Exploring Teacher's Thinking
- London Cassell education 1987
- 218p. 24.5 cm.
Includes Index
Contents: Introduction
1: Individual,institutional, and cultural influences on the development of teacher's craft knowledge 2: Ways of thinking about students and classrooms by more and less experienced teachers 3: Teacher planning 4: 150 Different ways of knowing:representations of knowledge in teaching 5: Teacher's assessments of students difficulties and progress in understanding in the classroom 6: Teacher's knowledge structures and comprehension processes 7: Knots in teachers' thinking 8: Curriculum change and the classroom order 9: Teacher responses to curriculum policy:beyond the delivery metaphor Index.
explores the cognitive and effective dimensions of teachers' thinking, emphasizing the importance of understanding teachers' beliefs and knowledge to improve teaching practices and student learning.