Teacher training

This book, originally published in 1995, is about ability, not disability.

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process.

This book is designed to help all educators get back to the CORE (Calling or Reason in Education) of what they love most about their chosen profession.

Drawing on ten years of research into whole-of-school teaching improvement, this engaging text explains what teaching improvement requires, how it is achieved, and how to maintain it in your classroom and school.

This edited volume presents interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to drama and science in education.

In their book, Othman and Senom provide a unique insight into the challenges faced by novice English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and establish how mentoring can provide effective support for new teachers' professional development.

Global learning and sustainable development encompass some of the key ideas and challenges facing the world today: challenges such as climate change, globalization and interdependence.

Originally published in 1993.

It is not the role of schools to solve the climate crisis or any of the other multiple crises now facing humankind.

After training, it is common for teachers to feel adrift in the first few years - a fact reflected in the numbers who leave within the first few years.

Thriving as a Professional Teacher explores the tensions and balance between developing the classroom you know will be best for the children you teach, and facing external pressures such as Ofsted, performance management, Teacher Standards and the need to prepare children for SATs and other tests.

Get the confidence you need to ace the Praxis Core Prepping for the Praxis Core can feel like a pain but it doesn't have to!

This book explores what constitutes valid or powerful educational knowledge and the role of educational theorising in questions of educational practice.

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.

This book addresses a wide range of issues and obstacles that teachers in native and non-native English-speaking countries face in teaching English language learners of all ages, at all levels of proficiency, and in a variety of program settings.

The need to introduce pupils to learning languages at an early stage has been widely acknowledged, with MFL now a core part of the primary curriculum.

First published in 1988.

Making a difference in Teacher Education through Self-Study: Studies of Personal, Professional, and Program Renewal describes the systematic efforts of committed and creative teacher educators to improve their teacher education programs.

Co-Published with the Association For Science Teacher Education.

Meaningful Online Learning explores the design and facilitation of high-quality online learning experiences and outcomes through the integration of theory-based instructional strategies, learning activities, and proven educational technologies.

Learn how to assign homework that truly enhances learning and isn't just busywork.

Challenging the current state of public education and teacher preparation, this book argues for a re-imagination of teacher education through a critical feminist and critical education perspective.

This is a book clearly written by an educator who knows mindfulness in schools from the inside.

Curriculum, or the substance of what is taught, is the core business of schools, and yet little exists in the way of a theory of curriculum for educators.

Originally published in 1998.

Studying PGCE Geography at M Level is for all students undertaking their PGCE, those working to gain Masters credits, and experienced teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of geography education.

This book questions the validity and reliability of conventional measures of quality education, such as enrolment ratio, retention rates, pupil-teacher ratio, drop-out rates, learning outcomes of children in foundational literacy and arithmetic and availability of infrastructural facilities, henceforth demanding its re-calibration.

Reimagining the Educated Mind presents Student Choice Curriculum, a descriptive argument for a major change in high school education.

What makes a good teacher?

This forward-thinking text challenges educators to think about and question the purpose of education and explores international understandings of the role played by early years professionals in promoting participatory, ethical and reflexive practice which benefits children as independent decision-makers.

This is a practical book for pupils, designed to teach the basic skills of scientific investigation and problem solving.

University Coeducation in the Victorian Era chronicles the inclusion of women in state-supported male universities during the nineteenth century.

In this second edition of Job One, editors Peter M.

The Dialogic Classroom in Higher Education is a step-by-step guide to leveraging Reflective Structured Dialogue as a pivotal pedagogical tool to boost student curiosity, engagement, and content acquisition.

As the globalisation of migration intensifies, many countries have joined the international competition for the most talented, skilful, and resourceful workers.

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success - and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand.

Assuming no prior knowledge of research methods and techniques, this book is the perfect companion for teachers at all levels undergoing professional development who need to enhance their formal reflection skills.

Purposeful Planning for Learning puts the passion and depth back into how teachers plan for learning in the primary classroom.

This edited collection will turn a critical spotlight on the set of texts that has constituted the high school canon of literature for decades.

Filmed School examines the place that teaching holds in the public imaginary through its portrayal in cinema.

Italian critical theorist Giorgio Agamben may be best known for his political writings concerning the curtailing of privacy rights in the wake of 9/11 and the status of prisoners of war and refugees.

While the genre of testimonio has deep roots in oral cultures and in Latin American human rights struggles, the publication and subsequent adoption of This Bridge Called My Back (Moraga & Anzaldua, 1983) and, more recently, Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Latina Feminist Group, 2001), have demonstrated the power of testimonio as a genre that exposes brutality, disrupts silencing, and builds solidarity among women of colour.

Assessment is one of the most powerful tools in teaching, yet it is rarely measured in effort, time and effectiveness and is often done alone, against the clock and with minimal training.

This book is an alternative account of special education from the cross-generational perspective of 15 mothers whose children labelled learning dis/abled (LD) attended public schools during the last four decades.

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.

Making outdoor teaching and learning work in practice is now a key priority for all early years practitioners.

Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching is a clear, comprehensive book on the integration of non-aversive behavior analysis principles into classrooms and other school settings.