Teacher training

This practical and accessible guide tackles the challenges that busy childcare educators face with their mental health in what is a wonderful, rewarding, but often exhausting role.

Science, Medicine, and Animals explains the role that animals play in biomedical research and the ways in which scientists, governments, and citizens have tried to balance the experimental use of animals with a concern for all living creatures.

By foregrounding a first-person perspective, this text enacts and explores self-reflection as a mode of inquiry in educational research and highlights the centrality of the individual researcher in the construction of knowledge.

Place-based Curriculum Design provides pre-service and practicing teachers both the rationale and tools to create and integrate meaningful, place-based learning experiences for students.

This book advocates the use of case methods to promote democratic teaching and learning.

Are we missing the opportunity to reach struggling learners from the very beginning?

Transformative Teaching Around the World compiles inspiring stories from Fulbright-awarded teachers whose instructional practices have impacted schools and communities globally.

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Multicultural Education of Children and Adolescents explores the foundations of diversity through cultural portraits of young people from a variety of backgrounds, and provides practical strategies for shaping and implementing a multicultural curriculum.

Originally published in 1986.

This multidisciplinary volume is a systematic, well-researched resource to help understand the methods and techniques of teaching English as a second language.

Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom shows how everyday literacy sessions can be made more exciting, dynamic and effective by using a wide range of media and visual texts in the primary classroom.

The responsibility for facilitating effective continuing professional development (CPD) is based firmly in schools.

An Introduction to Career Learning and Development 11-19 is an indispensible source of support and guidance for all those who need to know why and how career learning and development should be planned, developed and delivered effectively to meet the needs of young people.

Aspects of Teaching Secondary Music provides a practical illustration of the skills, knowledge and understanding required to teach music in the secondary classroom.

Now in its third edition, History 5-11 aims to make teaching about the past exciting and stimulating for both teachers and children.

Research in mathematics teacher education as a distinctive field of inquiry has grown substantially over the past 10-15 years.

Teacher identity is shaped by recognition or its absence, often by misrecognition of others.

Early Childhood Education and Care in a Global Pandemic is a book that highlights how the international early childhood education and care sector responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

An innovative exploration into the immediate and profound effects of sensory engagement, this book delves specifically into the incorporation of smell within the context of contemporary childhood experiences.

Facing the Consequences presents a perspective on US mathematics and science education that is developed from data gathered as part of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

More than ever, we need our universities to be engines of change and social justice.

This encyclopedia serves as a tool to support universities across the world to implement sustainable development in higher education in a number of key areas, spread over 5 Sections:1.

How many educators have read a book, attended a conference, or pursued college or graduate work in how the brain learns?

Being an Effective Programme Leaderin Higher Education is a practical guide designed to help navigate the complex academic, pastoral, and administrative challenges that come with working in this position.

First published in 1995.

Museums and Digital Confidence explores the evolving nature of digital practices in museums.

This book examines this contested relationship between assessment and autonomy from a number of perspectives in a variety of Higher Education language-learning contexts in Europe and the Far East.

First published in 1967, Reading and Remedial Reading describes the normal reading programme in the school where the author taught and the diagnosis and treatment of acute difficulties in learning to read.

It is a fact that the world's languages are dying at an alarming rate.

Transforming Teaching shares the successes and the problems that were solved by a diverse group of educators during the global pandemic.

This book focuses on the challenges of teaching in diversely multilingual classrooms, discussing how these challenges and complexities interact in the preparation of teachers (language & content areas) in and for multilingual settings, and how they impact on educational processes, developments, and outcomes.

What are the concepts and theories behind current debates about education?

A new concept on human diversity has emerged over the past 10 years that promises to revolutionize the way educators provide services to students with special needs: neurodiversity.

Mapping Motivation for Top Performing Teams is the final volume in a series of books that are all linked to the author's Motivational Map toolkit.

The Primary National Curriculum sets challenging expectations for the teaching of writing.

Placing Students at the Heart of Creative Learning shows teachers of key stages 2 and 3 how to introduce creativity into what is often seen as a prescriptive and stifling curriculum, and addresses the tensions that can exist between the requirement to follow the curriculum and the desire to employ innovative pedagogies.

The ICT Teacher's Handbook is an indispensable guide for all teachers responsible for the teaching and management of ICT in the secondary school, both as a comprehensive introduction for students learning to teach ICT and as a source of ongoing support for busy practising teachers.

Drawing on three decades of practical investigations, this book establishes new understandings about the importance of learning through work, outlining its purposes, contributions, conceptions and the curriculum, pedagogical and personal practices that shape its effectiveness.

Originally published in 1990.

While student voice has been well-defined in research, how to sustain youth-adult leadership work is less understood.

This essential guide to building and using an inclusive classroom library combines theory and lesson plans for educators of students in grades 4-5.

This book explores how, why, and with what consequences one no-excuses charter network marketizes teaching and learning, through the author's 1000 hours of covert participant observation at a network charter school.

This book explores strategies for building up a repertoire of ideas, approaches and techniques that allow teachers to develop effective explanatory skills.

Sticky Assessment is a straightforward guide to assessment, designed to demystify assessment and to give teachers the tools they need become better assessors.

In this practical guide to designing and delivering interesting and effective presentations for adult audiences, Garmston and Wellman cover the five stages of a presentation and offer tips for executing each one.

This book compiles and synthesizes existing research on teachers' use of mathematics curriculum materials and the impact of curriculum materials on teaching and teachers, with a particular emphasis on - but not restricted to - those materials developed in the 1990s in response to the NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.

This book provides a guide for a long-overdue public dialogue about why and how we need to reinvent our nation's schools.