What expert teachers do : enhancing professional knowledge for classroom practice /
John Loughan.
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- xii, 232 p.: ill 24 cm.
Includes bibliography and index
Understanding teaching and learning. Thinking about teaching ; Thinking about learning ; Pedagogy -- Knowledge of practice in action. Prior knowledge ; Processing ; Linking ; Translation ; Synthesising ; Metacognition -- Professional Learning. Growing professional knowledge through reflection ; The value of teacher research ; Developing knowledge of practice through professional learning.
John Loughran argues that teachers` knowledge of what they do is largely tacit and often misunderstood. In this book, he distils the essence of professional practice for classroom teachers who want to become really accomplished practitioners.