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| Subject: Expert tells teachers to just shut up and listen Fri Jun 10, 2011 5:41 am | |
| JOHN HATTIE has spent his life studying the studies to find out what works in education. His advice to teachers? Just shut up.
Professor Hattie, appointed this year as the director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, says teachers need to stop spending 80 per cent of their time in class talking and start listening.
''When teachers stop talking deep learning takes place,'' he told a conference of educators at Parramatta yesterday.
''It's our concept of ourselves as teachers that we have knowledge and we need to impart it.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/just-shut-up-and-listen-expert-tells-teachers-20110609-1fv9y.html |
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