Teacher training

Under the Bleachers: Teachers' Reflections of What They Didn't Learn in College is a unique text because the chapters offer insight into the daily chaos of teaching.

Technology is becoming entrenched in schools' daily operations and classrooms.

Stories matter.

This book combines several perspectives on the steps the Finnish educational system has taken to provide students with the skills and competences needed for living in today's society and in the future.

This volume addresses the need for an international perspective on global education, and provides alternate voices to the theme of global education.

Thinking and learning are based on powerful concepts-ideas that identify, but also provoke and challenge.

This study surveyed principals and teachers in ten countries to compare principal and teacher attitudes toward the involvement of teachers in several change and development responsibilities.

In recent years many countries have built or renovated schools incorporating open plan design.

"e;Bringing a different world into existence-Action Research as a trigger for innovations"e; was the overarching theme and vision of the international CARN Conference 2011 in Vienna.

We are all familiar with the expression "e;teachers' bag of tricks.

Every storyteller soon discovers the difference between putting a story inside children and trying to extract it with comprehension questions and putting children inside a story and having them act it out.

The message of the book is straightforward and easy to apply: it derives from the interweaving of long years of field work with a solid theoretical background.

As a teacher educator you are (or were) identified as a credible practitioner in your given community of practice.

This volume presents distinctive, innovative models of teacher education from Australia, discusses their successful elements and considers possibilities for successful teacher education in the twenty-first century.

This book examines the shifting portrayal of the nation in school textbooks in 14 countries during periods of rapid political, social, and economic change.

The recognition and study of African American (AA) artists and public intellectuals often include Martin Luther King, Jr.

For What Child, a must read for parents, future educators, and those interested in the education of the child.

This book provides science teacher educators and science educational researchers with a current overview on the roles of beliefs in science education settings.

Harnessing conceptual inspiration through the work of Harriet Tubman and Queen Nanny the Maroon of Jamaica, this book explores the historical and contemporary role that education has-and can continually play as an instrument of personal and group liberation.

"e;Pedagogies for the Future illustrates a unique and exciting endeavor whereby a group of academics across one university developed a professional learning community for the purposes of investigating, articulating and developing their scholarship of practice.

This book provides a unique insight into the learning experiences of career change professionals in teacher education.

Teachers empower both the next generation of learners and educators.

Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World brings together the perspectives of 26 literacy/English teacher educators from four countries: Canada, U.

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This book is intended to illuminate the experiences of teachers working in higher education, the tensions they face in working in an increasingly complex professional landscape.

As standardization and "e;accountability"e; have continued to increase in the 21st century, educators and scholars of education have become increasingly frustrated.

The student teaching experience is often considered by teachers as one of the most influential aspects of teacher preparation.

This scholarly work appears at a crucial moment in South Africa.

Assessment for learning (AfL) is bound up with students becoming autonomous lifelong learners who are active participants in the classroom and beyond.

The journey of becoming a teacher is a complicated, emotional, and often intricate endeavor.

This book foregrounds the ideas of an important European pedagogue whose writings provide insights for a critical social justice oriented approach to education.

In this volume, we take a holistic approach to education, viewing human beings as lifelong learners who need interaction in all educational domains-cognitive, affective, psychomotor-to actualize their full potential.

Students deserve great teachers and learning to become a great teacher is a lifelong journey.

Working with parents is a significant aspect of educators' roles, yet it is rare to find curriculum in teacher education programs designed to prepare individuals to consider, in philosophical, theoretical, and pedagogical ways, who they will be in relationship with parents and why.

Why did Kurt Vonnegut shun being labeled a writer of science fiction (SF)?

How to achieve school reform and organisational change has been a subject of much inquiry and interest by educators, education systems and academics.

This book provides practitioners, researchers, and those involved in mentoring activities insight into varying types of mentoring.

* How do children, individually and collectively, make meanings of their learning experiences?

If the status and quality of science education in schools is to improve, efforts need to be made to better understand the classroom practices of effective science teachers.

This book deals with commonly reported accusations about the nature of teacher education based on arguments and disagreements about what teacher education should do, how it should do it and what it should produce in its graduates.

This book provides no answer key.

The main idea of the book is to contribute to a broader understanding of learning, identity and diversity by presenting actual research findings that were retrieved from classroom settings and related social practices.

"e;Teaching is a richly multifaceted endeavor.

It Takes a Village: A Collaborative Assault on the Struggling Reader Dilemma has a wellspring of incredibly useful information for teacher educators, pre-service and in-service teachers alike.

This groundbreaking book examines why the majority of Australian school leavers want to go to university and have resisted government attempts to promote alternative forms of tertiary education.

During the last several decades, self-regulation of learning has permeated all areas of learning and development, including teaching preparation programs.

This book emphasizes the significance of teaching science in early childhood classrooms, reviews the research on what young children are likely to know about science and provides key points on effectively teaching science to young children.

Read this book if you care about students really understanding physics and getting genuine intellectual satisfaction from doing so.

This volume examines the interface between the teachings of art and the art of teaching, and asserts the centrality of aesthetics for rethinking education.