DOCUMENT RESUME ED 480 853 SP 041 752 AUTHOR Kazemi, Elham; Franke, Megan Loef TITLE Using Student Work To Support Professional Development in Elementary Mathematics. A CTP Working Paper. INSTITUTION Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, Seattle, WA. SPONS AGENCY Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. PUB DATE 2003-04-00 NOTE 45p. CONTRACT R305A60007-98 AVAILABLE FROM Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, University of Washington, 203C Miller, Box 353600, Seattle, WA 98195-3600 (Document no. W-03-1) . Tel: 206-221-4114; Fax: 206-616-6762; Web site: http://www.ctpweb.org. PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Elementary Education; Elementary School Mathematics; Elementary School Teachers; *Faculty Development; *Mathematics Education; Teacher Improvement IDENTIFIERS *Study Groups ABSTRACT It is commonly argued that teachers need ongoing engagement with ideas about using student reasoning, pedagogy, and subject matter if they are to make sense of the complex demands of current reforms in mathematics education. Drawing on similar arguments about the potential benefits of using student work to organize professional development, this study charts the development of one teacher workgroup over a year. The analysis addresses two questions: (1) How did teachers' talk about student work develop? and (2) What kinds of mathematical and pedagogical issues were raised as a result of their ongoing and changing talk? The study locates teacher learning in their interactions with one another in the workgroup. In monthly cross-grade meetings, teachers brought and discussed student work that was generated by a similar mathematical problem posed to students in each of their classrooms. The paper documents the teachers' efforts to detail their students' reasoning and discuss how their engagement with mathematical and pedagogical concerns created opportunities for teacher learning. (Contains 64 references.) (Author/SM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.