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The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• A Personal Response to those Who Bash Teacher Education (2000) · doi

  Among other responses, it is argued that contextual knowledge of classrooms and schools is crucial for novice teachers; raw intelligence is insufficient for accomplished teaching; and as in other fields, accomplished performance will develop—if it ever develops—only over many years of effortful, deliberate practice.

  Keywords: accomplished among responses argued contextual knowledge classrooms schools crucial novice teachers intelligence insufficient teaching fields
• Learning to Lead Reading Comprehension Discussion (2015) · doi

  Crucially, the innovation found that ‘learning’ the new strategies was insufficient; teachers needed professional support from the teacher trainers and their collaborating colleagues as well as time—over three years—to develop their expertise and their confidence in the implementation of the new strategies.

  Keywords: strategies crucially innovation found learning insufficient teachers needed professional support teacher trainers collaborating colleagues well
• Comprehension Teaching Strategies That Teachers Use to Teach Learners' Comprehension Skills in the Secondary Schools of Malawi (2025) · doi

  This study’s findings mainly revealed that teachers used eleven research-based strategies, but inadequately, due to insufficient knowledge of teaching strategies obtained during initial teacher training and from experienced teachers, as a result, which could not enable them to explicitly teach the learners' comprehension skills.

  Keywords: teachers strategies mainly revealed used eleven based inadequately insufficient knowledge teaching obtained initial teacher training