Professional Development

How teachers may be better educated for a changing global world is a challenge that faces many systems of education worldwide. This book addresses key issues of quality and change in teacher education in the context of the new public management...

A unique collection of headteachers' voices discussing leading and managing mediocre teachers and their colleagues. It explores the dilemmas they face as they cope with teachers' personal and professional lives, aging colleagues, accountability and...

This book draws on case studies from India, Mexico, and Tanzania to examine the complex processes that lead to the educational marginalization of children through differential access to teacher quality. Growing evidence indicates that access to good...

This book examines how injustice based on social positioning is performed within the context of international schools. Drawing on the lived experiences of an international school teacher, it proposes and explores the notion that teachers, in being...

This book provides commentary on the influence of multi-layered political contexts that surround the work of teacher educators worldwide. It addresses the drawbacks of the massification, standards-based movements and marketisation of universal business...

This book describes, problematises and theorises professional practice research in a range of Australian settings to provide evidence of robust, wide-ranging and contemporary approaches to professional experience in initial teacher education. It presents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889597964Author Dr JagadeeshFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528713511Author Grenville KleiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint White PressPublisher White PressWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792409936Author Louis L. WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889591504Author Dr JagadeeshFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 104g

How important is it to be a reflective practitioner in education today? This book examines the reflective practitioner role and the scope of reflective activities in professional practice, revealing that critical thinking is rooted in a philosophical...

(Orginally published in 2005)This monograph represents the work of many mathematics teacher educators explored the content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge that make up the middle grades learning experience. The middle grades remains a unique period...

Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book Award This 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...

The ultimate collection for building a world-class professional learning program! This groundbreaking 7-book series, co-developed by Learning Forward and Corwin, closes the "knowing-doing" gap by guiding educational leaders through the process...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889591948Author Dr JagadeeshFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889590415Author Dr JagadeeshFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889595724Author Jagadeesh PillaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921547188Author Catherine MattiskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Tpc - The Performance Company Pty LimitedPublisher Tpc - The Performance Company...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889750482Author Dr JagadeeshFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 132g

For the education system to remain responsive to the needs and demands of its multiple stakeholders it must embrace the innovation and research produced by contemporary technology. This book traverses a wide range of conceptual, disciplinary,...

Literacy is arguably the most important goal of schooling as, to a large extent, it determines young children's educational and life chances and is fundamental in achieving social justice. New Zealand's literacy education programme has long been regarded...

This volume examines the multiple meanings of the term community in relation to teacher education research from an international perspective and present examples of exemplary work that represent different strands of community-focused and community-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989048427Author Dewane MutungaFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Teachers Ed PublishingPublisher Teachers Ed PublishingWeight(grams) 136g

Published with a new preface, this innovative case study from Nova Scotia analyzes the relationship between rural communities and contemporary education. Rather than supporting place-sensitive curricula and establishing networks within community...

In returning to the classroom, schools are at a crossroads and uniquely positioned to recreate and reinvent themselves. The current issues of equity, social-emotional sensitivity, curriculum reform, civic involvement, public health policy and...

This volume examines how several key components of the mathematics education system in the United States fail to provide teachers with adequate and effective tools to teach mathematics in K-12 classrooms. These components consist of teachers' own...

This book serves as a critical resource for educators across various roles and contexts who are interested in Holocaust education that is both historically sound and practically relevant. As a collection, it pulls together a diverse group of scholars to...

This book provides an autobiographical and research-based exploration of the perceptions of Black middle and upper class preservice teachers about teaching and learning in high poverty urban schools. While there is an extensive body of knowledge on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227065636Author Denise N FyffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Jamaica Pen PublishersPublisher Jamaica Pen PublishersWeight(grams) 86g

This book contributes to our understanding how teachers can improve classroom dialogue and thereby boost student learning.The book reports the results of intervention research based on professional development program for teacher. Participating teachers...

More Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys: Adventures with Mythical Creatures will put imaginations to work to foster creativity and build reading skills. Stimulate the literary and artistic imaginations of middle school students, especially boys, by...

This book discusses the use of futures methodologies to examine and critique teacher education and investigate drivers of change in teacher education contexts, providing readers with futures tools that they can use to explore curricula and pedagogies. It...

About the AuthorDr Meera Varadharajan is a Research Fellow in Education at the Centre for Social Impact, University of New South Wales. Her PhD thesis was on the lived experiences of career change teachers who were new to the teaching profession...

Multilingual learners (MLs) students spend most of their school time with their teachers, who often feel professionally unprepared to meet their linguistically diverse students' needs. As such, preparing teachers for increasing numbers of multilingual...

Powerful collaborative learning-anytime, anyplace! Online learning seems like a perfect solution for cost-conscious districts and busy teachers, but can these programs also deliver high-caliber professional learning? Using one district's success story...

This book investigates the professional learning needs of teachers beyond initial teacher education, focusing on teachers in complex teaching positions, such as out-of-field teaching practices. The information presented here will help to improve...

This book details the findings of a small-scale research study on the use of real-time coaching in pre-service teacher education, founded upon the nexus of teacher education, mentoring, immediate feedback, teacher effectiveness, technology-enhanced...

This book explores, through eight chapters, how design thinking vocabulary can be interpreted and employed in educational contexts. The theoretical foundations of design thinking and design in education are first examined by means of a literature review...

This book invites readers to explore how fourteen different experts in their respective fields create deeper meaning in their profession and work with students through thinking, in multiple ways, about the self who teaches, the self who learns, and the...

The classroom teacher in the 21st century is no longer a solo practitioner. What can school leaders use to facilitate on-going, job-embedded, intentionally focused professional development that is unique to the collective needs of teacher pairs and teams...