Developing Expert Teaching: A practical guide to designing effective professional development, for others and ourselves (High Impact Teaching)

This book is for teachers, school leaders and teacher educators interested in understanding what teaching is, how it works, and how to improve it.

From the author of Lean Lesson Planning, Memorable Teaching, and Motivated Teaching, this final instalment in the High Impact Teaching series stitches together the best available evidence from multiple fields to create a concise, coherent and actionable framework that you can use to power up your own teaching or that of others.

Developing Expert Teaching has been carefully constructed to be a highly efficient reading experience. It is short, sparse and you should be able to read it in about an hour.

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Contents

Act I: Introduction

• Why expertise?
• The anatomy of expertise
• The essential ingredients of PD

Act II: Ingredients

• 1. Get it
• 2. See it
• 3. Try it
• 4. Keep it
• 5. Fit it
• 6. Own it

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Praise for other books in the High Impact Teaching series

"Things that make teachers' lives simpler like this are few and far between." Doug Lemov, Author of Teach Like a Champion

"I doubt you'll find an education book with more useful insights per minute of reading time." Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at UCL

"It's not easy to write a book that is simultaneously brief, packed with ideas, and clear, but Peps has done it." Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia

"I can't remember when I have ever read a book that takes such complex ideas and communicates them with sophistication and simplicity." Oliver Caviglioli, Education author & information designer