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Room to breathe: Insights from pre-service teachers and NQTs on professional development through informal complementary placements overseas (2014)
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Knight, B. (2014, September). Room to breathe: Insights from pre-service teachers and NQTs on professional development through informal complementary placements overseas. Paper presented at British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2014, London, UK

Teaching is a complex affair in which teachers manage a range of classroom variables and dynamics in the pursuit of pupil learning. Teacher education and NQT probationary monitoring tends to focus attention on systems and protocols such as planning,... Read More about Room to breathe: Insights from pre-service teachers and NQTs on professional development through informal complementary placements overseas.

Professionalism under fire: Whatever happened to teacher autonomy, judgement and intuition? (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Knight, B. (2012, September). Professionalism under fire: Whatever happened to teacher autonomy, judgement and intuition?. Paper presented at NaPTEC, Oxford

The article is an overview of a study examining teacher action in the moment; teachable moments (TMs). Literature on teaching is dominated by the organisation of learning and general principles of classroom management and can easily overlook the det... Read More about Professionalism under fire: Whatever happened to teacher autonomy, judgement and intuition?.