- Title
- Responding to professional learning: how effective teachers differentiate teaching and learning strategies to engage highly able adolescents
- Creator
- Kronborg, Leonie; Plunkett, Margaret
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/66915
- Identifier
- vital:6322
- Identifier
- ISSN:1323-9686
- Abstract
- This paper outlines a study focusing on a review of professional learning provided to teachers in a new Australian selective high school for highly able students over a twoyear period. The aim was to investigate how the first two cohorts of teachers in this new selective environment perceived the characteristics and competencies required for teachers to be effective with highly academically able students. Considerable professional learning opportunities relating to these aspects had been provided to the teachers through a partnership with the Faculty of Education at Monash University and additionally by the leadership of the school and through collaboration with colleagues. Generally teachers had little prior experience with selective environments except at the leadership level. Findings illustrated that both cohorts had similar perceptions about required teaching qualities but differences existed in relation to the use of differentiated teaching strategies with the older, more experienced teachers reporting more frequent use of such strategies. As such, it was important to tailor professional learning to meet the needs of the less experienced teachers to assist their knowledge and understanding about the importance of differentiated instruction
- Relation
- Australasian Journal of Gifted Education Vol. 22, no. 2 (2013), p. 52-63
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Professional learning communities; Learning; Child development; Teacher-student relationships; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
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