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What Expert Teacher do?

What EXPERT teachers do?

Enhancing professional knowledge for classroom practice

By John Loughran

Allen & Unwin Australia

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What does the book show?

          1. How do expert teacher do?

          2. How do they enhance student learning?

          3. How do they manage the dilemmas and tensions inherent in working with different student in every lesson?

 

“This book gets the hearth of what makes for good teaching. The ideas are robust, principled and practical.”  By: Jane Mitchell

About author

          John Loughran is a professor of curriculum and pedagogy at Monash University who argues that teachers’ knowledge of what they do is largely tacit and often misunderstood.

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Three parts of this book

  1. Understanding teaching and Learning

  2. Knowledge of practice in action

  3. Professional learning

 

Understanding teaching and learning

          The important of the relationship between teaching and learning stands out, and it is in this relationship that real understanding of pedagogy emerges that is where our expertise resides.

  • Thinking about teaching; teaching has been organized in a way to make clear that expertise in teaching involves much more than the simple accumulation of technical competence is an important base from which expertise in teaching grows.

  • Thinking about learning; considering some of the aspect of learning help to shape the manner in which a learner’s understanding can be developed.  

  • Pedagogy; a sheared language of teaching and learning is the foundation for professional knowledge that is so important in being better informed about the nature of pedagogy and developing our pedagogical expertise.

 

Knowledge of practice in action

          The teachers’ professional knowledge might be described and articulated through the development and use of a common language of practice.

  • Prior knowledge; the idea, information, beliefs and attitude that learner brings to classroom is called Prior knowledge.

  • Processing; the important processing is the creating meaningful ways of enhancing learning.

  • Linking; the important of linking in storing, structuring and retrieving ideas, knowledge and information are crucial to high-quality pedagogy.

  • Translation; translation activities help learner to develop their understanding, especially when performed as a conscious act that supports pedagogy development.

  •  Synthesising; syntheses help to build richer understanding of the particular content under consideration and encourage the learner to approach building up their learning from a personal perspective.

  • Metacognition; the language of metacognition is a reminder of the important of encouraging pedagogic experiences to be structure in the ways that foster the development of active, responsible learners.

 

Professional Learning

          The professional development is typically seen as telling teachers what to do, and to highlight the importance of profession learning. It supports teacher in directing their own knowledge growth.

  • Growing professional knowledge through reflection; reflection is a specialized form of thought that lies at the hearths of professional practice.

  • The value of teacher research; teacher research generates specialist knowledge that is a most important research outcome.

  • Developing knowledge of practice through professional learning; professional learning and development are important for the growth and valuing of teachers’ professional knowledge of practice.

 

Conclusion

          Expert teacher may make teaching look easy, the reality requires specialist skills, knowledge and ability. Teacher should be able to demonstrate that which comprises the expertise. Teachers need to make the skills, ability and knowledge of pedagogy clear and obvious.

 

                                                                             Mr. Punyawut Srisom 

                                                                             SEA-Teacher from VRU, Thailand

 

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