Exploring the price of teaching excellenceOlaojo Aiyegbayo #TALISS

Seminar Overview

Presentation(30 mins)

Discussion(30 mins)

Research

Teaching

Excellence

“So do we go for excellence in teaching or in research? Both, obviously. They’re fully compatible. In fact, they feed off each other.” Bob Cryan

Teaching is a skill

“something requiring special training or expertise.”

Collins English Dictionary

University of Sunderland (St Peter’s Campus)

Skill development

Practice makes perfect.

Experience

Excellence/Expertise

“Beware of the man who says he has 20 years’ experience when what he should be saying is he has one year’s experience repeated twenty times.”

Alan Fletcher

Comfort ZoneLearning ZonePanic Zone

Noel Tichy’s 3 Zones of Learning

“You can’t allow yourself to get comfortable with what you are comfortable with, because then that’s all you will want to do.”

Twyla Tharp

Deliberate Practice by Anders Ericsson

Activities designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual's performance.

Anders Ericsson

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Research

Teaching

Excellence

How can you improve what you don’t measure?

Discussion What are your approaches and processes for developing your practice?

How do you assess, measure or evaluate that you are growing and developing as a teacher?

What do you need from your school, staff development and institution to help you develop and grow as a teacher?

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