Distinctive qualities of expert teachers

DISTINCTIVE QUALITIES OF EXPERT TEACHERS Distinctive Qualities of Expert Teachers

Qualities of an effective teacher: what do medical teachers think?

BACKGROUND Effective teaching in medicine is essential to produce good quality doctors. A number of studies have attempted to identify the characteristics of an effective teacher. However, most of literature regarding an effective medical teacher includes student ratings or expert opinions. Furthermore, interdisciplinary studies for the same are even fewer. We did a cross-sectional study of the...

3 Characteristics of Expert and Novice Teachers

In the previous chapter, I reviewed three major theories of expertise and their delineation of the characteristics of experts across skills and disciplines. In this chapter, I shall examine the characteristics of novice and expert teachers that have been identified in the literature on teaching expertise and see to what extent they share the characteristics of novices and experts in other profe...

Expert Teachers: Their Characteristics, Development and Accomplishments

In the 1980s new methods and findings from cognitive psychology began to influence research on teaching. The emerging literature on commonalities in expertise across different fields seemed pertinent to educational researchers because it appeared to describe characteristics of effective teachers. So without much theory to guide them, a few scholars began to explore expertise in teaching and thi...

Teachers’ work: The tacit pedagogy of expert teachers in rural Malawi