Critical Guides for Teacher Educators
About the Book Series
The best place to find concise, critical, well-researched material on current key aspects of professional learning written specifically for Teacher Educators. Expand your skills as a teacher educator or mentor by exploring the wide range of themes, developments and topics for teacher educators in the UK and internationally. Perfect for CPD and teacher education in both schools and universities.
Planning and facilitating group learning
1st Edition
By Marcus Witt, Ben Knight
January 20, 2025
This is an innovative text for teacher educators exploring detailed research and information that novice teachers need to know about group work in school settings. There is more to learn about group work than simply sitting children together and letting them get on with it! Group work across ...
Nurturing Professional Judgement
1st Edition
By Ben Knight
October 20, 2023
In-the-moment dilemmas and situational awareness are central to teachers' work, but these concepts may not always find their way into teacher education - as they often get pushed aside in favour of curriculum coverage and compliance agendas. This book challenges a technicist and mechanistic view ...
Relational Expertise of Teacher Educators: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Lorna Shires
May 05, 2023
A valuable text for teacher educators, including ECT mentors in schools, on the topic of relational expertise. It provides a critical analysis of current conceptions of the role of teacher educator and a theoretical basis for practice. This book provides a concise and clear cultural-historical ...
Using Digital Video in Initial Teacher Education
1st Edition
By John McCullagh
September 23, 2021
A research-based, critical yet practical exploration of the benefits of using digital video in teacher education. Digital video is easy to use and student teachers find it incredibly helpful. Since Dwight Allen first used microteaching five decades ago, video has been recognised as an ideal medium ...
The Teacher Educator's Handbook: A narrative approach to professional learning
1st Edition
By Elizabeth White
May 05, 2021
Professional learning and development for all teacher educators through stories of practice and carefully structured coaching questions. This book provides all teacher educators, wherever they are based, with key opportunities for professional learning and development, especially in relation to the...
Understanding Feedback: A critical exploration for teacher educators
1st Edition
By Caroline Elbra-Ramsay
May 05, 2021
A critical text on feedback and assessment for all teacher educators. Feedback can be key to learning, but its potential value is not always fulfilled in practice. Developing a more nuanced understanding of feedback is particularly crucial in the ITE sector where ITE students receive feedback as ...
Tackling Anxiety in Primary Mathematics Teachers
1st Edition
By Karen Wicks
February 15, 2021
This book provides teacher educators with an understanding of the issues around mathematics anxiety and a framework of teaching strategies to support undergraduates, trainee teachers and established professionals in primary settings in developing confidence in learning and teaching mathematics. The...
Becoming a teacher education researcher
1st Edition
Edited
By Diane Mayer, Ian Menter
January 18, 2021
You can successfully develop your higher education research profile while balancing the demands of training teachers and administration. While teacher education is key to preparing qualified teachers who can educate pupils for the demands of the twenty-first century, many university-based teacher ...
Professional Dialogues in the Early Years: Rediscovering early years pedagogy and principles
1st Edition
By Elise Alexander, Mary Wild, Mary Briggs, Catharine Gilson, Gillian Lake, Helena Mitchell, Nick Swarbrick
October 17, 2018
This book provides early years teacher educators with critical guidance to explore the enduring philosophies and principles of early years’ pedagogy and to creatively interpret and communicate these to those they are training to be teachers and professionals. It is framed by a principle of ...
Teacher Education Partnerships: Policy and Practice
1st Edition
By Trevor Mutton, Katharine Burn, Hazel Hagger, Kate Thirlwall
June 20, 2018
This book supports all those involved in initial teacher education (ITE) and with an interest in partnership working. Such partnerships are at the heart of ITE practices, both in the UK and internationally, but more recently models of partnership have become ever more complex as a result of ...
Teacher Educators in the Twenty-first Century: Identity, knowledge and research
1st Edition
By Gerry Czerniawski
April 30, 2018
This book links theory, policy and practice in a critical examination of the relationship between the professional identity, knowledge, learning needs and research experience of teacher educators. The book concludes by drawing these themes together as a means to support the induction and further ...
Tackling Social Disadvantage through Teacher Education
1st Edition
By Ian Thompson
October 18, 2017
This book addresses key issues related to teaching pupils from disadvantaged and impoverished backgrounds and provides a valuable reference and pedagogical tool for teachers and teacher educators. Research has consistently shown that the most economically disadvantaged pupils have the poorest ...