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To observe an expert teacher can be a confounding experience for some: -˜The students just got it', -˜He really has their behaviour under control', -˜I could never teach like her!' In The Expert Teacher, Darren Mead reminds us that these outcomes and expert teacher behaviours - and the planning of superb lessons - can be learned, but require careful consideration of the content to be studied: how it is best sequenced, taught and learned, and its relative conceptual importance. This is the tacit knowledge of the expert, a maestro. To possess this knowledge is remarkable enough; to be able to communicate it is a gift - though not to the possessor, but to those who they teach.



Rimsky-Korsakov gave us this gift in his teachings and writings on the orchestra. In The Expert Teacher, Darren Mead gives teachers that same gift.