Description
Book SynopsisWhat do Amadeus Mozart, David Beckham, Marie Curie and Bill Gates have in common? Answer: all excel in their diverse areas of music, sport, science and computing.
The Expert Learner looks at what we know about acquiring such expertise and seeks to apply it to education, particularly to classroom teaching. Challenging the widely held belief that excellence is the result of innate ability, it shows how ability is developed through applied learning and deliberate practice.
Drawing on studies about expertise The Expert Learner highlights the importance of:
- Providing opportunities and support to develop skills
- Being motivated to succeed
- Undergoing extensive deliberate practice
- Building powerful mental models to handle and organise information
- Receiving continuous and effective feedback to improve performance
- Developing self-regulation to monitor performance
The Expert Learner takes these findings and applies them to education. What op
Table of ContentsSeries editor's introduction
AcknowledgementsIntroduction
1 Nothing's fixed: tackling ability myths
2 How experts learn
3 Digging deep - expectations, self-belief and challenge
4 Is everybody clear?
5 Expert diagnosis - the teacher as clinician
6 Getting and giving feedback - it's harder than we think
7 The expert school
Notes
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Index
