Benefits of a teacher and coach collaboration: A case study

This paper describes a case study of a math teacher working with a math coach and the effects of their interaction. A guiding question was whether the coaching intervention had affected the teacher's classroom practices and, if so, in what way. The study utilized data from teacher/coach planning sessions, classroom lessons, follow-up debriefing sessions, and interviews with the teacher, coach and school principal. These data enabled the author to study the impact, if any, of the coaching on teacher beliefs and practices.An important outcome was that new beliefs about mathematics education emerged from the teacher and that these beliefs were mirrored in various teaching practices.