​Expert Blindness | The Problem With Expertise

Jared Cooney Horvath is a globally recognized Science of Learning expert committed to helping teachers, students and parents achieve better outcomes through applied brain and behavioral science.

The Blind Leading The Blind ...

Teaching is seemingly the only degreed profession that lay-people think they naturally understand and can perform well without any formal training.

“He who can does; He who cannot teaches”.

This well-worn quote -- which characterizes teaching as an innate skill that everyone possesses, but only the most incapable ever need rely upon -- is misleading and demeaning.

By no means does domain expertise equate to effective teaching.

Termed ‘expert blindness’, individuals who attain fluency within a particular field typically struggle to remember what it was like to be a novice ...

Accordingly, as their knowledge grows, their ability to communicate their understanding and/or teach others often gets worse and worse.

In my latest 'From Theory to Practice' video, I take a look at a new piece of research that digs deeper into this topic:

Expert Blind Spot Among Preservice Teachers (Nathan and Petrosino | Dec 2003)

Here are some of the questions I tackle in this installment:

Give it a watch, and let me know what you think in the YT comments section.

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