Teacher training

How can you make gymnastics activity fun, lively and inclusive?

A Guide to Teaching Practice is the major standard text for all students on initial teacher training courses in the UK.

How can Academic Developers provide evidence of the effectiveness and 'added value' of their work to the key stakeholders within their institutions?

This book explores a range of challenges teachers face in dealing with situations of disadvantage, and explores different ways of thinking about these situations.

At a time when social, cultural and linguistic diversity has become a characteristic of education systems around the world, this timely text considers how teacher education is responding to these developments in the context of increased mobilities within and across national boundaries.

This volume examines the present status and future trends of textbook studies.

The New Lives of Teachers examines the varied, often demanding commitments on teachers' lives today as they attempt to pursue careers in primary and secondary education.

Can religion and science co-exist successfully in the classroom?

This book explores the universal and highly topical issues of ageing and retirement.

Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book AwardThis book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam.

How Science Works provides student and practising teachers with a comprehensive introduction to one of the most dramatic changes to the secondary science curriculum.

Debating Special Education is a provocative yet timely book examining a range of criticisms made of special education in recent years.

This book examines the significance of teacher expertise in the drive to improve quality and effectiveness.

Amongst the challenges that elementary teachers may often face as they introduce their students to science is the need to maintain a solid understanding of the many scientific concepts and details themselves.

This concise text will help your students get to grips with the core academic skills they need to succeed at written assignments, including critical thinking, reading, note-making and assignment planning.

Accessibly written with the needs of trainee teachers and Higher Level Teaching Assistants in mind, this new edition of Wendy Spooner's popular SEN Handbook provides an up-to-the-minute introduction to key issues.

This book comprises reflections by experienced scholar teachers on the principles and practice of higher education English teaching.

This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "e;new times"e; - prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to understand different perspectives to participate in an increasingly diverse, multicultural global society.

This book focuses on how to improve the teaching and learning of primary level mathematics education within resource-constrained contexts.

This book explores the value of duoethnography to the study of interdisciplinary practice.

Psychology for the Classroom: Behaviourism describes and reflects upon the foundations of behaviourism and the proliferation of behaviourist techniques in common practice today.

Tools for Dossier Success demystifies the dossier process from start to finish.

There are many more children with learning differences and difficulties in our schools today.

This book suggests how the internationalisation of teaching and learning for sustainability can be a vehicle for a two-way flow of knowledge across national, cultural and theoretical boundaries.

This book offers a holistic practitioner and research-based perspective on English Language Teaching and teacher education in difficult circumstances.

The Courage to Grow: Leading with Intentionality shows educational leaders how to design and carry out a leadership professional development plan.

With the current emphasis on standards in the schools, one may think that this is a new phenomenon.

Gender bias is well established in children by age 6, so creating environments where all children can learn without bias requires an understanding of the components of gender bias and the related challenges.

Research-based theories provide the basis for good decision-making in education.

An erosion of confidence in higher education institutions, particularly community colleges, is coming at a time when it can be ill-afforded as education costs increase and federal and public funding decrease.

WHAT WORKS!

How can a teacher remain whole and happy, able to teach well for an entire semester, an entire year, and an entire career?

This book is a compilation of teaching theories and strategies for eliciting and interpreting student thinking to adapt to educational settings.

This book outlines cooperative small-group discovery (CSGD) theory and practical learning strategies for implementing it in secondary and collegiate classrooms.

This book outlines cooperative small-group discovery (CSGD) theory and practical learning strategies for implementing it in secondary and collegiate classrooms.

This book explores the process of educators' technology adoption, which is crucial for digital transformation in today's educational landscape.

Often new leaders commit a series of missteps that create dissention and dissatisfaction, ultimately alienating staff.

If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you.

Teachers face enormous challenges with standardized testing, the customization of education for each student to reach his or her potential, behavioral challenges, changes in demographics of students, micromanagement from school administrators, and difficulties in working with parents and the community at large, to name a few.

Difficult and demanding times force educators to reevaluate their lives and current lifestyles.

The teacher work sample (TWS) has become increasingly widely adopted as an end-of-program, performance-based assessment for student teachers.

Experts Academy Press is proud to present the first and only leadership book on the market that is (1) intended for students, (2) written from both theoretical and popular viewpoints, and (3) structured with a real-world, service-oriented framework that students can instantly use to make a difference in their classrooms, communities, and early careers.

The Extreme Principle is to do what matters most and to do what works best.

Democracies Always in the Making develops Barbara Thayer-Bacon's relational and pluralistic democratic theory, as well as translates that socio-political philosophical theory into educational theory and recommendations for school reform in American public schools.

This book provides a valuable balance between what one must know and what one must do to turn around low-performing schools.

Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve compares the academic achievements of students in the United States to those of students in other countries.

Mentoring is a hot buzzword these days.

This is a book is of educational ideas, commentaries, and observations from the past.

With the current emphasis on assessment and data-driven instruction, pre-service teachers rarely get a chance to consider how they will deal with the dilemmas that may surface in their future classrooms.

This book advocates for teacher professional development done differently.