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The Practice Room

A Space for Teachers to Engage in Professional Dialogue about Learning

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Quality Learning

Part of the book series: Professional Learning ((PROFL))

Abstract

The current rhetoric around teaching often uses managerial language to describe what teachers do, implying that teaching is a technical or systematic activity where quality is evident in predictable routines and procedural approaches. When teaching is understood in this way the teacher simply becomes an implementer of a program (Adams & Engelmann, 1996; Slavin, 1996), yet any teacher will argue that this perception does not match the reality of their work.

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  1. Catholic Education Melbourne, Australia

    Rina Madden (Education Officer (Religion Education)

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  1. Monash University, Australia

    Kathy Smith

  2. Monash University, Australia

    John Loughran

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Madden, R. (2017). The Practice Room. In: Smith, K., Loughran, J. (eds) Quality Learning. Professional Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-914-0_12

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