Implementing Reform: Teachers’ Beliefs about Students and the Curriculum

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written by Tara Bartiromo and Eugenia Etkina

This paper presents findings on how consistent teachers' perceptions of their students, their own role in the classroom, and the reformed curriculum are with the actual implementation of the reformed curriculum in the classroom. This study shows that the five participating teachers were consistent with their perceptions and their actual behavior in the classroom. The teachers who were engaged in designing the curriculum demonstrated consistent reformed teaching views and behaviors. The degree to which the teachers viewed the curriculum as useful to them and their students was an indicator of how reformed their teaching was as measured by the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP). Finally, it was determined that faithful implementation of a curriculum can mean faithfully implementing the theoretical foundation of the curriculum materials during instruction instead of implementing every component or lesson of the reformed curriculum. The work was supported by NSF DRL-0733140.

Physics Education Research Conference 2009
Part of the PER Conference series
Ann Arbor, Michigan: July 29-30, 2009
Volume 1179, Pages 89-92

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Published: November 11, 2009

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Education - Applied Research - Pedagogy Education - Basic Research - Behavior - Teacher Characteristics = Affect	- Graduate/Professional	- Reference Material = Research study

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Restriction:: © 2009 American Institute of Physics
DOI:: 10.1063/1.3266762
NSF Number:: 0733140
PACSs:: 01.40.ek; 01.40.Fk; 01.40.G-
Keywords:: Curriculum reform, PERC 2009, Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol, inquiry, professional development, teacher behaviors, teacher beliefs, teacher perceptions
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created October 3, 2009 by Alea Smith
Record Updated:: July 14, 2010 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: November 11, 2009

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<a href="https://www.per-central.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=9453">Bartiromo, Tara, and Eugenia Etkina. "Implementing Reform: Teachers’ Beliefs about Students and the Curriculum." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 29-30, 2009.</a>

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T. Bartiromo and E. Etkina, Implementing Reform: Teachers’ Beliefs about Students and the Curriculum, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2009, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9453&DocID=1325>.

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Bartiromo, T., & Etkina, E. (2009, July 29-30). Implementing Reform: Teachers’ Beliefs about Students and the Curriculum. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Retrieved December 14, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9453&DocID=1325

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Bartiromo, Tara, and Eugenia Etkina. "Implementing Reform: Teachers’ Beliefs about Students and the Curriculum." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 29-30, 2009. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9453&DocID=1325 (accessed 14 December 2024).

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Bartiromo, Tara, and Eugenia Etkina. "Implementing Reform: Teachers’ Beliefs about Students and the Curriculum." Physics Education Research Conference 2009. Ann Arbor, Michigan: 2009. 89-92 Vol. 1179 of PER Conference. 14 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=9453&DocID=1325>.

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