Teacher training

The knowledge and decisions of professionals influence all facets of modern life, a fact reflected by the increasing and distinct emphasis on public accountability for what professionals know and do.

The Resilient Practitioner, 4th edition, gives students and practitioners valuable tools for creating their own boundaried generosity, a vibrant method for balancing caring for others and caring for oneself.

Responding to Diversity in Schools provides guidance for education practitioners on how to use an inquiry-based approach in responding to learner diversity.

On George Vlachonikolis' 25th birthday, he was holding an SA80 assault rifle.

Science is rightly a fundamental part of primary school education, but that doesn't make it easy to teach - especially for teachers without a science background.

First published in 1997.

Professional ethics require continuous self-improvement of professors, through writing, reading, and learning: no less than for students.

Despite variations of educational systems, when transitions in education occur, the pedagogical challenges that teachers and pupils undergo are quite similar across the globe.

The main theme of the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Teacher Education and Professional Development (InCoTEPD 2019) is 'Teacher Education and Professional Development in Industry 4.

First published in 1985.

How can schools shoulder some responsibility for depolarizing our fractured American society?

Offering secondary math educators an innovative holistic and process-orientated approach for implementing nonroutine problems into their curriculum, this book defines and establishes practical strategies to develop students' problem-solving skills.

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

In this galvanizing book for all educators, Kristin Souers and Pete Hall explore an urgent and growing issue--childhood trauma--and its profound effect on learning and teaching.

Shaping Work-Life Culture in Higher Education provides strategies to implement beneficial work-life policies in colleges and universities.

Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs is a complete, structured, multisensory programme for teaching reading and spelling, making it fun and accessible for all.

The Relevance of the Humanities to the 21st Century Workplace provides a blueprint for higher education faculty, boards, presidents, senior leaders, parents, students, recent graduates, and other stakeholders.

Casual reference to moral education or the manner in which young people should be brought up to behave may provoke a range of responses depending on the context and the personalities and ideological perspectives of those present.

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors.

We are surrounded by thousands of animals, alive and dead.

This book focuses on the complex relationship between education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights how important context is for both critiquing and achieving the Goals though education, given the critical role teachers, schools and curriculum play in young people's lives.

The contribution of this volume to the literature on peer learning is its focus on approaches that reflect a common concern with cognitive processes based in developmental, information processing, or more generally, constructivist perspectives on peer learning.

A key skill to be mastered by graduates today is the ability to assess the quality of their own work, and the work of others.

Challenges current adult-led approaches to working with vulnerable young people, and introduces practitioners and students to creative methods that will enhance the self-worth of children and teenagers.

This fully revised and updated eighth edition of Peter Westwood's book offers practical advice and strategies for meeting the challenge of inclusive teaching.

Focusing on the partnerships and collaborations between teacher educators and students with regards to faculty members' professional development, contributors from around the world provide insight into professional development opportunities in the context of teaching and collaborating with students.

Will Ryan's Dare to be Different: A leadership fable about transformational change in schools tells the fictional tale of Brian Smith a primary school head teacher who listens to what his political masters have to say, but then sets out to inspire real transformational change by doing the exact opposite and leading through his own values and beliefs.

Storytelling helps pupils develop a wide range of skills.

This book provides a practical illustration of the skills, knowledge and understanding required to teach in the secondary classroom.

First published in 1997.

Technology-enabled simulations are increasingly used for students in K-12 education and have the potential to improve teaching and learning across domains.

Teaching is a wonderful profession, but it is one that requires huge amounts of physical, mental and psychological reserves.

This comprehensive handbook is the ultimate reference work, providing authoritative and international overviews of all aspects of schools and schooling in Asia.

Making School Count reports on four years of classroom research in which alternative teaching strategies, designed to motivate under-achieving inner-city, African-American middle school students were used and evaluated.

Co-written by a professor and 10 students, this book explores their attempts to come to grips with fundamental issues related to writing narrative accounts purporting to represent aspects of people's lives.

Teachers' Perceptions, Experience and Learning offers insightful views on the understanding of the role of teachers and the impact of their thinking and practice.

This practical guide prepares graduate students of color for their first job in academia and offers strategies for succeeding in the early years of a tenure-track position.

People undertake action learning work in small groups to tackle organisational and social problems and to learn from their experience of working together to bring about change.

This textbook serves as a current and comprehensive resource on effective Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for TESOL practitioners in various contexts around the world at various stages in their careers.

How can you unlock your own creativity to help children learn science creatively?

This book explores the philosophies, barriers and opportunities shaping education environments for children, teachers and student teachers in diverse countries around the world through a series of pertinent articles.

Knowledge is the basic output of the defense technology establishment in the United States; it is what enables the development of weapon systems.

Teacher Education Policy and Practice in Europe provides a critical overview of the current challenges facing teacher education policy and practice in Europe.

Specially selected by Diane Reay, this is a collection of innovative and thought-provoking recently published papers that 'use' Bourdieu to put theory into practice in order to understand and analyse educational problems.

Descriptosaurus Story Writing provides a resource for younger pupils that will not only expand their descriptive vocabulary but also provide them with models that demonstrate 'language in action,' in a genre that is popular and familiar to children aged 5-9.

Challenges arise when teachers seek to enact socially just instruction while navigating social, classroom, and school dynamics.

Offering a nuanced examination of the complex landscape that international scholars who publish their research in English must navigate, this edited volume details 17 perspectives on scholarly writing for publication across seven geolinguistic regions.