Teacher training

Published in 1978, this is a concise and practical guide to the use of linguistic theory and analytical techniques in English language teaching at secondary and tertiary levels of education.

Now in a fully revised third edition, How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 5-9 is a practical, activity-based resource of poetry writing workshops.

This book aims to develop high school and undergraduate students' covariational reasoning and algebraic skills to succeed in calculus and STEM subjects.

This book is designed to be of interest to many different audiences due to its cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary content.

The Student Teacher's Handbook, Fourth Edition is a practical, user-friendly text that employs scientific research, sound advice, and student journal entries to encourage, sustain, and challenge the readers to function at their best during the crucial days of student teaching.

The authors provide teachers and school leaders concrete suggestions to address workplace relationships; to respond to intergroup conflict; to create positive exchanges among different ethnic groups of teachers; and to create a strategic process to address diversity issues.

Teachers and Teacher Unions in a Globalised World asks a series of pressing questions of teacher educators, teachers and teacher unions worldwide in this era of global capitalism.

New from best-selling authors Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker, 50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior: Simple Solutions to Complex Challenges is a must-read reference for teachers, both new and experienced!

Seeking the Mystical Child: Nurturing Young Children's Identity, Faith, and Belief by Danette Littleton and Meryl Sole is a unique book that presents insights into children's unnoticed spiritual worlds.

In this book Apple explores the 'conservative restoration' - the rightward turn of a broad-based coalition that is making successful inroads in determining American and international educational policy.

Migration for educational purposes, once the privilege of the upper class, has become a global mass phenomenon in recent years.

How can teacher educators provide prospective teachers with a philosophical foundation for dimensions of teaching associated with responsiveness to students?

Introducing: 20 key educational thinkers who have offered challenging perspectives on educationExploring: Their ideas, how to apply them in practice and their relevance to teaching and learning today.

Responding to a challenge posed by state and independent school leaders, Ian Wigston put together a team of experienced leaders from business, the public sector and the military to enable nearly a hundred women to explore their potential for school leadership.

This revised and updated third edition offers a range of strategies, activities and ideas to bring mathematics to life in the primary classroom.

This handbook is the perfect introductory volume for new graduate teaching assistants (TAs).

Originally published in 1986.

Readings for Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education is a unique portable library of exceptional readings drawing together seminal extracts and contemporary literature from international sources from books and journals to support both initial study and extended career-long professionalism for further, adult and vocational education practitioners.

This manual provides advice on dealing with stress in teaching.

Learn how to incorporate rigorous activities into your English language arts or social studies classroom and help students reach higher levels of learning.

How can we ensure we use technology effectively with young children?

'Girls are worse than boys these days' was a common complaint from teachers in the 1970s.

This volume delves into the evolving landscape of education by examining innovative teaching practices across two distinct educational systems.

First published in 1974.

The government prioritizes systematic synthetic phonics as a key strategy in the teaching of reading.

The education of second language teachers takes place across diverse contexts, levels, settings, and geographic regions.

Using cutting-edge and frontline research relating to present day problems in educational systems, this volume provides a critical discussion about political alternatives in education to neoliberalism.

Fieldwork in Educational Settings is widely recognised as part of the essential reading for the researcher in education.

Learning Outside the Classroom outlines theory and practice that will enable and encourage teachers to systematically and progressively incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities in a wide variety of environments and with diverse populations of pupils.

All areas of education policy and practice are driven by unconscious investments in ignorance, or idealised images of transformation of the individual, society and economy.

The mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is to establish high and rigorous standards for what teachers should know and be able to do, to certify teachers who meet those standards, and to advance other education reforms for the purpose of improving student learning in American schools.

Being taught by a great teacher is one of the great privileges of life.

Developing children's writing abilities boosts their confidence, creates enjoyment and relevance in the task and cultivates a range of decision-making and problem-solving skills that can then be applied across the curriculum.

Providing children with opportunities to talk about their learning enables teachers to hear what children are thinking.

Mentorship practice has been part of the human experience since the Golden Age of Greece.

Designing your Teaching Life is written for student teachers and their program-based mentors.

Teacher wellbeing, or a lack of it, is a major concern for the teaching profession.

Are you an academic leader or considering taking on a leadership position in the academy?

This book guides readers through the professional standards and requirements to reach Qualified Teacher Status, explaining what trainees need to know.

This volume delves into the evolving landscape of education by examining innovative teaching practices across two distinct educational systems.

What are the secrets to unlocking student success?

Professional learning and development by FE teachers, for FE teachers.

This concise yet thorough textbook presents an active-learning model for the teaching of computer science.

World Music Pedagogy, Volume V: Choral Music Education explores specific applications of the World Music Pedagogy process to choral music education in elementary, middle, and high school contexts, as well as within community settings.

This book provides a fresh approach to motivation in primary school children by exploring the role of metaphor and symbol in language and art as a means of expressing insights developed through learning.

How teachers might best be prepared to work in schools with an increasingly diverse pupil population is of concern to educational academics, professionals and governments around the world.

Pass the QTS Skills Test with Confidence is the must-have guide for all prospective trainee teachers.

This collection explores the changing meaning and enactments of care in teacher education in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, from preservice teachers and teacher candidates to in-service teachers and education faculty.