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TEACHER EXPERTISE
Presented by
Anima Minz
TEACHER EXPERTISE
 According to Glaser & Chi (1988),
 Defines teacher expertise as the possession of an
organized body of conceptual and procedural
knowledge that can be both readily accessed and
used with superior meta-cognitive skill.
 Characteristics of teacher expertise
a) Important elements of learning and learning styles
can be easily analyzed by an expert teacher.
b) The teacher experience plays an important role in
his/her teaching.
c) A teacher expertise guides and monitors new
teachers.
d) The teacher expertise helps in sharing ideas.
BERLINER’S STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
OF A TEACHER (2004)
 David C. Berliner
 Professor of Psychology in Education and Curriculum and
Instruction, Arizona State University & Spencer Fellow,
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
(1988)
 In 1988, conference organized by American Association of
Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), Washington, D.C.
 The title was : “THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERTISE IN
PEDAGOGY”
 Berliner stated five stages of teacher’s development.
 Berliner’s declares 4 pillars of teacher development:-
i. Duration of experience.
ii. Applications of rules in teaching.
iii. Practical knowledge about subject matter and pedagogy.
iv. Teaching strategies on various content.
5 STAGES OF TEACHER DEVELOPMENT
1. NOVICE/BEGINNER
TEACHER
2. ADVANCED NOVICE
3.
EFFECTIVE/COMPETENT
4. EXPERT/PROFICIENT
5. MASTER
NOVICE LEVEL/BEGINER LEVEL
1. The behaviour of the novice is rational, relatively
inflexible, and tends to conform to whatever rules and
procedures they were told to follow. Only marginal
performance is really expected here.
2. This is a stage for learning the objectives facts and
features of situations. It is a stage for gaining
experience. And it is the stage at which real-world
experience appears to be far more important than
verbal information, as generations of student teachers
have informed.
3. Practice teachers/initial teachers learns about the basic
concept & principle in prospects, skills.
4. Novice is taught the meaning of terms like higher-order
questions, reinforcement and learning disabled.
5. The novice conforms/follows the rules and regulations.
Also learn the objectives, facts and features of
situation.
6. In this stage, novice gain experience.
ADVANCED NOVICE LEVEL
 At this level, experience can become combine with verbal
knowledge, similarities across contexts are recognized,
and episodic knowledge(detail of the specific event) is
built up.
 Strategic knowledge when to ignore or break rules and
when to follow them is developed as context begins to
guide behaviour.
 May also lack a certain responsibility for their actions.
This occurs because they are labeling and describing
events, following rules, recognizing and classifying
contexts, but not actively determining through personal
action what is happening.
 Here the learner know when to follow the rules and when
to break them.
 Here experience are influencing the behaviors, but still
the advanced beginner has no idea of what is important.
 Have lack responsibility of what they do.
EFFECTIVE LEVEL/COMPETENT LEVEL
 In this stage, the learner make conscious choices and set
priorities and decide on plans what they are going to do. They
try to achieve their rational goals though sensible means.
 At this stage, they know what to attend and what to ignore
from their experience. Teachers also learns to make
curriculum and instruction decisions when to stay on topic and
when to move on.
 They are in control what is happening around them.
 Teacher feels more responsible at this stage.
 Competent performers of a skill have two distinguishing
characteristics;-
 First, they make conscious choices about what they are going
to do. They set priorities and decide on plans. They have
rational goals and choose sensible means for reaching them
 Secondly, while enacting their skill, they can determine what is
and what is not important. From their experience they know
what to attend to and what to ignore.
 Teachers got degree/certificates and referred as trained
teacher.
 In this level, teachers learn to make curriculum and instruction
decisions, such as when to stay with a topic and when to
EXPERT LEVEL/PROFICIENT LEVEL
 This is the stage at which intuition or know-how becomes
prominent. Teacher have an “intuitive” sense of the
situation. Individual due experiences have recognisation
of similarities.
 Teacher compared this stage as micro adjustment while
riding bicycle.
 From the experience the teachers know what going to
happen through holistic recognition similarities.
 This holistic similarity recognition helps predict situations
precisely because they have been experienced before.
 characteristics;-
a) Easily identify the key elements from experience.
b) Expert teacher can easily identify the key elements in
the task.
c) Expert teacher have high co-operative ability to analyze
and digest learning environment in a creative and
distant ways.
d) They have a smooth style.
e) Ability to guide and mentor novice teacher
MASTER LEVEL/EXPERT LEVEL
 Schon. 1983, explains the behaviors of experts as
“knowledge-in-action”.
 Experts “go with the flow”.
 If Novices, Advanced Beginners and Competent
performers are rational, Proficient performers are
Intuitive.
 Experts teachers know whre to be or what to do at the
right time.
 They show qualitatively different performance than
novices or competent performers.
 Characteristics;-
a) They can handle a large quantity of information and
give a very smooth natural performance.
b) They make little amount of mistake.
c) These educators are widely recognized as superior and
they can be mentors.
LEVELS In context of knowledge, skills and disposition
NOVICE New to the field, little knowledge, and skills, and emerging disposition.
ADVANCED
NOVICE
Can perform to basic standard, knowledge, skills and development on
emerging state.
EFFECTIVE They got much experienced, can vary performance based on unique
situation. Knowledge and skill are on emerging expertise, and
disposition is committed under first 5 years after getting degree.
EXPERT Can invent new or better way to do job, can teach others. Knowledge
and skills in on expert level, disposition is fully committed. 5-10 years
of teaching experience.
MASTER Provide almost perfect performance and knowledge and skill is at elite
level(high level) and disposition is fully committed, can continues
teaching profession more than 10 years