Expertise readers

All the links from each chapter of Developing Expert Teaching. Diagrams are at the bottom of the page. Enjoy 🥳

Why expertise?

1. Quote from Beyond the Plateau: The Case for an Institute for Advanced Teaching
2. Note: effective supporting curricula are equally important—for more, see What We Teach Matters, by Learning First
3. For a more comprehensive analysis of this argument (and generally ace book), see Leadership for Teacher Learning, by Wiliam
4. For an estimate of the investment in PD (in the US), see The Mirage, by TNTP
5. See The Effects of High-Quality PD on Teachers and Students, by Fletcher-Wood
6. Check out Habit Formation Limits Growth in Teacher Effectiveness, by Hobbiss
7. Phrase from Cognitive Load and Classroom Teaching, by Feldon
8. For further nuance, see The Myth of the Performance Plateau, by Papay
9. This is what Kahneman calls a ‘low validity environment’. For more, see Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree
10. For an origin story, see Expert Performance: Its Structure and Acquisition, by Ericsson

The anatomy of expertise

1. From Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise [book]
2. For a clear argument around why we should focus on core tasks, see Parsing the Practice of Teaching, by Kennedy
3. For more on explanatory conjecture, see The Beginning of Infinity, by Deutsch [book]
4. For an accessible overview of this argument, see Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, by Ericsson [book]
5. See Toward a Multifactorial Model of Expertise, by Hambrick
6. See Expert Teaching: What is it, and how might be develop it? by Yours Truly
7. For more on teacher noticing, see Classroom Management Scripts, by Wolff
8. See Describing the Behavior and Documenting the Accomplishments of Expert Teachers, by Berliner
9. For more, check out The Development of Expertise in Pedagogy, by Berliner
10. For more on the sports angle, see The Coach’s Guide to Teaching, by Lemov [book]

The essential ingredients of PD

1. From the classic Professional Development and Teacher Change [book]
2. See Characteristics of Effective Teacher Professional Development, by Sims (easily one of the best analyses of PD to date and a great accompaniment to this book)
3. For more on this, check out Tight but Loose: A Conceptual Framework for Scaling Up School Reforms, by Thompson

Get it

1. See A Mental Model of the Learner, by Willingham (one of my fav papers ever)
2. For more, see Neuroscience and Education: Myths and Messages, by Howard-Jones
3. For 3 related experiments, see Delaying Feedback by Three Seconds, by Carpenter
4. For a fuller argument, see Classroom Research and Cargo Cults, by Hirsch
5. For example, see The Effect of Teacher Coaching on Instruction and Achievement, by Kraft, and Learning: What is it, and how might we catalyse it? by Yours Truly
6. Technical vocabulary is important for teachers to build (as it allows for more precise discussion), but should be developed in a deliberate, gradual way
7. See The Power of ‘by’, by Boxer
8. See Understanding Teacher Effectiveness to Raise Pupil Attainment, by Burgess
9. For more strategies, see The Learning Curriculum 3.0, by Fletcher-Wood
10. See Second-Order Thinking, by Parrish

See it

1. See Modelling Evidence-Based Practice in Initial Teacher Training, by Sims (also a cracking example of experimental research in education)
2. See Get Better Faster, by Bambrick-Santoyo [book]
3. For more, check out How to Study Thinking in Everyday Life, by Ericsson
4. See The Role of Case Study in Teacher Education, by Schrittesser
5. Check out Inflexible Knowledge: The First Step to Expertise, by Willingham
6. See Teaching Practice: A Cross-Professional Perspective, by Grossman
7. See What Influences the Selection of Contextual Cues when Starting a New Routine Behaviour? by Stawarz
8. Doug Lemov is the king of sticky shorthands—check out Teach Like a Champion for inspiration [book]
9. For more, see Variation Theory and the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, by Lo
10. Check out Innovation and Efficiency in Transfer, by Schwartz

