Expert teachers interpret classroom events more analytically and focus on learning consequences, while novices emphasize student behavior¶

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q2 i? Expert teachers assign deeper meaning to classroom events and focus on learning quality, whereas novices describe events in detail with little deeper analysis and attribute problems to student behavior. → Charlotte E. Wolff 2020

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Charlotte E. Wolff 2020¶

Charlotte E. Wolff, Halszka Jarodzka, Henny P.A. Boshuizen. (2020). Classroom Management Scripts: a Theoretical Model Contrasting Expert and Novice Teachers' Knowledge and Awareness of Classroom Events. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09542-0

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The article's synthesis of expert-novice research (citing Sabers et al. 1991) reports that experts' event commentary is more analytical while novices' is detailed but shallow. Experts "put more emphasis on the quality of learning, considering both students and the teacher as potential sources of problems" (Wolff et al. 2015), while novices cite students as the source of problems.

"when commenting on classroom events, expert teachers assign deeper meaning to classroom events, and their perceptions are more analytical and comprehensive; novices typically describe events in detail, but offer little evidence of deeper thought or analysis"

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