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Quality Learning

Teachers Changing Their Practice

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Kathy Smith

    1. Monash University, Australia

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  2. John Loughran

    1. Monash University, Australia

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  • This book demonstrates how learning and teaching can be enhanced through school based professional learning.
  • This book draws attention to the importance of focusing on student learning as a way of supporting pedagogical change and development.
  • This book highlights how, through a whole school approach, teachers’ professional knowledge of practice can be developed and enhanced in powerful ways.

Part of the book series: Professional Learning (PROFL)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Leading Professional Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Leading a Learning Community

      • Gilbert Keisler
      Pages 3-8

    3. Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning

      • Andrea Dineen
      Pages 9-17

    4. Teacher Professional Learning

      • Sharon Kenyon-Smith
      Pages 19-27

    5. Conditions for Learning

      • Kathy Smith
      Pages 29-38

  3. Enhancing Learning and Teaching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Getting Contentious in Foundation

      • Kristin Baynton, Belinda Jackson
      Pages 41-52

    3. Immersion

      • Mary Howard, Elisha Elliott
      Pages 53-68

    4. Student Engagement

      • Suzette Quinn
      Pages 69-77

    5. Building Positive Teacher Relationships with Students

      • Victoria Dounis
      Pages 79-84

    6. Navigating through Guided Inquiry

      • Rikki Borg
      Pages 85-102

  4. Developing Professional Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Teacher Researcher

      • Ann France
      Pages 105-115

    3. Student Engagement

      • Julie O’Donnell
      Pages 117-126

    4. The Practice Room

      • Rina Madden
      Pages 127-140

    5. Risk is Positive

      • Eckhart Philipp
      Pages 141-149

    6. Professional Learning that Matters

      • John Loughran
      Pages 151-157

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 155-170
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Monash University, Australia

    Kathy Smith, John Loughran

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quality Learning

  • Book Subtitle: Teachers Changing Their Practice

  • Editors: Kathy Smith, John Loughran

  • Series Title: Professional Learning

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-914-0

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-914-0Published: 13 April 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CLXXII, 8

  • Topics: Education, general

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