Try it

1. From Practice Perfect [book]
2. For more on this, check out How Expertise Develops in Medicine, by Schmidt
3. See Fast Start: Training Better Teachers Faster, by TNTP
4. Check out Experimental Evidence on the Robustness of Coaching Supports in Teacher Education, by Cohen
5. For a punchy reader, see Practice with Purpose: The Emerging Science of Teacher Expertise, by Deans for Impact
6. See Keeping It Complex: Using Rehearsals to Support Novice Teacher Learning of Ambitious Teaching, by Lampert
7. For more, check out The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance, by Ericsson
8. See Teacher Coaching in a Simulated Environment, by Cohen
9. For more nuance, see Teaching Content in Practice, by Kavanagh
10. See Deliberate Practice in Teacher Education: A Handbook, by Fletcher-Wood

Keep it

1. From Atomic Habits (a cracking book)
2. See Habit Formation Limits Growth in Teacher Effectiveness, by Hobbiss
3. For more, see The Development of Expertise in Pedagogy, by Berliner
4. Check out Habitual Instigation and Habitual Execution, by Gardner
5. For more, check out Implementation Intentions, by Gollwitzer
6. For more on cues, see Making Health Habitual: the Psychology of ‘Habit-Formation’ and General Practice, by Gardner
7. For strategies, see Healthy Through Habit: Interventions for Initiating & Maintaining Health Behavior Change, by Wood
8. For a breakdown, see the Valley of Latent Potential Evidence Snack, by Yours Truly
9. Check out Better Teacher Habits for Better Student Learning, by Fletcher-Wood
10. For more on this idea, see Cognitive Load and Classroom Teaching: The Double-Edged Sword of Automaticity, by Feldon

Fit it

1. From The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (a hefty book)
2. See Expertise Reversal Effect and its Instructional Implications, by Kalyuga
3. Check out Putting Evidence to Work: A School’s Guide to Implementation, by EEF
4. For more, see Describing the Behavior and Documenting the Accomplishments of Expert Teachers, by Berliner
5. For more on this stuff, see Driven by Data 2.0, by Bambrick  [book] or Leading a High Reliability School, by Marzano [book]
6. Check out the fab Leadership for Teacher Learning, by Wiliam [book]
7. For more, see the classic Parsing the Practice of Teaching, by Kennedy
8. Checking out Responsive Coaching, by Goodrich (should be published soon!)
9. See Personal Best: Top Athletes and Singers Have Coaches, Should You? by Gwande
10. For more inspiration, see Responsive Teaching, by Fletcher-Wood [book]

Own it

1. It’s the kind of thing he would say, right? Random quotes always seem to be attributed to Einstein
2. For more, see Peak: Secrets from the Science of Expertise, by Ericsson [book]
3. Check out Theories of Motivation in Education, by Urhahne
4. For more nuance, see Unique Effects of Goal Setting on Behavior Change, by Epton
5. Jim Knight is good on this, see The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching [book]
6. For more, check out Implementation Intentions, by Gollwitzer
7. For a range of strategies, check out Nudging in Education, by Damgaard
8. See Social Influence: Compliance and Conformity, by Cialdini
9. For more, check out Beyond Willpower: Strategies for Reducing Failures of Self-Control, by Duckworth
10. For more on this concept, see Supportive Accountability, by Mohr

Pulling it all together

1. See Putting Evidence to Work: A School’s Guide to Implementation, by EEF
2. See Tight but Loose: A Framework for Scaling up School Reform, by Thompson
3. For more, check out Making health habitual: the psychology of ‘habit-formation’ and general practice, by Gardner
4. See Responsive Coaching, by Goodrich (should be released soon!)
5. See the awesome Leadership for Teacher Learning, by Wiliam [book]

Coda: The future of teaching

1. For more check out How Culture Makes Us Smarter, by Stewart-Williams
2. See What Can We Learn From The Medical Education Transformation? by Riley
3. For more on the importance of a widespread appetite, see Why Education Experts Resist Effective Practices, by Carnine
4. See Beyond The Plateau: The Case for an Institute for Advanced Teaching, by Hood
5. To generate stronger consensus around effective teaching—for more, see Building a Common Core for Learning to Teach, by Ball

Diagrams

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