The role of core practices, critical thinking and communication skills in the development of teacher adaptive expertise
Article / Journal
Author(s) / editor(s):
Alejandra Meneses
,
Danilo Alvares
,
María Graciela Veas
,
Rosario García
,
Silvana Arriagada
,
and Miguel Nussbaum
Year: 2025
Language(s): English
Abstract:
The study investigates how twenty-first-century skills support pre-service teachers’ mastery of core teaching practices in contexts of global change and uncertainty. A learning sequence was designed for 71 future teachers to develop adaptive expertise through the core practice of instructional explanations and related pedagogical reasoning, using student-facing explanatory videos. ANOVA results show significant improvement in this core practice and in critical thinking and communication skills for noticing and enacting tasks. Regression analyses indicate that critical thinking performance on the final task predicts skill in noticing the core practice, but not in enacting it. The study proposes a framework that integrates practice-based teacher education with twenty-first-century skills to foster adaptive expertise
https://doi.org/10.1080/1475939X.2025.2553581
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