Highly Accomplished Teachers: “Expert” Teachers, Are They a Key Remedy?

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Thursday 9:50 a.m.

Session Type: Poster Session

Abstract

The USA’s Highly Accomplished Teacher [HAT] is the world’s most durable model of expert teaching, established 1987. What is the evidence that it has fulfilled its purpose and/or has a substantive effect on improving social justice, one of its core principles? It is one example of the global phenomenon of ‘expert teacher models’ in numerous countries, which can be durable or relatively temporary, subject to abolition or adaptation. This paper analyses the models e.g. the USA [HAT, extant], Scotland, Chartered Teacher [abolished], England, Advanced Skills Teacher [Abolished], Chartered Teacher, England [extant] and an emergent, ‘quasi’ model, The Lead Practitioner, England [extant]. Are these models significant to the future of the teaching profession and especially to challenging racism and structural inequality?

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 08: Teachers’ Lives, Identities, and Journeys

Papers

• 24. Highly Accomplished Teachers: “Expert” Teachers, Are They a Key Remedy? (Poster 24) - Andy C. Goodwyn, University of Reading