This paper is from Session 4A: Statistical education: the education of teachers and children
which comes under Topic 4: Improving teaching and capacity in statistics education
Paper 4A2 (Thursday 12th, 16:00-17:30)
Professional development programs for statistics teachers: the role of reflection
Presenter
- Difariney González-Gómez (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
Co-author
- Lucía Zapata-Cardona (University of Antioquia, Colombia)
Abstract
This article studies the role of reflection in the growth and transformation of the statistics teachers who participated in a professional development program. Statistics teachers from different school levels participated voluntarily in a professional development program which goal was to design statistics lessons and reflect on their implementation. Information was gathered from different sources to track teachers’ growth about statistics and statistics teaching. Techniques such as autobiographies, journals, ideograms, reflective writing, and interviews were used. Lesson plans and recordings of the meetings complemented the sources of information. The results show that teachers’ participation in the professional development program contributed to the evolution of reflection about statistics and statistics teaching.