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Supporting experts to develop experts: identifying critical components of mental simulations as a tool for teacher professional learning.

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Τίτλος: Supporting experts to develop experts: identifying critical components of mental simulations as a tool for teacher professional learning.
Συγγραφείς: Walsh, Marguerite E., Matsumura, Lindsay Clare, Schunn, Christian D., Zook-Howell, Dena
Πηγή: Frontiers in Education; 2025, p1-18, 18p
Θεματικοί όροι: Teacher development, Educational coaching, Pedagogical content knowledge, Case method (Teaching), Educators, Reflective learning, Thought experiments
Περίληψη: Adaptive expertise is central to teachers' ability to facilitate ambitious, "student-centered" instruction in K-12 classrooms. Teachers are supported to develop adaptive expertise when they are provided opportunities to build their pedagogical knowledge and reasoning skills in authentic, "practice-based" professional learning contexts. In this article, we illustrate in depth how one empirically supported routine, Mental Simulations for Teacher Reflection (MSTR), can facilitate this learning in a video-based instructional coaching context. Using case study analytic techniques, we specifically identify the finer-grain subcomponents involved in an expert-facilitated MSTR routine and show how they are orchestrated using an illustrative vignette of a post-lesson reflective coaching conversation. We also provide a detailed description of the theoretical and empirical foundations of MSTR as a routine for developing adaptive teaching expertise. By elucidating and unpacking the detailed processes that underlie robust enactment of MSTR, we contribute insights that can help advance more consistent and high-quality teacher learning in similar kinds of reflection-based learning contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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ISSN:2504284X
DOI:10.3389/feduc.2025.1640545