Write a response essay to Kelchtermans’ quotation below by examining in depth your views of learning and teaching. As a ‘responsible professional actor’ in your work environment, we are asking you to consider the following: How do people learn? It is likely that there is no one way, so then how do those different ways interact? How should your teaching respond to those? How would these feed back into the ethos of the school? What evidence underpins these theories of learning and teaching?
‘Theoretical knowledge is not only relevant and necessary if teachers want to improve their teaching practice, but also – and maybe even more importantly – if they want to act as responsible professional actors in their work environment (as contrary to the teachers as just executors of policy decisions made by others and imposed on them).’ (Kelchtermans, 2013, p2)
