How a teacher’s character manifests itself in the classroom is often missing from understanding pedagogical wizardry

Kevin Stannard cited Sutton Trust research on teaching practice in the Times Educational Supplement.

All too often this “pedagogical praxis” is missed when we discuss the make-up of top teaching practice, writes one leading educationist.

Research suggests that there are three dimensions to great teaching: who the teacher is, what the teacher knows, and how the teacher teaches. Studies such as that by the Sutton Trust tend to concentrate on the latter two dimensions – understandably, because these are more easily quantifiable, and much more easily linked to the fairly narrow ‘outcomes’ data used as dependent variable in such surveys.

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How a teacher’s character manifests itself in the classroom is often missing from understanding pedagogical wizardry

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