Abstract
Nowadays educational challenges require increasing pedagogical tact of teachers. Intuition serves this swift and appropriate classroom action, but teachers are rarely encouraged to use it. This mixed methods study investigated the effects of intuition-focused professional development on teachers' pedagogical tact. Questionnaires measured teacher change, and showed large positive effects on teachers’ immediate pedagogical actions, and medium effects on the related classroom outcomes. Interviews with participants and their colleagues elaborated and explained positive changes in awareness of intuitions, and information processing, and classroom impact. This study defines and operationalizes intuitive pedagogical tact and describes meditative and embodied practices for enhancing it.
Highlights
Pedagogical tact refers to teachers' ability to act optimally in the moment when complex classroom situations arise (van Manen, 2006)
The present study investigates the presence and nature of effects engendered by a PD program that focused on developing intuition, for enhancing teachers' pedagogical tact
Being aware that the internal consistency of some elements was low, we calculated the change in perceived pedagogical tact at the overall and stage levels, but at element level as well
Summary
Pedagogical tact refers to teachers' ability to act optimally in the moment when complex classroom situations arise (van Manen, 2006). While teaching has always required the ability to act swiftly in contingent classroom situations (Eaude, 2014), the demands placed upon teachers are increasing due to the growing diversity of pupils' needs and expectations (Flores, 2017). Teacher pedagogical tact is a key quality, and knowledge about enhancing it is needed. The literature on pedagogical tact is primarily theoretical. van Manen (2015) suggested that teachers’ pedagogical tact develops in practice and by reflecting on experiences from the past. Even less scholarship has been devoted to empirical research on enhancing teacher pedagogical tact
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