- Title
- The quest for better teaching
- Creator
- Gore, Jennifer M.
- Relation
- Oxford Review of Education Vol. 47, Issue 1, p. 45-60
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1842182
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- The quest to improve teaching on a wide scale is an enduring challenge globally. Yet demonstrable improvement in teaching quality is both elusive and slow. In this essay, I explore some of the complexities that contribute to the slow pace of change, including: the slippage between teachers and teaching as the object of improvement; the poorly defined concept of good teaching; the difficulty of demonstrating improvement in teaching; institutional constraints on improvement efforts; the growing web of marketing; and conflicting conceptions of professional development itself. Using my ongoing work on Quality Teaching and Quality Teaching Rounds, I illustrate how we have addressed these matters to produce measurable and sustainable effects. Finally, I elaborate the key principles of our approach, while acknowledging the challenges of wide-scale improvement, given the institutional and discursive character of the field.
- Subject
- quality teaching; quality teaching rounds; good teaching; better teaching; improving teaching; SDG 4; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1444794
- Identifier
- uon:42408
- Identifier
- ISSN:0305-4985
- Rights
- © The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
- Language
- eng
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