for eighth-grade mathematics classes. The
quality work lessons were then implemented into instruction in eighth-grade mathematics
classes.
In this study, data was collected through observations of collegial conversations
and classroom instruction, interviews, attitudinal surveys, pretest scores, and posttest
scores. Findings suggest the design team framework and collegial conversations have a
positive impact on the creation of quality work by teachers. Results also indicated an
increase in student engagement and achievement.
The results of the study were communicated to the learning community through a
multimedia presentation to teachers, administrators, and students as well as through a
visual display of student products from the implemented lessons. This study supported a
continuation of the implementation of the frameworks for instructional design created by
Philip Schlechty and supported by the Center for Leadership in School Reform.
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Citation
Publisher
Valdosta State University
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