Interviewing children as a tool for teachers’ professional development - A reaction to Doug Clarke’s plenary lecture

Abstract

First I like to thank the organizers of the PME 37 conference for inviting me to act as a reactor to this plenary talk of Doug Clarke. I hope that my somewhat provocative thoughts are stuff for further thinking about the valuable work of Doug Clarke and his colleagues. To put my critical remarks in the correct perspective, I have to tell you first that we in the Netherlands have been always a bit jealous about what you did in Australia and New Zealand. Although, we already started in the late 1990s with the development of teaching‐learning trajectories with in‐between attainment targets, we never did what they did, namely using these trajectories as an interview tool for professional development of teachers. I think this is a missed opportunity for getting better teachers.