Professional Development

This book challenges dominant thinking about early career teachers and their work. It offers an in-depth and critical analysis of policies concerning the work of early career teachers and how they are supported during this critical period, when they are...

This book provides authentic practice-based inquiries by pre-service teachers. Their reflective narratives showcase their individual inquiries as they navigated their self-chosen professional learning journeys through the teaching as inquiry framework...

This book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of problem-based learning (PBL) in teacher education. Featuring the perspectives of experienced teacher educators, it details the strengths of problem-based learning pedagogy as well as identifies...

This book brings together researchers from Israel and Canada to discuss the challenges today's teachers and teacher-educators face in their practice.There is a growing expectation that the 21st century STEM teachers re-examine their teaching philosophies...

This anthology is a new reading of the contemporary poetries. The collection gathers together the work of a number of scholars, poets, and teachers on the challenges and productive possibilities that arise when teaching contemporary writing today.About...

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. Originally an...

Activating Diverse Musical Creativities analyses the ways in which music programmes in higher education can activate and foster diverse musical creativities. It also demonstrates the relationship between musical creativities and entrepreneurship in...

This book explores how well teachers are prepared for professional practice. It is an outcome of a large-scale research and development program that has collected extensive data on the impact of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment on Initial...

This book addresses student passivity in teacher education. Using a developed metaphor, the author critically examines the use of authentic learning to design and implement learning experiences for preservice teachers, and reveals the opportunities and...

Changes in the nature of knowledge production, plus rapid social and cultural change, have meant that the 'curriculum question' - what is to be taught, and by extension, 'whose knowledge' - has been hotly contested. The question of what to teach...

This edited book explores different international practices in reforming science teacher education programs for STEM education. Incorporating case studies in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America and South America, the contributors...

This book addresses student passivity in teacher education. Using a developed metaphor, the author critically examines the use of authentic learning to design and implement learning experiences for preservice teachers, and reveals the opportunities and...

Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It is a way of thinking and behaving that will need to be embedded in all aspects of all of our lives. The...

This book brings together researchers from Israel and Canada to discuss the challenges today's teachers and teacher-educators face in their practice.There is a growing expectation that the 21st century STEM teachers re-examine their teaching philosophies...

Start your teaching journey with your best foot forward Within your classroom walls, seeds of curiosity, creativity, and resilience are sown, and your impact will ripple far beyond and into the future with each lesson you teach and every heart you touch...

Be the best mentor for early career teachers Mentors are critical to the success of new and aspiring teachers. In a time when so many teachers are leaving the profession within the first few years of their career, empowering mentorship can make a world...

A teacher's well-being has a powerful impact on their work with children, families, and colleagues, and can influence the overall quality of the program in which they are employed. With a specific focus on the unique factors related to the field of early...

Te Huarahi Maori Initial Teacher Education programme began in 1997, and since then it has proved to be radical and innovative. The programme enables its graduates to teach in Maori-medium and te reo Maori programmes at primary and intermediate level. It...

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Supercharge learners and learning Today's students need more than great teaching of the curricula; they must also be taught the love and strategies of learning. It's time for a balanced approach that teaches students how to access and process...

With its focus on the work and identity of teacher educators, this book addresses an essential but under-researched area in teacher education. It makes a major contribution to analysing the field and develops existing research on the working lives and...

Are you taking your first steps as a teacher? Then let this colourful and inspiring book help guide you along the way.Written by lecturers with vast experience of delivering the course to real students, this book is designed to engage and inspire anyone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036005078Author Michelle NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915261878Author David PreeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hachette Learning

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036004965Author Marc RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder Education

This book explores major factors impacting on teacher education in recent times. It uses examples from a broad range of international contributors who compare larger countries such as the USA, England and Australia with their smaller partners: Canada,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036010478Author Leora CruddasFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder Education

This comprehensive exploration of theoretical and practical aspects of out-of-class teaching and learning from a variety of perspectives and in various settings around the world includes a theoretical overview of the field, 11 data-based case studies and...

A call for the extension of hybrid learning urges that it become not just a quick fix or a boon for the bottom line, but an educational mode that reenvisions quality teaching and learning for the 21st century.Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of...

This book brings together the voices of teacher educators working in different national and educational settings. It Covers themes such as change in teacher education practices, the influences of context on practice, and of interculturality, to provide...

Supervision: New Perspectives for Theory and Practice co-edited by two prominent scholars in the field (Jeffrey Glanz and Sally Zepeda), draws attention to supervision as a function that is often misunderstood, under-appreciated, and frequently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416633303Author Jim KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Association for Supervision & Curriculum DevelopmentPublisher Association for Supervision...

This book examines internationalization practices, policies and experiences within TESOL teacher education. The chapters offer empirical, conceptual and theoretical engagements with the internationalization of TESOL teacher program curricula from both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416633426Author Charlotte DanielsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Association for Supervision & Curriculum DevelopmentPublisher Association for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036004620Author Andrew MorrishFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder Education

This book examines internationalization practices, policies and experiences within TESOL teacher education. The chapters offer empirical, conceptual and theoretical engagements with the internationalization of TESOL teacher program curricula from both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036003173Author Bruce RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder Education

This book brings together the deep subject knowledge, resources and classroom strategies needed to teach J. B. Priestley's famous play for GCSE, as well as the pedagogical theory behind why these ideas work, helping teachers to deliver a knowledge-rich...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036009014Author Samuel StricklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder Education

This Open Access volume aims to inspire innovative and culturally-responsive transformations in teacher education practices and policies within Europe and beyond in the context of teacher shortage. It amalgamates the collaborative efforts during several...