Professional Development

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991144711Author J D DurdenFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Education Renovation PublishingPublisher Education Renovation PublishingWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733433426Author Kelly AlmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Meteor EducationPublisher Meteor EducationWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788057037040Author Owen Patrick Fernandes MbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 594Imprint Owen Patrick FernandesPublisher Owen Patrick FernandesWeight(grams) 1356g

This book examines agentic approaches by which teacher educators navigate a highly regulated environment. It investigates how teacher educators are responding to such regulation by employing approaches such as exploratory and case study research designs...

This book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921547133Author Catherine MattiskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Tpc - The Performance Company Pty LimitedPublisher Tpc - The Performance Company...

The Common Core State Standards require students to do more with knowledge and language than ever before. Rather than be mere consumers of knowledge, students must now become creators, critics, and communicators of ideas across disciplines. Yet in order...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889594796Author Dr JagadeeshFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

The purpose of this book is to highlight the work of teacher educators in the field of rural education. In this book, education faculty who work in teacher education study the ways in which one's identity impacts one's teaching and the partnerships with...

Most would agree that a learning community of practice cultivates social and intellectual development in educational settings but what are the other benefits and what does a learning community actually look like in practice? This book explores such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921547171Author Catherine MattiskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint 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 9798889519966Author Dr JagadeeshFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 100g

This program will emphasize how the neurodevelopmental demands of a math lesson interact with individual students' strengths and needs. The authors will provide step-by-step guidance for adapting materials, activities, and instructional strategies to...

This new work from Alan Block explores the contemporary discourses of education, scholarship and learning. The book offers a strong argument for the centrality of ethics in curriculum, scholarship and the classroom, and presents a powerful argument...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952854026Author Amber RoyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Golden Tip PressPublisher Golden Tip PressWeight(grams) 186g

This open access book seeks to create a forum for discussing key questions regarding theories on teaching: Which theories of teaching do we have? What are their attributes? What do they contain? How are they generated? How context-sensitive and...

This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers. It will assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, new course design and classroom presentation. The inclusive focus of...

This collection indicates how research on teaching and learning from multiple scientific disciplines such as educational science and psychology can be successfully pursued by a co-operation between researchers and school teachers. The contributors adopt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921547225Author Catherine MattiskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Tpc - The Performance Company Pty LimitedPublisher Tpc - The Performance Company...

This book provides an evidentiary basis for policy decisions regarding initial teacher education and beginning teaching and informs the design and delivery of teacher preparation programs. Based on a rigorous analysis of international literature and the...

Today, in many contexts the lack of attention to preparing the next generation of teacher educators as well as having a critical mass of faculty who understand the current teacher education research problem lingers. Although the NCATE Blue Ribbon Panel...

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...

Teacher education in the United States is changing to meet new policy demands for centering clinical practice and developing robust school-university partnerships to better prepare high-quality teachers for tomorrow's schools. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT...

This book presents a participatory action research study exploring the social identity and academic literacies of bilingual preservice teachers. It describes the transformative experiences of undergraduate students during their participation in a program...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889590378Author Dr JagadeeshFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 100g

As an environmental scientist, you are used to writing scientific articles, but how confident do you feel writing policy or regulatory documents? Do you feel you have the necessary writing skills to influence policy and inform the public? This...

Sharron L. McElmeel offers another winner-a new way to fire up interest in science, history, and other areas of the curriculum with students in grades 4-12. Make connections to Gregor Mendel's work with genetics, the journey of 100 orphans from the...

This book explores in a theoretical and practical sense the challenges and opportunities arising in the initial and ongoing formation processes for teachers in Catholic schools. It showcases a range of international perspectives on how prospective...

In Practical Knowledge in Teacher Education, expert contributors from across Asia and Europe explore and reflect upon the innovation and creativity in teacher education programs. Specific focus is given to the internships that provide students an...