Teacher training

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.

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.

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

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.

Being able to read is one of the most important skills in life and something we all want our children to achieve - for learning and for pleasure.

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 collection of important and significant papers examines a wide range of issues.

David Reynolds is recognised internationally as one of the leaders of the school effectiveness and school improvement movement, and Failure Free Education?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pride & Progress began as a podcast created to amplify the voices of LGBT+ educators and allies.

"e;Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-making: Interpretive Acts of Teacher Educators"e; illustrates interim narrative field texts of identity as "e;teacher educator stories"e; and demonstrates how researchers utilize common places of temporality, sociality, and place in analyzing narratives.

Transform your school with inspirational leadership and a pupil-centered approach.

The Perfect (Ofsted) Further Education Lesson will help teachers, trainers, tutors and assessors provide consistently outstanding learning experiences that make a real difference to their learners.

All successful schools have one thing in common - they are full of brilliant teachers.

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