Teacher training

This hands-on guide helps teachers understand the complexity and humanity behind school safety and security issues-and their role in promoting, using their professional knowledge and expertise, a safe school environment.

A unique resource that uses a case stories approach to support pre-service teachers in developing their skills.

Designing Intersectional Online Education provides expansive yet accessible examples and discussion about the intentional creation of online teaching and learning experiences that critically center identity, social systems, and other important ideas in design and pedagogy.

This volume presents a mix of translations of classical and modern papers from the German Didaktik tradition, newly prepared essays by German scholars and practitioners writing from within the tradition, and interpretive essays by U.

Originally published as a special issue of the Middle School Journal, this book presents integrative curriculum as a foundational element of the middle school.

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.

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.

All schoolteachers are involved in pastoral care, either in their roles as form teachers or year tutors or more generally in their everyday contact with children.

Teachers and Teaching in Vocational and Professional Education introduces a critical understanding of how teachers deliver occupational or vocational courses at various academic levels.

First published in 1981.

The 'Get to Know Me' series is aimed at children with additional needs and those who support them in the classroom.

This useful reference book offers authoritative yet accessible answers to common questions posed by new and trainee teachers as they face the practical everyday questions that arise from entering the classroom for the first time.

Enlivening Secondary History is the ideal handbook for busy history teachers who want to do something different in their classrooms, but have little time to plan and organise their lessons.

Originally published in 1994.

If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you.

Discover how to design innovative learning environments that increase student ownership so they can achieve at high levels and meet rigorous standards.

In November 2008, John Hattie's ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning.

This book reveals the intricacies of the Indian education system, especially those that surged in the past decade.

There is an increasing population of students coming to college who challenge and frustrate staff.

This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have occurred in the last decade.

Through a critical-ecological lens, this book examines how to prepare preservice teachers to be resourceful and responsive practitioners in addressing the intellectual needs of children often labeled as "e;culturally and linguistically diverse.

A practical toolkit for educational professionals working in the continuing professional development of teachers.

Expert-led, interdisciplinary, and international in scope, this insightful book aims to increase the representation and leadership potential of women working in academia, examining the intersection of multiple inequalities with a specific focus on gender, age, ethnicity, and disability.

This second edition of the alternative grading classic revisits specs grading with a robust body of research, exemplars, and strategies to elevate the quality of student work, increase engagement and buy-in, reduce faculty stress, and cultivate students' career competencies.

This successful guide--now in a revised and expanded second edition--gives teachers effective strategies to support adolescents development of relevant literacy skills in specific disciplines.

Pressure is increasing on all those involved in education, from teachers to policy-makers, to transform schools as organisations, while continuing to implement effective new approaches to teaching and learning.

This accessible text focuses on diversity in education and the inclusion of all children and young people in all aspects of the school or college community.

The Magic of Mentoring offers an introduction to the theory and practice of successful mentoring together with a unique focus on how mentors can reflect on the skills they bring to the role, and those they still need to develop.

How can qualitative researchers make the case for the value of their work in a climate that emphasizes so-called "e;scientifically-based research?

Offering research on afterschool literacy programs designed around teacher-student collaborative inquiry groups, this book demonstrates how adolescent learning is uniquely successful when grounded in dialogic conversation.

Internationally, there is a growing body of research about learners' responses to, and uses of, emerging technologies.

What makes girls avoid math, science, and technology in school?

First Published in 2004.

Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents' rights.

Written from a critical perspective, this volume provides teachers, teacher educators, and classroom researchers with a conceptual framework and practical methods for teaching and researching the disciplinary literacy development of English language learners (ELLs).

John R.

This book provides an answer to one of the key questions of our time: namely, what constitutes a good education.

First published in 1986.

More publication by contingent faculty, Guglielmo and Gaillet contend, enriches and deepens both the scholarly conversation and individual faculty's work as teacher-scholars.

This book revolves around curriculum making, reciprocal learning, and the best-loved self.

Written by the director and staff of the first, and one of the largest, teaching centers in American higher education - the University of Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) - this book offers a unique perspective on the strategies for making a teaching center integral to an institution's educational mission.

Big Ideas in Primary Science: Understanding the Climate Crisis takes a fresh approach to learning the science of climate change.

The second edition of this core text from Learning Matters asks: What is teaching?

Learning for Uncertainty explores technology's role in education, specifically unpacking the question: How should educators prepare today's children for a world that has yet to be made?

World Music Pedagogy, Volume IV: Instrumental Music Education provides the perspectives and resources to help music educators craft world-inclusive instrumental music programs in their teaching practices.

This book explores how mindfulness has been infused into education to produce favorable outcomes, such as stress reduction, heightened focus, resilience, calmness, alertness, mood regulation, self-awareness, professional commitment, and increased compassion and kindness to self and others.