Facilitators’ Orientations Towards Learning Goals, Perceived Challenges, and Teaching Resources for a PD Course on Conditional Probability

The data age has led to curriculum developments promoting the relevance of stochastics in mathematics education. This has resulted in an increased demand for teacher professional development (PD) courses, and thus in a rising number of facilitators for this purpose. Their expertise, however, remains under-researched, even though facilitators are the crucial factor in PD success. Our study aims at revealing how one aspect of facilitator expertise, orientation, is connected to other aspects: views on content goals, perception of possible challenges, and attitude towards teaching resources. The explorations reveal differing orientations and learning goals with identical teaching resources for two facilitators who had also been working as a team for the re-design of the PD course for years.