Comparison and Contrast between Surface Teaching and Deep Thinking “According to Webster’s Dictionary, a profession is defined as ‘a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation,” (Lynch 2015). Teaching, cognate copious other occupations, illustrates this definition, but moreover, teachers possess an obligation to acquire and retain extensive intelligence in their particular subject matter in the same practices as alternative professions, and in addition give their students the opportunity to realize and advance their own multiple intelligence. In this pursuit, a teacher can be classified in various divergent tiers including but not finite to “effective” …show more content…
“Expert teachers are more adept at monitoring student problems and assessing their level of understanding and progress, and they provide much more relevant, useful feedback,” (Hattie 2003). A good teacher will provide useful feedback that will enrich the students’ learning experiences, and an expert teacher will provide exactly the feedback students need in order to success because expert teachers have a higher level of receptivity to students who have lost interest and when students do not understand the knowledge at hand, but both provide students with feedback in order to gain more understanding in the …show more content…
deep thinking. Surface teaching’s chiefly priority is content and content knowledge or memorization whilst deep learning prime interest is understand the content knowledge provided or possessing the ability to operate such knowledge outside of the classroom (Hattie 2003). “The claim is that expert are more successful at both types of learning, whereas both experienced and expert teachers are similar in terms of surface learning. Surface knowledge, gaining a passing grade and memorizing the ideas and/ore facts, has a high priority, but even higher still should be an ultimate goal of all educators: deep thinking or relating knowledge and idea and having the ability to impose meaning in other areas of