Teacher training

There is increasingly strong evidence that K-12 learners who assess each other's work and then engage in related reflections, discussions, and negotiations benefit mutually from the process.

This book brings together ongoing debates about personalised learning, creativity and ICT in education, with a cross-curricular focus, and establishes a principled framework for cross-curricular teaching and learning in Science.

An insightful inside perspective on the implementation of instructional improvement measures in a large urban K12 district

This book re examines the role of arts integration in the preschool and primary school curricula, arguing for the creation of an educational environment where children can process every taught subject as an aesthetic stimulus.

Real Talk for New Teachers helps beginning teachers develop their vision and orient their practice toward a personally fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable career.

Lollipop Logic employs visual and pictorial clues to introduce and reinforce high-powered thinking for pre-readers.

Within educational research, the over-disciplining of Black and Indigenous students is most often presented as a problem located within pathologized or misunderstood communities.

Creating a Classroom Community of Young Scientists helps teachers - both pre-service and in-service - to develop exciting science programs in their classrooms.

This edited volume is about diversifying the teaching profession.

This volume is important because despite various external representations, such as analogies, metaphors, and visualizations being commonly used by physics teachers, educators and researchers, the notion of using the pedagogical functions of multiple representations to support teaching and learning is still a gap in physics education.

Winning Online Instruction provides concise, pragmatic solutions to common challenges and demands that higher education faculty face in teaching online.

This book unpicks the complex, dynamic blend of individuals' psychological and professional assets, workplace conditions and leadership support which enable teachers who stay in teaching to continue to make a difference in their careers, regardless of shifts in policy, workplace, professional and personal circumstances.

The 'Get to Know Me' resources aim to support children, with those around them, who may have additional/special educational needs.

Musician-Teacher Collaborations: Altering the Chord explores the dynamics between musicians and teachers within educational settings, illustrating how new musical worlds are discovered and accessed through music-in-education initiatives.

The original Visible Learning research concluded that one of the most important influencers of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role.

This comprehensive volume synthesizes decades of experience from psychodrama educators around the world.

This essential text for prospective school leaders enrolled in instructional supervision and evaluation courses provides the knowledge and practical tools to improve teacher effectiveness.

Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice is a pioneering collection of essays focused on the place of character and virtue in professional practice.

Teacher education is experiencing a period of dramatic and arguably irrevocable change within a wider context of turbulence in the English education system.

The Teacher Toolkit Guides turn the theory of education into practical ideas for your classroom.

This book is a friendly and complete introduction to one of the most comprehensive contemporary theories of mathematics teaching and learning.

This accessible guide combines evidence-based research with practical experience to help develop effective communication skills for navigating difficult or challenging situations.

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.

Revision is often taken as a largely instrumental process which happens after the real work of writing is done - it is an unavoidable and tedious process.

This book presents a model of transformative, empowering and critically oriented language teacher education to prepare English teachers to implement Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT).

This book focuses on socio-cultural issues and the potential of using dioramas in museums to engage various audiences with - and in - contemporary debates and big issues, which society and the natural environment are facing, such as biodiversity loss.

Thriving in Part-Time Doctoral Study is a practical guide, designed to support part-time doctoral researchers in navigating their learning experience and providing them with the tools they need to succeed in academia, alongside the work and life challenges they may be facing.

Mentoring History Teachers in the Secondary School supports mentors to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding essential to the successful mentoring of beginning history teachers who are undertaking their initial teacher training or being inducted into the profession as early career teachers.

The term 'moral' has had a chequered history in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to the legacy of colonialism and Apartheid (in South Africa).

This volume explores the current state of student mental health and trauma while offering theories and practice of trauma-informed teaching and learning.

What does it mean to inquire?

Nurturing children and supporting their wellbeing is vitally important, along with looking after the wellbeing of the staff who support them.

Most teachers become heads for idealistic reasons, wanting to make a difference to the lives of children and young people.

Attitudes to bilingualism have always been contradictory.

Austrian economics is often criticized as being hostile to empirical research and seen purely as an ideology.

How do we get sixth-grade writers to revise?

Inclusion is much more than special needs - it's also about helping the hard to reach, the gifted and talented, those with English as an additional language and much more depending on your area and its social and cultural diversity.

Accessible and engaging, this text provides a comprehensive framework and practical strategies for infusing content-area instruction in math, social studies, and science into literacy instruction for grades K-6.

Critical participatory action research creates opportunities for people to work together to solve problems and address issues about the conditions under which they work, through mutually agreed on actions in practice.

Service-Learning and Social Justice provides everything administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice.

Students who know how to collaborate successfully in the classroom will be better prepared for professional success in a world where we are expected to work well with others.

Science learning that takes place between and at the intersections of formal and informal science environments has not been systematically reviewed to offer a comprehensive understanding of the existing knowledge base.

Selbstreguliertes Lernen (SRL) ist eine wichtige Grundvoraussetzung für lebenslanges Lernen.

Scholars across fields of education have longstanding histories of critically considering the many ways that inequities in schooling are engendered and maintained, and, just as significantly, how these forms of oppression might be resisted and refused.

Published in 1983, this book considers how films are used in secondary school as teaching aids in English and Film courses.

This book will help you learn practical ways to manage the stress of teaching and avoid burnout.

Since the middle of the last century tourism has demonstrated almost continual growth, with international tourist arrivals now recorded in excess of one billion per annum.

Here is a book to serve educators from all types of schools in either pre-service or professional development that is designed as a text for master's and licensure (post-master's) level.

This thought-provoking collection examines the challenge of teacher shortages that is of international concern.