This groundbreaking work examines teacher quality, work norms, and professional learning opportunities using data from 47 countries around the globe. The authors specifically compare and contrast the United States with two high-achieving countriesJapan and Australiathat have implemented very different approaches to improving teacher quality.
This groundbreaking work examines teacher quality, work norms, and professional learning opportunities using data from 47 countries around the globe. ...
As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers from their own professional and instructional agency, and stultify children s passion for learning, new techniques are needed for understanding and transforming educational practices. Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well facilitates meaningful change in early years education by providing early childhood and elementary school teachers with methods to incorporate narrative into their instruction and inquiry. This book offers...
As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers from their own professional and instructional ag...
As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers from their own professional and instructional agency, and stultify children s passion for learning, new techniques are needed for understanding and transforming educational practices. Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well facilitates meaningful change in early years education by providing early childhood and elementary school teachers with methods to incorporate narrative into their instruction and inquiry. This book offers...
As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers from their own professional and instructional ag...
Documentation and Inquiry in the Early Childhood Classroom explores teacher inquiry, reflection, and research and the documentation of these processes within a variety of school sites and models. Compiling underrepresented inquiry stories from practicing teachers and administrators in early childhood (0-5) classrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area, this book highlights the power of the community in supporting professional development for early childhood educators and the education of young children. Important elements addressed include teacher learning, children's curricula, parent...
Documentation and Inquiry in the Early Childhood Classroom explores teacher inquiry, reflection, and research and the documentation of the...
Documentation and Inquiry in the Early Childhood Classroom explores teacher inquiry, reflection, and research and the documentation of these processes within a variety of school sites and models. Compiling underrepresented inquiry stories from practicing teachers and administrators in early childhood (0-5) classrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area, this book highlights the power of the community in supporting professional development for early childhood educators and the education of young children. Important elements addressed include teacher learning, children's curricula, parent...
Documentation and Inquiry in the Early Childhood Classroom explores teacher inquiry, reflection, and research and the documentation of the...