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Chapter 3 - Effective pedagogy for student learning

from Part II - Professional knowledge

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Anne Coffey  and
Louise Moroney
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Jeanne Allen  and
Simone White
Jeanne Allen
Affiliation:
Griffith University, Queensland
Simone White
Affiliation:
RMIT University
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The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST), as introduced in Chapter 1, require that teachers not only know the content and how to teach it, but also know their students and how they learn. This chapter introduces the concept of pedagogy and examines the centrality of relationships between teacher, student and content, as a defining feature of pedagogy. Pedagogy is the most outward expression of how a teacher considers that teaching and learning best take place. Teachers should always base their decisions on ‘how’ to teach on their understanding of how the students in their class learn best. This involves a number of considerations, such as their stage of development (physical, cognitive and social), individual interests and preferred ways of learning. A number of different pedagogical frameworks are explored in the chapter, which concludes with a discussion of some of the key elements of exemplary teaching and how these elements are embedded in pedagogy.

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Learning to Teach in a New Era , pp. 75 - 112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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