The main point about this switch is that you once again make you practice explicit, so that you can look straight at it and improve it. Student teachers have no choice about this; they can only learn to teach through explicitness, and implicit only comes with experience. But for you to move back into explicitness may at first feel artificial. It’s vital, because it’s a move away from the sort of skilled pragmatism with which most teachers (inevitably) operate. It’s true that to do this you may have to do some things that you associate with your initial training – researching, gathering evidence, evaluating, reading theory. But in truth it’s not a backward step. Perhaps we need to invent a new term for this kind of teacher – not student – teacher, but teacher-student, teacher-learner, or teacher-researcher.