Teacher Education IDENTIFIERS *Cognitively Guided Instruction

This paper describes a research-based teacher professional development program for elementary school mathematics and includes an overview of cognitively guided instruction (CGI). Also described are the CGI professional development program and the research base for CGI with regard to children's thinking; teachers ' knowledge and beliefs about children's thinking and the relation of teachers ' knowledge and beliefs to their student's achievement; the effect of the CGI professional development program on teachers ' knowledge, beliefs, and practice; and the achievement of students in CGI classes. (Contains 27 references.) (MM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document