Teacher training

This book draws critical connections between teacher education or preparation and the field of comparative and international education (CIE) showing ways in which the two fields can inform and advance one another.

Research on teacher education and classroom teaching has evolved significantly in recent decades, with more scholarship taking an international and/or other intersectional lenses.

This book explores Guided Inquiry Design(R), a simple, practical model that addresses all areas of inquiry-based learning and sets the foundation for elementary-age students to learn more deeply.

This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfill their missions and visions.

For too long graduate school was viewed solely as a pipeline to teaching positions at colleges and universities.

Primary maths is stereotypically loved by a few hairy oddballs, tolerated by most sane primary practitioners; loathed by many.

The chapters in this book will focus on pre-service and in-service science teacher education, because both are equally important.

Always on Lockdown looks at the negative impact police in schools has had on students.

An accessible guide for schools explaining how to implement effective techniques to improve staff mental health.

Barak Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction are widely recognised for their clarity and simplicity and their potential to support teachers seeking to engage with cognitive science and the wider world of education research.

This co-edited book provides doctoral candidates with a practical, cross-discipline handbook for successfully navigating the doctoral process - from initial program selection to the final dissertation defense and preparing for the faculty interview.

Saying it Right deals with the techniques and processes necessary to transmit and understand messages from people inside and outside of organizations.

The Perfect (Ofsted) Maths Lesson recognises that teaching is hard and that, although no teacher is perfect, their lessons can be.

Teachers fully in charge of what matters for student and school success is now a movement, growing steadily in nearly half the states of the U.

This book aims to challenge established teaching cultures to promote teacher autonomy and autonomy-oriented pedagogies in language teacher education.

Winner of the 2018 Outstanding Book by the Michigan Council Teachers of EnglishChoice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018Winner of the 2017 AERA Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) Exemplary Research AwardThis book draws upon a queer literacy framework to map out examples for teaching literacy across pre-K-12 schooling.

All meaningful and enduring educational reform occurs locally.

This book provides a rationale and conceptual framework for teaching and learning about community.

The book takes a closer look at the theoretical and empirical basis for a competence-based view of models and modeling in science learning and science education research.

This book highlights the difficulties that women working as managers and leaders in initial teacher education face.

This book presents voices of educators describing their pedagogical practices inspired by the ethical ontological dialogism of Mikhail M.

This book focuses on the impact of sustained and evolving collaborations, showcasing research and scholarship in a faculty group-consisting of 28 professors from five regional universities-meeting and supporting each other since 2002.

This volume asks how we, as International Relations scholars, support our students, and indeed each other, to create classroom spaces that foster the critical curiosity and engagement required to understand and live in a world that feels dangerously disrupted?

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.

The editors and authors of Professional Teacher Dispositions: Additions to the Mainstreamcontribute to the long tradition in education of the discussions of teacher dispositions.

The purpose of this book is to clearly define an approach to school improvement that uses professional learning community (PLC) practices to achieve school improvement and success for every student.

Collaborative Action for Change presents new directions in the preparation and lifelong professional development of music educators.

During and after his term as interim Central Falls superintendent in 2006-2007, Bill Holland sought answers to why some Central Falls High School students had school success while over half of their classmates failed to graduate.

In a no-holds-barred, candid delivery, Straight Talk to Teachers: Twenty Insane Ideas for a Better Classroom drives directly to the core of what makes an extraordinary teacher, and presents an honest appraisal of why some teachers fail.

Change the World with Service Learning is clear, direct and easy to use, and was designed for busy teachers integrating Service Learning into their existing curriculum.

This is a consumable workbook for new teachers, or veteran teachers who may need instructional coaching.

Here is a comprehensive, step-by-step approach for teaching school leader candidates and school leaders alike to develop a standards-based digital portfolio.

This book details characteristics and behaviors manifested by effective leaders and discussion of how their behavior was informed by leadership theory.

This book illuminates what must always be at the heart of powerful schooling and authentic learning.

This is an essential guide for all health and social work practitioners supporting an increasing number of learners, trainees, apprentices and pre-registration students engaging in practice-based and work-based learning.

This book examines the complex relationship between working-class masculinities and educational success.

Teachers are vital for the integration of immigrant, refugee and asylum-seeking students; however, they are not often prepared or supported to meet the needs of these students.

Much of the current discourse on improving school leadership, and particularly the performance of principals, is misguided.

Our image-rich, media-dominated culture prompts critical thinking about how we educate young children.

This book investigates the relationship between context and leadership in post-conflict Cambodia.

This book builds on the Teachers Empowered to Advance Change in Mathematics (TEACH Math) project, which was an initiative that sought to develop a new generation of preK-8 mathematics teachers to connect mathematics, children's mathematical thinking, and community and family knowledge in mathematics instruction - or what we have come to call children's multiple mathematical knowledge bases in mathematics instruction, with an explicit focus on equity.

The book presents a selection of the most relevant talks given at the 21st MAVI conference, held at the Politecnico di Milano.

This edited volume explores diverse translanguaging practices in multilingual science classrooms in Hong Kong, Lebanon, Luxembourg, South Africa, Sweden and the United States.

This book approaches the prevention of fatal incidents in outdoor education and related fields through detailed study of past tragedies.

This book draws on case studies from India, Mexico, and Tanzania to examine the complex processes that lead to the educational marginalization of children through differential access to teacher quality.

This book examines African philosophy of education and the enactment of ubuntu justice through a massive open online course on Teaching for Change.

This book presents research on the effects and effectiveness of ICT applications in lifelong learning in relation to digital competences of educators.

This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as "e;relationship-centred education"e;.

This book critically explores the use of nine recognized methodologies  for the mediation of professional learning in the context of teacher education: The story, the visual text, the case, the video, the simulation, the portfolio, lesson study, action research, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).