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Comfort Zone for Adaptive Expertise
Adaptive expertise connects so easily with 21st century skills
—School Counselor
The capacity to acquire expertise is one of the great and peculiar strengths of the human species (92). Teachers who have attained degrees and teaching credentials are “experts” in the art of pedagogy. Children who attend classes are also on their way to becoming experts at something. We are all experts in something. The question is, what kind of expert? This concept of expertise is not as simple as it first appears. In this chapter, we will explore what it means to be an “adaptive” expert as opposed to a “routine” expert, and how that might play out in your classroom. This particular nuance with regard to expertise is ...
