Supporting mathematics students’ and teachers’ learning: the importan...

Teacher education and professional development aim at teachers’ learning, with the intention to promote students’ learning (both as an individual and a societal benefit). In order to foster these goals, a close link between research, policy and practice is needed: researchers recommend (intended) curricula, policy makers decide (intended) curricula, and teachers implement curricula, all of them influencing what we get as students’ achieved curricula. Teacher education and professional development initiatives have the goal to observe the gaps between the intended, the implemented and the achieved, to support (student) teachers in understanding and constructively working on the corresponding challenges.