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This question weighs on many educators, researchers, politicians, and parents. Everyone seems to have his or her own solutions to offer. The public discourse  \naround teaching often feels very negative; it doesn’t clearly define teaching expertise, but it does reflect avery clear belief that many of us teachers just don’t have it. I’m not sure where this narrative of incompetence comes from, but I do know that we can’t fight it by simply saying,“No, we’re not.”  \nBryan Mascio taught for 12 years in New Hampshire, where he primarily worked with public school students who had been unsuccessful in traditional school settings. He is currently a doctoral candidate atthe Harvard Graduate School of Education, where heresearches the cognitive aspects of teaching and works with schools to support teacher and student relationships. Parts of this article appeared in Mascio’s blog entry “Who Are (and Should Be) the Teaching Experts?”for the Albert Shanker Institute on November 19, 2015, available at [www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/who-are-and-should-be-teaching-experts](www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/who-are-and-should-be-teaching-experts).  \nMany educators agree that to improve the profession, classroom teachers must be consulted and involved. To that end, we need to show those outside the classroom what teaching expertise looks like and where it resides: with actual classroom teachers.  \nWhen I hear respected public figures call for a focus on the “nuts and bolts” of teaching—in contrast to an emphasis on educational philosophy and theories of development—I fear what the repercussions might be. This recommendation is a common message, promoted both by those in academic research and by fasttracked teacher preparation programs. It implicitly sees academicsand researchers asthe primary generators and holders of expertise, and asks them to guide teachers and offer them insights. By mistaking—and at times even privileging—certain kinds of expertise, this view may inadvertently lay a path toward regarding teachers as technicians rather than the true professionals they are.  \nUniting Research and Practice  \nIn medicine, the fields of biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, and bioengineering, to name a few, contribute invaluable research  \n18 AMERICAN EDUCATOR | SUMMER 2016  \nused by doctors and hospitals to improve patient care. Researchers in these sciences are respected for their expertise and typically have far greater content knowledge than the average physician, but neither society northe medical field confuses the role of medical researcher with that of doctor.  \nResearch results in knowledge of average effects, common side effects, and how diseases typically present. Doctors use that knowledge and combine it with an understanding of clinical practice, the complex systems involved with human health, and details of their individual patient’s past and present health to create a clinical expertise. This is what makes them medical experts.  \nDoctors don’t ignore the research; they are keenly aware of what symptoms suggest pneumonia, for instance, and which antibiotics are most effective to treat it. But doctors also know that other illnesses could cause many similar symptoms; certain facts about an individual may make other illnesses more likely, so knowing an individual’s medical history is just as important. And if you are allergic to an antibiotic, it doesn’t matter how “effective”it is. Doctors don’t treat the average, the common, or the typical patient—they treat you, and that’s exactly what you want and expect them to do.  \nIn education, psychologists, neuroscientists, economists, and sociologists are among the important contributors to our knowledge of teaching and learning, and their research has been invaluable to those of us in the classroom. It has provided numerous ","cbCailWdJvVo1nNF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailWdJvVo1nNF","pdf",165405,"English","# Strengthening the Teaching Profession\n# Uniting Research and Practice","[{\"question\":\"Why does the article say public discourse about teaching often feels negative?\",\"answer\":\"It suggests public conversation does not clearly define teaching expertise, leading to a belief that many teachers lack it. 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