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The Influence of Teacher Guides on Teachers’ Practice: A Longitudinal Case Study

The issues concerning the use of curriculum resources such as teacher guides and textbooks are important because they can promote a teacher's pedagogical design capacity, or a teacher’s ability to use personal resources to adapt the curriculum materials and to achieve productive and beneficial instructional episodes in the classroom (Davis & Krajcik, 2005). Previous results on the utilization of resources in mathematics instruction in Croatia (Glasnović Gracin, 2011) show that the textbook is the primary resource in teachers’ lesson preparation ; the next most frequently used resource is the accompanying teacher guide. The study encompassed the following questions: 1) What are the differences in the structure, textbook mobilization and voice between the two editions of the teacher guide? 2) How does the teacher guide influence the use of the textbook in the observed mathematics lessons? Do the changes in the content of the new edition of the teacher guide cause a change in teacher practice? The results show the relative stability of teaching practice, but suggest, however, that the teacher guide can have an influence on the instruction.

Longitudinal case study ; teacher guide ; textbook mobilization

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