Education Research Reading Room ERRR #080. Peps Mccrea on Developing Expert Teaching
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Jul 6, 2023 AI Snips
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PD Is The Highest-Leverage Educational Intervention
- Professional development (PD) is the most powerful lever to improve education because boosting teacher effectiveness yields consistent large gains.
- PD compounds across a teacher's career, improving outcomes for many future cohorts of students.
Teaching Looks Easy Because Experts Hide Complexity
- Teaching is far more complex than many realise because teachers manage many minds simultaneously with limited observable access and tools.
- Expert teachers make hard work look easy, which conceals that complexity from observers and policymakers.
Teaching Has A Fuzzy Feedback Loop
- Teaching offers highly fuzzy, delayed feedback compared with tasks like darts where outcomes are immediate and visible.
- That fuzziness makes learning from experience slow and unstable, limiting intuition-based improvement.