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The Expert Teacher is a wide-ranging and erudite volume on what it means not just to know the content of our subject, but to understand how to teach our subject. It successfully combines links to academic research with a distillation of both Darren's and others' years of practice and collaboration, and ultimately provides a framework for improvement for all teachers.

Through the lens of pedagogical content knowledge, we are taken through our students' learning journey and their misconceptions to the destination where the important knowledge and skills have been embedded and become part of their constitution. The distinction of the expert teacher from the novice teacher is humanely explored too, making it clear that - just as our students have a hard path to follow - all teachers must accept the hard graft required to gain expertise in our chosen profession.



This book will prove to be thought-provoking and challenging, and is worth careful contemplation and regular revisiting.