Professional learning through a focus on task design: responding to historical scholarship and students' interests

Authors

  • Jason Todd University of Oxford
  • David Hibbert Owen School
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/reifop.20.3.290951
Keywords: Knowledge, Planning, Teacher Development, Student interests.

Abstract

This article reports on a small-scale collaborative research project that investigated the role played by scholarship and student interests in teachers’ planning and professional learning. It involved three history teachers in different schools working either with each other and the researcher to plan tasks in the classroom, the project took place over the course of one year. A key conclusion is the need for dialogic spaces to allow teachers to explore and integrate ideas based on knowledge of their students, with knowledge from historical scholarship.

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Jason Todd, University of Oxford

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Published
24-07-2017
How to Cite
Todd, J., & Hibbert, D. (2017). Professional learning through a focus on task design: responding to historical scholarship and students’ interests. Interuniversity Electronic Journal of Teacher Formation, 20(3), 15–31. https://doi.org/10.6018/reifop.20.3.290951