Teacher training

The intent of this book is to describe how a professor can provide a learning en vironment that assists students to come to grips with the nature of science and engineering, to understand science and engineering concepts, and to solve problems in science and engineering courses.

K-12 schools and higher education institutions are experiencing steady racial and cultural shifts that are affecting interactions, relationships, and ultimately, school and student success.

"e;Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-making: Interpretive Acts of Teacher Educators"e; illustrates interim narrative field texts of identity as "e;teacher educator stories"e; and demonstrates how researchers utilize common places of temporality, sociality, and place in analyzing narratives.

The Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

This essential science methods resource integrates principles of learning and motivation with practical teaching ideas for the elementary and middle school science classroom.

Practitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage provides an accessible introduction to the Intangible Cultural Heritage field.

1,001 opportunities to hone your Praxis test-taking skills So, you're an aspiring teacher with your sights set on educating students.

How can we create effective partnerships between home, school and the community?

Ideal for preservice mathematics teachers who are taking methods courses or are student teaching, this research-based, activity-oriented guide offers a highly effective framework for teacher reflection and self-assessment.

Too often, students who fail a grade or a course receive remediation that ends up widening rather than closing achievement gaps.

This edited volume explores how Chinese school-based educators learn from others and attain awareness in dialogue with the world in an era of increasing globalization and information exchange.

A bullet dropped and a bullet fired from a gun will reach the ground at the same time.

Stoic wisdom has become popular for helping us focus on what we can and can't control in life.

This book explores the impacts of the introduction of new teacher evaluation policies on teachers and head teachers in Japan, particularly that of producing and reinforcing mutual policing relations among teachers and the destabilisation of their identities.

Research-Informed Teacher Learning explores career-long improvements in knowledge building and the skills required in curriculum reform, transformations in teaching methods, alterations to assessment, and restructurings in school administration and management.

With an increasing spotlight on early childhood education and care (ECEC), it's crucial that leaders and teachers in ECEC can evidence their intentions and show how they support the learning of both children and staff, through the promotion of excellent practice, improved child learning and family support.

Praise for What Our Stories Teach Us In her new book What Our Stories Teach Us, Linda Shadiow invites college faculty to use their personal and professional stories to reflect more critically and meaningfully on their teaching practice.

This thought-provoking collection examines the challenge of teacher shortages that is of international concern.

Iona and Peter Opie were twentieth-century pioneers.

If you are training to teach, The Trainee Teacher's Handbook is your essential training tool.

How can knowledge developed in one context be put to use in other contexts?

Placing Students at the Heart of Creative Learning shows teachers of key stages 2 and 3 how to introduce creativity into what is often seen as a prescriptive and stifling curriculum, and addresses the tensions that can exist between the requirement to follow the curriculum and the desire to employ innovative pedagogies.

The book presents up-to-date research on moral education teaching and teachers in China.

This new book in the Diverse Faculty in the Academy series pulls back the curtain on what Black women have done to mentor each other in higher education, provides advice for navigating unwelcoming campus environments, and explores avenues for institutions to support and foster minoritized women's success in the academy.

Becoming an Outstanding History Teacher will take the practitioner through the process of improving their practice from start to finish.

Mathematics Teaching On Target is a guidebook for improving mathematics teaching, based on the Teaching for Robust Understanding (TRU) Framework and its five dimensions - The Mathematics, Cognitive Demand, Equitable Access, Agency, Ownership, and Identity, and Formative Assessment.

Emergent Science is essential reading for anyone involved in supporting scientific learning and development with young children aged between birth and 8.

Primary curriculum design has been in sharp focus in recent years.

This powerful text encourages both pre-service and established teachers, as well as teacher educators, to engage with contemporary debates in primary education.

Michaela Community School in Brent, London is one of the most talked-about schools in the UK.

The book examines how to begin to think like a global educator first by examining how our own histories and experiences have formed our own cultural and professional identities and second how the varied frames by which global education can be understood - pedagogical, ideological and cosmopolitan - have shaped the field.

This best-selling book takes a practical look at how improvements can be made in any school.

This ground-breaking book is designed to raise awareness of human rights implications in psychology, and provide knowledge and tools enabling psychologists to put a human rights perspective into practice.

Dealing with parents can be scary and intimidating, especially when you are relatively new to your role, but it can also be hugely rewarding.

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process.

This textbook gives readers a clear overview of a selection of 19 of the most influential thinkers on education, including established names (Vygotsky, Bruner, Dewey), more recent thinkers (Freire, hooks, Claxton) and other key names whose writing has helped shaped our views on teaching and learning.

Team Being is a book about creative collaboration-what it is, how it works and how to maximize chances of doing it well.

This volume offers a progressive approach to secondary teaching and teacher training, with particular emphasis upon students and teachers collaborating to negotiate curriculum design--goals, content, methods, and assessment.

This book provides innovative, practical tools to help combat declining personal wellbeing in the higher education workplace.

An erosion of confidence in higher education institutions, particularly community colleges, is coming at a time when it can be ill-afforded as education costs increase and federal and public funding decrease.

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Phillip Hughes: International Educator, Scholar, Teacher This Festschrift is published in honour of Professor Phillip Hughes, an exceptional Australian educationalist and influential member of the international education c- munity.

This book charts the firsthand experiences and challenges faced by Maltese early childhood educators in the implementation of a novel approach to the curriculum: the replacement of a prescriptive curricula with one co-constructed by the educator and the child.

In Putting Teachers First, author and speaker Brad Johnson offers tons of invaluable tips for building and maintaining strong, dynamic relationships with your teachers, leading to greater job satisfaction, lower turnover, and improved performance across the board.

What are the secrets to unlocking student success?

"e;Finally a book about teaching that tells it like it is,"e; NEA Today said about Michael Gose's first edition, What It Means to Be a Teacher.

Young people are a vulnerable category of workers, finding themselves in a delicate phase of their working life: their first entry into the labour market.