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They should have an explicit repertoire of well-crafted explanations, examples and tasks for  \neach topic they teach.  \nGreat Teaching Toolkit Evidence Review | 17  \nSummary of Dimension 1  \nElements of Dimension 1  \n1  \nContent knowledge: A teacher’s knowledge and understanding of the subject(s)  \n2  \nPedagogical content knowledge:  \nWhile it has various nuanced definitions, the key idea to pedagogical content knowledge is that it is more than just knowledge about the content itself, but the learning associated with that particular content. PCK and content knowledge are included in separate elements, emphasing the difference between the two.  \n1.1 Having deep and fluent knowledge and flexible understanding of the content you are teaching  \n1.2 Knowledge of the requirements of curriculum sequencing and dependencies in relation to the content and ideas you are teaching  \n1.3 Knowledge of relevant curriculum tasks, assessments and activities, their diagnostic and didactic potential; being able to generate varied explanations and multiple representations/analogies/examples for the ideas you are teaching  \n1.4 Knowledge of common student strategies, misconceptions and sticking points in relation to the content you are teaching  \nThe first element of Dimension 1 is essentially content knowledge, of a deep and connected kind. Teachers need to know how different ideas in the subject or domain are related, similar, sequential, analogous or distinct. They need to have thought about, and have good answers to, the kinds of ‘Why?’ and‘What would happen if…?’ questions that students may ask and that teachers themselves should ask to promote connected and higher-order thinking.  \nThey should be able to solve the kinds of problems they must help students to solve, and to produce model answers that exhibit the skills and knowledge they need their students to learn, without errors. We might also include, under the heading of content knowledge, teachers’ theoretical knowledge of the domain of learning. An example would be the requirement for teachers of reading to understand morphology,“the ways in which morphemes communicate meaning and govern spelling construction”(Castles et al., 2018) . This requires more than just being able to read well themselves, but also to know about the fundamental anatomy of the reading process.  \nA second aspect moves us from what is usually classified as ‘content knowledge’(CK) to ‘pedagogical content knowledge’ (PCK) . This distinction was originally made by Shulman (1986; see also Ball et al., 2008), though a range of different interpretations of PCK have since been offered. This aspect of PCK involves knowing and being able to explain the dependencies and connections among different parts of the curriculum, and hence the requirements for sequencing. If you want students to learn a specific topic, what knowledge and skills must they have already to enable this new learning? If a student is struggling with a particular idea or technique, what kinds of gaps in underpinning knowledge might be the explanation? For each new idea, what connections do learners need to make with previous knowledge? This kind of teacher curriculum knowledge is exemplified in curriculum planning, schemes of work and lesson plans that depend on correct sequencing and planned reactivation of prior knowledge.  \nGreat Teaching Toolkit Evidence Review | 18  \n3  \nDidactic:  \nA didactic task is one in which information is explicitly transferred to a learner.  \nDirect instruction:  \nDirect instruction has taken on many meanings. In this particular example, it refers to a particular programme of specific, generally scripted, practices.  \nThe third element of this ","cbCaiiC3cePLOAim","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiC3cePLOAim","pdf",234824,"English","# Understanding the Content\n## Summary of Dimension 1\n## Elements of Dimension 1\n### Content knowledge\n### Pedagogical content knowledge\n### Didactic tasks and direct instruction","[{\"question\":\"What makes great teachers understand the content they teach?\",\"answer\":\"They develop deep and fluent knowledge, flexible understanding, and awareness of inherent dependencies in learning. They also build a repertoire of well-crafted explanations, examples, and tasks for each topic.\"},{\"question\":\"How is pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) different from content knowledge (CK)?\",\"answer\":\"PCK goes beyond knowing the content itself by focusing on how that content is learned. 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