Teacher training

How can we really evaluate teacher effectiveness?

This book brings together researchers from Israel and Canada to discuss the challenges today's teachers and teacher-educators face in their practice.

Tony Eaude argues that the foundations of a robust but flexible identity are formed in early childhood and that children live within many intersecting and sometimes conflicting cultures.

Supporting Student Mental Health is a guide to the basics of identifying and supporting students with mental health challenges.

This book argues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great admirer of science.

The second edition of Giving a Lecture builds upon the reputation and success of the Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education series.

First published in 1992.

The workplace has significant influence over our sense of wellbeing.

Mathematics Teacher Noticing is the first book to examine research on the particular type of noticing done by teachers---how teachers pay attention to and make sense of what happens in the complexity of instructional situations.

"e;Every teacher in English is a teacher of English,"e; said George Sampson, one of the early school inspectors, back in 1921.

Through stories from kindergarten to sixth grade classrooms where students and teachers have attempted to put a critical edge on their teaching, this book shows critical literacy in action across the curriculum.

This book examines minban teacher policies and their implementation in China between 1949 and 2000, when rural areas were in severe shortage of qualified teachers.

This novel, edited volume looks at a previously under-researched area of language teacher agency and identity by exploring the experience of novice pre- and in-service teachers for whom English is a second language and presents research gathered from Asia, Europe, South America, and the US to bring underrepresented voices to the fore.

In British society, we celebrate diversity and champion equality across many areas, such as race and religion.

This book documents the "e;brave new world"e; of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the United States in recent years.

Self-care involves taking action to support, protect or maintain wellbeing.

How can you ensure students are engaged and learning at deeper levels?

In Practical Knowledge in Teacher Education, expert contributors from across Asia and Europe explore and reflect upon the innovation and creativity in teacher education programs.

Being a leader in education is an always-on job.

Since its first publication, Action Research: Principles and Practice has become a key text in its field.

In 2007, the Monash-Kings College London International Centre for the Study of Science and Mathematics Curriculum edited a book called The Re-emergence of Values in Science Education.

This timely volume opens a window on issues related to English language education in Vietnam.

Critical Pedagogy addresses the shortcomings of mainstream educational theory and practice and promotes the humanization of teacher and student.

The Complete Multifaith Resource for Primary Religious Education Ages 7-11 is a definitive teaching and learning aid for cross-religious exploration in the classroom, offering stimulating and detailed ways in which to apply a concepts-based approach to the teaching of RE.

'[A] really important book [.

Are you sick of classroom management advice that doesn't match your daily existence or address the realities of the classroom?

These proceedings present a selection of papers from the ICTTE 2021 conference.

Taking the concept and the practice of reflective teaching forward, this book introduces a well-structured, flexible framework for use by teachers at all levels of development, from pre-service to novice to the most experienced.

What do great leaders need to do to run great schools?

Providing practical guidance on enhancing learning through ICT in the arts, this book is made up of a series of projects that supplement, augment and extend the QCA ICT scheme and provide much-needed links with Units in other subjects' schemes of work.

Drawing from an arts-based research and humanizing methodologies, Dywanna Smith documents transformative and liberatory spaces in ELA middle level classrooms, where students address and counteract discrimination, colorism, sizism, and body shaming.

Throughout this book, the authors emphasize that primary science is at its best as a practical, hands-on experience for children.

Children are 'hard-wired' to learn and they learn best by being active and autonomous - exploring, discovering, creating and taking risks, in other words, by playing.

First published in 1985.

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?

Be inspired to enhance classroom learning with this textbook, by highly respected and experienced author Louise Burnham.

How can educators work together more effectively to improve professional practice in a way that enhances student performance?

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language Teaching defines Chinese language teaching in a pedagogical, historical, and contemporary context.

This book draws on scholarly expertise across the former Soviet Union to provide a comparative analysis of the policies and practices that are discussed within the context of global reform of teacher education.

Consent in the Childhood Classroom challenges typical premises of social and emotional learning, self-regulation, and putative misbehavior by centering the theme of consent in the experiences of young children and their teachers.

There has been an explosion of interest in teaching excellence in higher education.

Culturally Responsive Education: Reflections from the Global South and North examines culturally responsive education's contribution to sustainable development and explores ways in which educational practitioners respond to cultures in and around educational contexts.

An essential introduction to developing research skills and conducting practitioner research in the field of education.

This edited volume addresses the pressing imperative to understand and attend to the needs of the fast-growing population of minority students who are increasingly considered "e;superdiverse"e; in their cultural, linguistic, and racial backgrounds.

What do we mean by creativity?

Successful teachers are able to motivate and inspire the children they teach and this is a skill that can only be supported by understanding good practice.

This book is a guide to current research and debate in the field of literacies practice and education.

How as a society can we find ways of ensuring the people who are the most vulnerable or have little voice can avail themselves of the protection in law to improve their social, cultural, health and economic outcomes as befits civilised society?

This volume offers a comprehensive international response to the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)'s inquiry into the future of lifelong learning in the UK.