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Developing Teaching Expertise

A Guide to Adaptive Professional Learning Design

By: Ryan Dunn, John Hattie

Dive into this deep exploration to cultivate a proactive culture of leading learning and equip teachers to make ‘what works best’ work in every context.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781544368153
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2021
Page Count: 160
Publication date: June 18, 2021

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Cultivate a Culture of Learning by Doing In Teacher Development

Picture a world where teachers, equipped with the expertise to produce the best outcomes in every context, confidently and intentionally inquire, adapt, and change instruction based on student needs. Do you know how to get them there?

Developing Teaching Expertise offers a proactive framework for teachers to work through iterative design cycles and understand how to make ‘what works best’ work in their unique classroom. Aligned to the varied components of teacher professional learning, this book supports the development of teaching expertise by:

Exploring how specific design and leadership approaches can be integrated to form a useful framework for leading teacher professional learning
Highlighting ways to navigate through complex educational environments
Incorporating illustrative tools and vignettes, and real-life examples of results from different educational settings

This book offers a deep exploration to lead and intentionally cultivate a culture of lifelong teacher learning.

Author(s)

Ryan Dunn

Ryan Dunn, PhD, has twenty years’ experience as an educational leader, teacher, and researcher. Ryan has advised schools and systems in the United States, Canada, Singapore and Australia to develop innovative educational solutions. He has worked extensively in the United States, where he led large-scale research and professional learning initiatives in New York City and California. Ryan is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, where he focuses on teacher professional learning, educational leadership, middle leadership, and implementation science.

John Hattie

John Hattie, PhD, is an award-winning education researcher and best-selling author with nearly thirty years of experience examining what works best in student learning and achievement. His research, better known as Visible Learning, is a culmination of nearly thirty years synthesizing more than 2,100 meta-analyses comprising more than one hundred thousand studies involving over 300 million students around the world. He has presented and keynoted in over three hundred international conferences and has received numerous recognitions for his contributions to education. His notable publications include Visible Learning, Visible Learning for Teachers, Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn; Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12; and 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Teacher Professional Learning

Chapter 2. Leading Teacher Learning

Chapter 3. Adaptive Teaching Teams and Collaborative Expertise

Chapter 4. Evaluative Thinking and Expertise Pathways

Chapter 5. Understanding and Developing Teaching Dispositions

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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