This chapter discusses the mismatch that often exists between what teachers hope to achieve and what is actually delivered in the classroom. This can be due to factors like student behavior, lesson content, or personal interest. As a result, teachers struggle to find new teaching methods and resources to address this on their own, as schools often do not provide support. The PEEL framework was developed to encourage engaged learning where students take responsibility for their own learning rather than simply being taught information. The school observed by the author has started implementing teacher development programs focused on improving techniques to engage students in learning rather than just spoon feeding them information.

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Reflection on Chapter 1:
I found that this chaptertells a story of how teachers may have a heart of gold when it comes to
teaching their subject, yet when it comes to actually teaching it, their behaviour deviates from
what they hope to do. This could be due to many different things - could be the behaviour of the
students, the contingencies surrounding that particular lesson, the content of the topic, their -personal interest in the knowledge being shared. The result is a mismatch between teacher 4r/
intent and what is delivered to the students.
The problem surrounding this, though, is that schools either don't address this mismatch, or
aren't equipped to do so. This leaves teachers left to work on these issues alone - investigating
new methods of teaching and implementing them into the curriculum. This creates a big struggle-
for these teachers, who become more stressed due to the time it takes to find such resour r"r.y'
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Such teachers have learned the importance in creating a routine for their students, but not being
routinized and lose the magic of teaching for the love of it and the content. They have learned
the importance of also choosing activities to use for a particular pedagogical reason ratherthan
choosing them to'break up the normal routine'they have created. q
PEEL has been developed as a result of this - PEEL stands for Project for lnhancing fffective
learning. The main idea behind PEEL is that teaching is rygrdthan just delivering information, but
is learning t o create circumstonces for engoged learninif.fft is the idea that students are to become
more responsible for their own leTEning and teachers have to find ways of encouraging this,
ratherthan '^#ng'them learn.*t is stated in this text that "quality learning requires learner
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I feel that the school where I did my observation was finding ways of implementing teacher
development in this type of way. The school finished early one day a week so that teachers can
be educated about certain types ofteachingtechniques orresources they can use -anythingto
improve their PCK. They also work on getting the students more into lTrning ratherthan spoon
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