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Friday, November 10, 2006

Teaching and Learning Theories Question 1






What really makes an expert teacher?
According to Hattie(2003) there are five attributes of an expert teacher:

1 Expert teachers can identify essential representations of their subject. Deeper representations about teaching and learning Adopt a problem solving stance to their work Can anticipate, plan anf improvise as required Are better decision makers
2 Expert teachers guide learning through classroom interactions. Create optimal classroom climate for learning Have multi-dimentionally complex perception of classroom situations Are more context dependent and have situation cognition.
3 Expert teachers monitor learning and provide feedback Are adept at monitoring student problems, level of understanding and progress and provide relevant, useful feed back. Develop and test hypotheses about learning difficulties or instructional strategies. Their cognitive skills become automatic.
4 Expert teachers attend to affective attributes Have high respect for students Are passionate about teaching and learning
5 Expert teachers can influence student outcomes Engage students in learning and develop in their students self regulation, involvement in mastery learning, enhanced self efficacy and self esteem. Provide appropriate challenging tasks and goals for students Have positive influences on students achievement Enhance surface and deep learning.

We do have to have programs that do address the multiple intelligences in our students, engage and enrich the individual experience as well as the whole class and is active in the world audience,

Creative education means the individual, the class, and the greater school community can access higher and deeper understanding in education.
Subjects become doable, amendable, assessable Research, collaboration, evaluation, reflection, and presentation.
Creative education means the ability to inter weave, layer learning, in a scaffolding of sounds, Visuals, links, connections, that take a subject and the learner beyond Research to deeper understanding, gives Relevance and takes the student into other subjects, to many other areas of education and Life Skills. Subjects and the learning experience become alive and tangible.



One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. the curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~ Carl Jung.






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