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'Experience'
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Today Femi and Matt discuss teacher effectiveness vs years of service and some issues with the word ‘experience’ which is generally used as a proxy for competence. As is increasingly the case the discussion is pertinent to all subjects and is not by any means maths-specific. There’s a lot of thinking out loud here and, unusually(!), the boys actually managed to land some insight and conclusions that both found helpful.
The conversation covers:
- The will-skill matrix
- Possible reasons why some people move sideways whereas others move up
- Role models, and the power of colleagues to either inspire, or depress
- The ability to receive and act on critical feedback,
- Self-reflection and taking responsibility for continuing development
- Insecurity and the tying self-worth to the role of teacher
- The possibility of having grades of teacher based on competence
- The importance of success, praise, encouragement and recognition
- Scaffolding support for less skillful teachers
- Natural ability
- Sporting backgrounds
- Direct instruction and the support of a mentor, and the idea that our actions should be designed to move people to the right on the will-skill matrix (that is the increasing will dimension), so that they can drive their own movement up the increasing skill dimension .
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