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.
Evidence-based teaching in primary education
1st Edition
Edited
By Val Poultney
April 03, 2017
Trainees and school-based practitioners are being encouraged to engage more with evidence-based teaching methods. Teachers are now more responsible for the outcomes of their own practice and are charged with sourcing ‘best practice’ solutions in their pedagogical approaches. And schools are moving ...
Coteaching in Teacher Education: Innovative Pedagogy for Excellence
1st Edition
By Colette Murphy
October 10, 2016
This book provides a concise and comprehensive overview of the practice of coteaching, including its benefits and educational and social implications. Coteaching plays an important role in enhancing the experience and effectiveness of pre-service and in-service teachers during school experience at ...
Post Compulsory Teacher Educators: Connecting Professionals
1st Edition
By Jim Crawley
October 10, 2016
This book provides a call to action for post-compulsory teacher education professionals, both in the UK and internationally, to unite around key principles and practices. The professional, educational and funding turbulence experienced by post-compulsory teacher education since 2008 has been ...
Ability-grouping in Primary Schools: Case Studies and Critical Debates
1st Edition
By Rachel Marks
February 09, 2016
The use of ability-grouping is currently increasing in primary schools. Teachers and teacher educators are placed in the unenviable position of having to marry research evidence suggesting that ability-grouping is ineffectual with current policy advocating this approach.This book links theory, ...
Teacher Status and Professional Learning: The Place Model
1st Edition
By Linda Clarke
February 09, 2016
The concepts of status and professionalism are key issues in teaching and teacher education across the United Kingdom and internationally. While there is increasing recognition that high quality teachers are crucial, this coexists with a persistent culture of blaming and shaming them. Student ...
Beginning Teachers' Learning: Making experience count
1st Edition
By Katharine Burn, Hazel Hagger, Trevor Mutton
April 27, 2015
International trends in initial teacher education (ITE) and induction increasingly emphasise the importance of school-based learning for beginning teachers, and recent policy shifts have given many more schools a leading role in ITE. This book focuses directly on what has been learned from within ...
Theories of Professional Learning: A Critical Guide for Teacher Educators
1st Edition
By Carey Philpott
November 04, 2014
An essential guide to a number of important theories of professional learning, of particular value both to those taking on new responsibilities in relation to initial teacher education (ITE) and those interested in developing new ways of working in partnership. Each chapter provides a concise and ...
Developing Creative and Critical Educational Practitioners
1st Edition
By Victoria Door
October 20, 2014
This book encourages teacher educators to promote flexible and sustainable practice in their students, enabling them to flourish within an ever-changing educational environment. Research from the UK and US strongly indicates that a coherent theory-practice approach to teacher preparation is key. ...
Developing outstanding practice in school-based teacher education
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Jones, Elizabeth White
October 20, 2014
This book is designed to help the growing group of school-based teacher educators and those based in higher education develop excellent professional practice across their institutions. The first part of the book provides personal challenges to teacher educators, helping them to develop their own ...
How do expert primary classteachers really work?: A critical guide for teachers, headteachers and teacher educators
1st Edition
By Tony Eaude
November 30, 2012
This is an essential text for anyone interested in teaching primary school children, including teacher educators, classteachers and headteachers. What constitutes outstanding or good teaching of children in the primary years is rarely discussed other than in terms of measurable outcomes in literacy...