Brown & Edelson (2003)

Teaching As Design: Can We Better Understand the Ways in Which Teachers Use Materials So We Can Better Design Materials to Support Their Changes in Practice?

The report Teaching As Design: Can We Better Understand the Ways in Which Teachers Use Materials So We Can Better Design Materials to Support Their Changes in Practice? was written by Matthew Brown and Daniel Edelson and published by the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS) in 2003. The report is available from LeTUS at http://www.letus.org/PDF/teaching_as_design.pdf.

Abstract

Teacher practice is in many ways a design-based activity. This report discusses the ways that teachers interacted with curriculum materials from the LeTUS Global Warming Project, focusing on how they interpreted and used these materials in the process of crafting customized instruction for their classrooms. We introduce a taxonomy for interpreting how teachers adapted, offloaded onto and improvised with the curriculum materials and propose a framework for describing teachers' capacity to design with curriculum materials. We also introduce the notion of pedagogical design capacity and discuss its implications for the design of curriculum materials and curriculum-based professional development.

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APA

Brown, M. W., & Edelson, D. C. (2003). Teaching as design: Can we better understand the ways in which teachers use materials so we can better design materials to support their changes in practice? (p. 11). Evanston, IL. Retrieved from http://www.letus.org/PDF/teaching_as_design.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{Brown2003,
address = {Evanston, IL},
author = {Brown, Matthew W. and Edelson, Daniel C.},
institution = {Center for Learning Technolgies in Urban Schools},
pages = {11},
title = {{Teaching as design: Can we better understand the ways in which teachers use materials so we can better design materials to support their changes in practice?}},
url = {http://www.letus.org/PDF/teaching\_as\_design.pdf},
year = {2003}
}