Developing Perceptive Teachers: Moving Past Skills and Knowledge in Teacher Education

• In Event: Curriculum, Curriculum Theory, and Cultural Issues in Education

Abstract

This paper examines the process of developing perceptive teaching in pre-service teachers by focusing on their beliefs, intentions, and actions, the three entities that comprise a disposition and the eight qualities of perceptive teaching. Building on a theoretical framework grounded in culturally responsive pedagogy & motivation/educational psychology research (Authors 1), this paper moves beyond a focus on skill and content knowledge in considering how perceptive teaching qualities are developed in emerging teachers to ensure they are enacted in the classroom. The Perceptive Teaching Enactment Process (PTEP) put forth in this paper, links the identification of beliefs to increased consciousness and heightened self-awareness in order to develop intentions that result in purposeful actions in the classroom.

Author

• Bradley M. Conrad, Capital University