Dr. Corey & Dr. Peterson in Japan
The overarching question Dr. Corey and Dr. Peterson are trying to answer is "What are the characteristics of high quality mathematics instruction?" When you look at the international performance on mathematics achievement tests, the US is in the middle of the pack and Japan is usually at the top. Thus they have been interested in what Japanese mathematics educators view as high quality mathematics instruction. Dr. Corey and Dr. Peterson have written a paper on some previous work along these lines by analyzing the conversations between Japanese cooperating teachers and student teachers. They identified some principles that these experienced teachers focused on as they worked with the student teachers. As an extension of that, they have worked with several Japanese mathematics education professors to further refine what they believe to…