Teacher Training & Certification

This go-to manual for the Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF) offers an accessible, supportive set of principles for new teachers. It breaks down the statements of the ITTECF and the evidence base behind them to present a set of...

Beyond Compensation: Empowering Teachers' Unions to Think Beyond Bread-and-Butter Issues is an incredibly important book that explores the value of union representation of teachers on the front lines of public education. After the 2018 Supreme Court...

Questions and questioning play a major role in both formal and informal educative processes. They are the means by which a child expresses the desire to understand the world outside and they subsequently become the means by which a teacher assesses...

School development and staff development are fundamentally interdependent. First published in 1994, Developing Teachers, Developing Schools presents a comprehensive examination of how In-Service Education and Training (INSET) was being utilized to...

Suck Less in the Classroom Tomorrow is an honest and comprehensive guide for struggling classroom teachers looking to improve their craft. Part narrative, part guidebook, it offers an overview of the profession, with practical advice, easy-to-implement...

This book addresses core concepts and practices pertinent to the emerging or experienced teacher educator.

It is commonly understood that teacher educators help develop teachers. It is less commonly understood how teacher educators come to develop as teacher educators themselves. Who and what develops the teacher educator? We know that teacher education does...

This book provides insights into innovative approaches in designing, implementing, and evaluating professional development programs for English-Medium Instruction (EMI) faculty. It offers empirically-grounded solutions to the pressing challenge of...

There is an ongoing tendency in contemporary research, policy and practice to see the teacher as a technician who, with guidance from scientific evidence about 'what works,' can become increasingly more effective in bringing about measurable learning...

Play-based Teaching in Higher Education explores the transformative power of play in the education of future teachers. This volume brings together a collection of research articles that delve into the use of play-based teaching methods with adult...

Achieving National Board Certification in World Languages is the essential companion for World Language teachers who are currently working on, or considering working on, the National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) process with the National Board for...

Mentoring in Formal and Informal Contexts was intended to meet a gap in the academic literature that addressed mentoring practice in different contexts. The book highlights practice and research in higher education of both faculty and students, K-12...

Mentoring in Formal and Informal Contexts was intended to meet a gap in the academic literature that addressed mentoring practice in different contexts. The book highlights practice and research in higher education of both faculty and students, K-12...

First published in 1979, Learning to Teach explores the major educational challenges of its era, offering a unique perspective on teacher training. The book is rooted in an experimental training course for secondary teachers at the University of...

The Concise Revision Course CSEC (R) Integrated Science provides full coverage of the CSEC (R) Integrated Science syllabus. This book provides comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the course. It adopts a practical, supportive approach to help...

First published in 1986, Microteaching in Teacher Education and Training explains the basic principles of microteaching and contributes to the development of microteaching theory. It describes detailed research on microteaching in action carried out at...

Post-Qualitative Inquiry in Sport, Health and Physical Education provides emerging insights on post-qualitative research in Sport, Health, and Physical Education and introduces new ways of engaging with multiple forms of inquiry in this broad field. By...

A richly researched guide to the core competencies and wraparound supports required for quality, ambitious instruction Through targeted assignments, tailored support, and skillful feedback, ambitious teaching promotes deep, conceptual learning, even at...

This book is designed for English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers to shape their teaching practices and integrate bilingual education. It investigates the emerging context of bilingualism in schools where non-bilingual children are taught both...

This book explores teaching methods that foster creative thinking among students across various disciplines. It presents effective experiments conducted in workshops with both practicing teachers and student teachers, aiming to modernize existing...

This book contains an Open Access chapter. Mathematics teacher educators' (MTEs) intimate scholarship is growing in interest and is diversifying research methodologies and products in the mathematics teacher education field. Becoming an MTE involves...

This book details an individualised approach to teaching traumatised students. While being trauma informed is an approach gaining interest in the field of education, frameworks that can respond to the individual nature of traumatic experience and...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the theoretical underpinnings and practical implications of differentiated instruction. By fostering a deeper understanding of the factors influencing the effective implementation of differentiation...

Trainee and beginning primary school teachers must learn how to support children to overcome or reduce barriers to learning. They need to build confidence in their use of teaching approaches that support Good Teaching for SEND, Good Teaching for All. ...

This book explores and builds on the extraordinary work of Professor Paul Black across assessment and pedagogy across the curriculum, including STEM, humanities and social science subjects. This book explores the influence that Black has had within...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Technology Education draws together international perspectives on contemporary praxis in technology education from philosophy to empirical research. Through carefully commissioned chapters, leading authors explore the...

Teacher educator knowledge in curriculum development is situated in a space that is tacit and embodied. It is important to recognize that within the realm of teacher education (as opposed to K-12 classrooms), this knowledge is complex and draws upon...

Conducting research as a beginning teacher-researcher can be daunting. Becoming a Teacher-Researcher: A Guide to Your Research Journey supports you through navigating that journey. This book provides key insights from 18 experienced teacher-researchers...

Conducting research as a beginning teacher-researcher can be daunting. Becoming a Teacher-Researcher: A Guide to Your Research Journey supports you through navigating that journey. This book provides key insights from 18 experienced teacher-researchers...

This book explores the beliefs and practices of Hinduism as a lived religion and engages with Hindu beliefs and practices, including the concepts that form the central beliefs of Hinduism, and the expression of these beliefs in worship and daily life...

How can we design our lives to be sustainable amidst an uncertain future for our planet? How do we know what to trust in an online world rife with misinformation? How can we confront our mental health crises? How can we overcome polarization on issues...

This book incorporates both practice-based information and research to underpin teachers' emotions in the teaching and learning settings of second language (L2) writing, in the Chinese tertiary educational context. It introduces and validates a new...

Introducing: 20 key educational thinkers who have offered challenging perspectives on education Exploring: Their ideas, how to apply them in practice and their relevance to teaching and learning today. Understanding: The strengths and limitations of...

This second collection of perspectives on excessive teacher/faculty entitlement draws together authors from nine countries to address afresh the 'conundrums' affecting teaching and teacher education through the new lens afforded by the notion of...

Continuous Teacher Education in Russia examines the history, recent developments and direction of the modernization of continuous teacher education in Russia, providing a critical insight into the structure and development trajectory of teacher education...