Developing Teaching Expertise: A Guide to Adaptive Professional Learning Design
About this ebook
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.
About the author
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.
