Not exact matches
Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for
practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you
need 10,000 hours of
deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.
The principle that 10,000 hours of «
deliberate practice» are
needed to become world - class in any field may not be what it seems.
In addition, they
needed to accept that the
deliberate practice might very well be «effortful» and not «inherently enjoyable» (Schraw, 2005, p. 396).
Student A's interest was caught by the modelling and degree of importance we were giving to the
need for
deliberate practice of the specific exercises.
The project's curriculum uses research on motivation, Dweck's mindset theory, and something called
deliberate practice — the idea that you don't
need to have special talents to become good at something; you just
need to make a
deliberate effort to improve.
Paul quotes discusses Anders Ericsson's 1993 paper that makes that point that
practice by the learner
needs to be «
deliberate.»
This kind of expertise is much rarer than it should be — in large part because teacher preparation and professional training don't do the
deliberate practice, feedback, and working memory tasks
needed to cultivate expertise.
In Ericsson's formulation,
deliberate practice has several components: evaluating what
needs improvement, selecting one small aspect of the skill to work on, developing a strategy, and then evaluating the results of the revised performance.
Dr. Robert Marzano, researcher and author, «I am honored by the Department's selection, and will work closely with my partner, Learning Sciences International, to serve the
needs of Florida's districts with our model that incorporates contemporary research in effective teaching
practices, the development of expertise over time and the key concept of
deliberate practices to districts» teacher evaluation systems.»
Although some preparation programs require that students complete as many as 600 clinical training hours through student teaching, other programs — which are all low - quality alternative certification programs — report that their students did not complete any clinical training hours.25 Even the most intensive teacher preparation experiences pale in comparison with the 10,000 hours of
deliberate practice that researchers say are
needed to develop expertise in any given field.26 While there are isolated examples of excellent clinical residency models that provide students with ample time to
practice their skills in a classroom setting, 27 there is not an entire system that supports this approach.
But in schools that intensively applied the principles of PLC's — collective ownership of student results,
deliberate reflection on teaching
practices, explicit intervention for struggling students, and clear strategies for extending learning for students who
need it — the format dramatically improved results, and those improvements were greater the longer the schools implemented these collaborative
practices.
Deliberate practice, trading journals, and using demo accounts help a lot in developing those much -
needed skills.
What is
needed is a basic framework of understanding developed through structured learning and
deliberate practice.
Student narratives speak of how the school
practices that are informed by choice theory promote engagement through a
deliberate focus on developmental
needs.