Teacher training

Offering updated references, questions for reflection, the latest case studies, and current advice relating to data protection and storage, this second edition of Enhancing Practice through Classroom Research provides an accessible introduction to understanding and improving teaching and learning through a process of reflection, research, and action.

This collection traces the development and findings of curriculum studies of environmental education since the mid-1970s.

Both practical and inspiring, this book is designed to empower educators and school leaders to make clear and simple adjustments to their practice for a lasting impact on the happiness and well- being of staff and children and ultimately on academic standards.

Setting a common international agenda for physical education, this book asks how physical education and physical education teacher education can be reconfigured together so that they are responsive to changes in today's fast-paced, diverse and uncertain global society.

We know that successful teachers need to use a range of teaching strategies, but what are they?

In this comprehensive and detailed analysis of recent research on encouraging reflective practices in TESOL, Farrell demonstrates how this practice has been embraced within TESOL and how it continues to impact the field.

This book should be read by everyone who wants to understand special education today.

English is the most widely taught and learned language in the world and is used for communication among speakers from different language backgrounds.

The Little Book of Reflective Practice is bursting with big ideas which will encourage you to be curious, reflective and courageous in your professional learning journey.

Teacher professional development is often promoted as a panacea for improving schools but it rarely lives up to its promise.

I m not sure how to help my child with schoolwork.

In Knowing and Learning as Creative Action, Aaron Stoller makes the case that contemporary schooling is grounded in a flawed model of knowing, which draws together mistakes in thinking about the nature of the self, of knowledge, and of reality, which are contained in the epistemological proposition: 'S knows that p' (SP).

Men Teaching Children 3-11 provides a comprehensive exploration of work experiences of men who teach young children.

First published in 1973, this book is based on research carried about by Ronald King on integral parts of school organisation, including the assembly, uniform, rewards and punishments, games and out-of-school activities, curriculum, prefectorial system and school councils, in a sample of seventy-two schools.

This text provides a discussion of the meaning of teacher professionalism and how it can be improved.

This guide charts the NQT's next steps in teaching from finishing a teacher training programme, through to the probationary year, and then into the comparatively settled routine of the second and third years of teaching.

En este libro innovador, una de las principales autoridades mundiales en el desarrollo de sistemas educativos inclusivos aborda el mayor reto al que se enfrentan los sistemas educativos de todo el mundo: lograr escuelas que sean efectivas para la educación de todos los estudiantes.

This book is a collection of six case studies of teacher agency in action, centering on voices of educators who engaged in activist work throughout the history of education in the US.

Focused on engaging all students, Inclusive Teaching in the Early Childhood Science Classroom walks readers through the process of planning, developing, and implementing science instruction for early learners.

The Sixth Edition of this comprehensive resource helps future and practicing teachers recognize and assess literacy problems, while providing practical, effective intervention strategies to help every student succeed.

This book generates a fresh, complex view of the process of globalization by examining how work, scholarship, and life inform each other among intercultural scholars as they navigate their interpersonal relationships and cross boundaries physically and metaphorically.

Drawing on in-depth interviews, this text examines how Asian American teachers in the US have adapted, persisted, and resisted racial stereotyping and systematic marginalization throughout their educational and professional pathways.

At The MTPT Project we know that teaching can be a sustainable career choice for parents, and in this essential handbook, we show you how.

This book responds to the call for praxis in L2 education by documenting recent and ongoing projects around the world that see partnership with classroom teachers as the essential driver for continuing to develop both classroom assessment practice and conceptual frameworks of assessment in support of teaching and learning.

Gender in Learning and Teaching brings together leading gender and feminist scholars to provide a unique collection of international research into learning and teaching.

Covering both Primary and Secondary teaching, this handbook offers support to those delivering school-based teacher training.

Mathematics education in the United States can reproduce social inequalities whether schools use either "e;basic-skills"e; curricula to prepare mainly low-income students of color for low-skilled service jobs or "e;standards-based"e; curricula to ready students for knowledge-intensive positions.

This book challenges educational discourse in relation to teaching about Africa at all levels of the education system in the Global North, with a specific case study focusing on the Republic of Ireland.

Building Strong Music Programs uniquely focuses on music programs in the public school community, providing strategies and tools for developing a vibrant music program and building community support.

This book focuses on the present development, gradual evolution, and current status of social work continuing education.

Hope and Healing in Urban Education proposes a new movement of healing justice to repair the damage done by the erosion of hope resulting from structural violence in urban communities.

For nearly 200 years the organisational form of the school has changed little.

This book explores innovative pedagogical practices and teaching and learning strategies in the engineering curriculum for empowered learning.

Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom.

Supporting new teachers is a common challenge globally and the European Commission has recently emphasised the need to promote a lifelong continuum of teachers professional development by building bridges between pre-service and in-service teacher education.

We know that educators and education systems at large face countless decisions every day.

Covering everything you need to know about teaching within the UK higher education system, this book is the ideal introduction for anyone looking to start their teaching career.

Dealing with poor behaviour is exhausting and stressful.

Gerald Grace here explores the concept of role conflict and the current theorizing about the problems of the teacher's role.

In Search of Wholeness: African American Teachers and their Culturally Specific Classroom Practices is a theoretical and practice-oriented treatment of how culture and race influence African American teachers.

First published in 1975.

Hopkins, Bruce Joyce, Michael Huberman, Matthew Miles, and Virginia Richardson.

Burnout runs rampant in education, particularly in the field of special education, and has only increased with the rise of virtual and remote learning.

This book is a comprehensive guide to an effective Science Education Fellowship (SEF) program.

This collection is focused on the possibilities for unbinding people from gendered expectations in and around educational spaces, and accounts for the ways gender is reconstituted in and through education.

Education has become a political, economic and social priority for Australia, with the success of schools (and teachers) being an integral part of the economic and social future of the country.

This fully updated third edition of Jumpstart!