Teacher training

Efforts to improve mathematics teaching and learning globally have led to the ever-increasing interest in searching for alternative and effective instructional approaches from others.

"e;Finnish pupils' success in international student assessment tests and the characteristics of the Finnish educational system are the focus of interest all around in the world.

"e;This volume, the result of four years of work performed by the combined research groups of Utrecht University (Faculty of Humanities) and the HU Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (Faculty of Education), focuses on the central theme of 'Normative Professionalization'.

In this 21st century, technological and social changes have never been as rapid as before, and educative practices must evolve and innovate to keep up.

"e;This ground-breaking book on pedagogy, research, and philosophy in teacher education expands the imagination of justice-oriented education and arts-based scholarship.

This graphic novel is about pedagogy.

Since teaching is a practical activity, efficient problem-solving skill is one of the fundamental competencies teachers need to possess.

As social media use explodes in popularity, teachers can now share resources and interact with a broad international audience of colleagues, scholars, students, and the general public.

Teacher Education in Diverse Settings presents a study of initial educator preparation in three social contexts: a training program for immigrant child care educators in Canada, a pre- and lower primary specialization in a teacher education program in Namibia, and a partnership between the Misak indigenous communities in Colombia and the University of Cauca to deliver courses for educators within their communities.

The Charter School Experience: Voices from the Field is a unique book that presents readers with balanced perspectives from teachers, students, parents, and school leaders at charter schools across the United States.

Many countries now employ national evaluation systems to demonstrate publicly that universities provide a quality education.

"e;Diversifying the teaching force has become a priority in many migrant-receiving jurisdictions worldwide with the growing mismatch between the ethnic backgrounds, cultures, languages, and religions of teachers and those of students and families.

Teaching and learning in higher education can evoke strong feelings, including confusion, anxiety, boredom, curiosity, surprise and exhilaration.

This book brings together interviews with twenty-one artist-teachers from different parts of the world, offering many insights into their identities, challenges and creative and pedagogic practices they have adopted.

Transaction, the interaction, the transfer, the transference (and most definitely what's left behind) in exchange during interpersonal communications, is the focus in this work.

The book contributes to improving teaching and learning in a few ways: first, it provides in-service teachers with step-by-step, ready-to-use strategies that facilitate their students' comprehension and use of content area reading material; second, it aims to help pre-service teachers learn to implement hands-on lessons for their content area; third, apart from strategies offered to the content area teachers in the mainstream, the book also provides teachers of English language learners with strategies that address the literacy needs of their diverse students.

This collection of essays by Foxfire practitioners represents the wide range of adaptations by educators of the pedagogical orientation of the Foxfire Magazine and Foxfire Programs for Teachers.

This book is designed as a text for teacher education graduate programs, as well as a resource for school administrators and researchers and provides a global perspective to the current issues related to teacher dispositions, their place in teacher education programs, and impact on education reform around the world.

Unfolding Afterglow examines professional learning in the contemporary milieu of public education, considering the impact of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top on such encounters for art educators.

In this book the editors have been able to provide a snapshot of current research being undertaken in the Asia-Pacific region in regards to teacher self-efficacy beliefs.

Literacy learning continues to be central to schooling, and is currently of major concern to educators, policy developers, and members of the public alike.

Book is a practical resource for teacher trainers who are about to deal with the challenging and exciting task of preparing language teachers to integrate technology into their everyday professional practice.

ACE (Active Collaborative Education) set out on its educational journey in October 2001.

The position of teacherdemonstrates a broader role within schools, the education system and thecommunity.

Activity Theory in Education: Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge scholars from a number of continents.

Science education has to be improved in order to become more responsive to the needs of society confronted with a rapidly changing world.

What makes a person pack up and move to another country?

Saudi Arabia is witnessing unprecedented progress in the field of higher education.

"e;How can widely acknowledged challenges facing regional secondary schools with high concentrations of low SES students, ineffectual curricula, and poor levels of student engagement, attendance, and wellbeing, be addressed?

From Small Places: Toward the Realization of Literacy as a Human Right brings together history, theory, research, and practices that can lead to the realization of this right, both in itself, and as a means of achieving other rights.

Somebody Knows, Somebody Cares: Reengaging Students through Relationship explores approaches to engaging young people in schooling through advocacy models of student support.

A Critically Compassionate Approachto Financial Literacy offers a unique approach to conceptualizing financial literacy.

Written in a tradition that encourages teachers to see classrooms as laboratories and themselves as artists, intellectuals and researchers, Teaching Writing While Standing on One Foot is a compelling work that will enthrall readers as well as give them knowledge, hope, and inspiration.

"e;O'Hara explores not only the methodologies involved, but also the resultant life-changing moments in the lives of learners and teachers.

Transitioning from place to place has been identified as a key marker of many teachers' lives.

This book presents a new and important scholarship on teaching, at the time when studies on teaching in teacher education are long overdue.

In this collection of narratives, beginning teachers describe and reflect on critical incidents - classes that didn't quite go to plan.

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.

"e;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.