Teacher training

Poole's book illuminates the experiences and perspectives of host country national teachers at internationalised schools in China.

How does a teacher know whether he or she is benefitting learners?

This is a book for all faculty who are concerned with promoting the persistence of all students whom they teach.

Research has proven that childhood trauma affects school engagement and success while at the same time recognizing that the majority of students have experienced it.

Learn how to ask deeper questions and develop better questioning habits with this important resource.

Why do new teachers change schools or leave the profession?

This book explores major factors impacting on teacher education in recent times.

Effective Techniques to Motivate Mathematics Instruction offers pre-and in-service teachers best practices and techniques that can be used to motivate students in the first few minutes of any lesson in mathematics.

The Handbook of Instructional Communication offers a comprehensive collection of theory and research focusing on the role and effects of communication in instructional environments.

First published in 2001.

At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path?

Why are so many teachers leaving the profession increasingly early in their careers?

Educational researchers, policy-makers and practitioners are increasingly focusing their attention on Professional Learning Networks in order to facilitate teacher development and encourage school and school system improvement.

This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum.

This collection brings together international teacher educators to employ a 'long view' of an historic and values-based dialectic in teacher education.

This book is one of a set of eight innovative yet practical resource books for teachers, focussing on the classroom and covering vital skills for primary and secondary teachers.

Supporting and challenging cooperating teachers to grow in their mentoring and coaching practices with preservice teachers and also in their own work as classroom teachers, this practical guide presents and illustrates the Coaching with CARE model-a framework for reflection and action that helps cultivate a perspective on teaching that puts students at the center of teacher preparation and places value on apprenticeship and participation in learning.

In Through a Different Lens, Ger Graus, a global authority on education, especially in the areas of experience-based learning and human potential, gives us a unique and invaluable perspective on education, children, and schooling.

Teacher Subject Identity in Professional Practice focuses on a key, but neglected, element of a teacher's identity: that of their subject expertise.

Designed to help student teachers develop an approach to teaching that is both theoretical and practical, this text focuses on key aspects of teaching rather than trying to "e;cover the waterfront.

Change Forces With a Vengeance is the third in the chaos theory trilogy (now called complexity theory).

Literacy and Reading Programmes for Children and Young People: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents interviews with over 40 librarians from around the world who tell of their library programs.

Humanizing LIS Education and Practice: Diversity by Design demonstrates that diversity concerns are relevant to all and need to be approached in a systematic way.

Anyone who spends time with children knows that praise works.

Now available in paperback, the sixth edition of this definitive text provides students a strong background in the conceptual, theoretical, and philosophical issues in multicultural education from a leading authority and scholarly leader of the field---James A.

This guide helps faculty and student affairs practitioners better serve graduate and professional school students as they navigate what can be an isolating, taxing, and unfamiliar context.

This book examines the push and pull of factors contributing to and constraining conversion of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education programs into STEAM (science, technology, engineering, math and arts) education programs.

Despite the multifaceted complexity of teaching, dominant perspectives conceptualize teacher development in linear, dualistic, transactional, human-centric ways.

This invaluable resource offers a wealth of strategies enabling you to support children with autism in the mainstream classroom.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the theoretical background and practice of physics teaching and learning and assists in the integration of highly interesting topics into physics lessons.

This volume focuses on the post-observation feedback conference, a common feature of teacher education programs, and highlights the importance of such talk in the development and evaluation of teachers and other professionals.

Teachers evaluate students' work constantly.

This book distils key research and evidence about what effective teaching means in practice.

The justification for smaller classes has traditionally been that students can receive more individual attention and be provided with a curriculum that promotes student centred learning.

Education is generally supposed to help learners to develop new capacities and to be able to apply them in work and life - yet we still know very little about how to build useful capacities.

Growing Up with Two Languages provides a highly accessible account of the stages of language development, describes and evaluates the various systems and strategies that can be adopted and looks at the problems that can occur when a child is exposed to two languages and cultures.

This book offers a comprehensive, accessible introduction to teaching and learning business.

This is a book by educators, for educators.

This book helps you sharpen your ability to hire better teachers for your school, improve the ones who are already there, and keep your best and brightest on board.

Through conversations in honor of Dale D.

This book provides a step-by-step guide to teaching computing at secondary level.

Trainee teachers encounter a whole new language when they start their training.

In an increasingly centralized education system, how can teachers recover the freedom to make their own decisions?

Who am I?

World Music Pedagogy, Volume VI: School-Community Intersections provides students with a resource for delving into the meaning of "e;world music"e; across a broad array of community contexts and develops the multiple meanings of community relative to teaching and learning music of global and local cultures.

Ultimately concerned with how citizenship education for peace can be enriched through interdisciplinary learning, this edited volume reveals the role of peace education in global citizenship by illuminating instruction for comprehensive citizenship.

Systematic Classroom Assessment promotes a fresh vision of assessment for student learning and achievement.

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

In the spirit of encouraging international dialogue between researchers and practitioners, often working within isolated traditions, this book discusses perspectives on science education for the gifted informed by up-to-date research findings from a number of related fields.