Quality Learning : Teachers Changing Their Practice / edited by Kathy Smith, John Loughran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Kathy, editor.

Loughran, John, editor.

Series:

Professional Learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (CLXXII, 8 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2017.

Summary:

When teachers are supported to work together in ways that allow them to deepen knowledge of their professional practice, the understandings that emerge from their conversations about quality learning and teaching demonstrate a high level of expertise. Yet such professional knowledge is often deeply embedded within each teacher’s everyday teaching; the tacit knowledge that determines how and why they attend to student learning in certain ways. This book captures the professional knowledge of teachers that developed as the result of an ongoing process of school based change, where teachers began to work differently because they began to think differently about the learning that mattered for their students in their school. The explication of their knowledge of practice became possible due to the ongoing support they received from their school leadership – in most part because leadership trusted them as professionals to responsibly lead student learning. Within this culture of trust and valued collaboration, working alongside external critical friends who supported their professional learning, the teachers engaged in regular, thought provoking and interactive professional dialogue. Together they exposed and challenged each other’s thinking and beliefs about learning and teaching, captured and examined each other’s practice and, ultimately articulated and extended their professional knowledge. The insights about this collaborative learning process and the emergent knowledge and understandings teachers develop about the interactive relationship between learning and teaching, has much to contribute to educational discourse beyond the school setting. Some of that knowledge and the way it looks in practice is shared in this book.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Kathy Smith and John Loughran

Leading a Learning Community / Gilbert Keisler

Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning / Andrea Dineen

Teacher Professional Learning / Sharon Kenyon-Smith

Conditions for Learning / Kathy Smith

Getting Contentious in Foundation / Kristin Baynton and Belinda Jackson

Immersion / Mary Howard and Elisha Elliott

Student Engagement / Suzette Quinn

Building Positive Teacher Relationships with Students / Victoria Dounis

Navigating through Guided Inquiry / Rikki Borg

Teacher Researcher / Ann France

Student Engagement / Julie O’Donnell

The Practice Room / Rina Madden

Risk Is Positive / Eckhart Philipp

Professional Learning That Matters / John Loughran

Author Biographies / Kathy Smith and John Loughran

Index / Kathy Smith and John Loughran.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789463009140

9463009140

OCLC:

983740428