Mathematics coordinators as school team PD leaders before and during COVID-19

Orit Cohen-Nissan; Zehavit Kohen

doi:10.1016/j.tate.2022.103921

Mathematics coordinators as school team PD leaders before and during COVID-19

Teach Teach Educ. 2023 Jan:121:103921. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2022.103921. Epub 2022 Oct 31.

Authors

Orit Cohen-Nissan¹, Zehavit Kohen¹

Affiliation

¹ The Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel.

Abstract

This study explored a professional development (PD) program preparing mathematics coordinators to lead effective PD in their schools. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic emerging in the midst of this study, the PD program and school team PD were performed online instead of face-to-face. We explored the PD program and school team PD design before and during COVID-19 period, and the coordinators' expertise-based PD leadership professional identity (LPI). Findings revealed structural stability of the PD program design, and support of coordinators' LPI. Coordinators enacted a structural transition of effective PD design into the school team PD, demonstrating their LPI in practice.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Effective PD programs; PD leaders; Professional identity; Professional learning community.