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Teacher Resistance To Implementation, Ken R. Badley

Faculty Publications - College of Education

Excerpt: "When teachers first confront the requirement that they implement some new idea or method into their teaching, they can respond in any of several ways. If we view on a continuum the many possible responses to such a requirement, we will see on one end those teachers who flatly refuse to make any changes. They may rationalize that their pedagogy requires no change or that they already know better than curriculum designers and consultants what needs to occur in their own classrooms and' even in classrooms in general. Jumping to the other extreme of our continuum, we find those …