Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - General

Pressure is increasing on all those involved in education, from teachers to policy-makers, to transform schools as organisations, while continuing to implement effective new approaches to teaching and learning. The demand is not only to reach attained targets, but also to be accountable for teaching methods.
Developing Teachers and Teaching Practice brings together a selection of papers given at the ninth conference of the International Study Association of Teachers and Teaching (ISATT). The collection takes as a central theme the issue of education as a key concern within the...

Effective communication between the home and school is crucial for any child's education, but where special needs are concerned, creating good partnerships is essential. This book is concerned with home-school relations from an 'inclusive' perspective. Throughout, it highlights issues that are common across all children and families, those that reflect individual diversity and those that are of particular significance when children have special educational needs. Sally Beveridge provides debates on issues such as:
* the conceptual and policy frameworks that form the background to this...

Effective communication between the home and school is crucial for any child's education, but where special needs are concerned, creating good partnerships is essential.This book is concerned with home-school relations from an 'inclusive' perspective, in that it addresses questions common to all schools, but with an emphasis on children with special needs. The author provides debate on issues such as the importance of community, interactions between the child and their family, and how to promote parental involvement, as well as synthesising legislation and policy issues so that practitioners...

Since the publication of the Coleman report in the US, it has been widely accepted that the evidence that schools are marginal in the grand scheme of academic achievement is conclusive. Despite this, educational policy across the world remains focused almost exclusively on schools. and Richard Arum, this book contributes to a debate that has implications across the board in social sciences and policy-making. It should be useful to students and academics within sociology, economics and education and should also find a place on the bookshelves of education policy-makers.

What does mentoring really mean? What can be achieved through mentor relationships?
This timely book examines one of the fastest growing social movements of our time. As millions of volunteers worldwide continue to add to the mentoring phenomenon, the need for this authoritative text becomes increasingly evident. It capably traces the history of mentoring, unravelling the many myths that surround it, with a combination of intellectual rigour, insight and lucid discussions.
The author draws upon detailed case studies, providing a unique and vivid account of mentoring through the voices...

What does mentoring really mean? What can be achieved through mentor relationships?
This timely book examines one of the fastest growing social movements of our time. As millions of volunteers worldwide continue to add to the mentoring phenomenon, the need for this authoritative text becomes increasingly evident. It capably traces the history of mentoring, unravelling the many myths that surround it, with a combination of intellectual rigour, insight and lucid discussions.
The author draws upon detailed case studies, providing a unique and vivid account of mentoring through the voices...

This book shows how secondary and post-secondary teachers can help students become more responsive to the ethical themes and questions that emerge from the narratives they study. It helps teachers to integrate character education into the classroom by focusing on a variety of ways of drawing instructive insights from fictional life narratives. The case studies and questions throughout are designed to awaken students' moral imagination and prompt ethical reflection on four protagonists' motivations, aspirations, and choices.

The book is divided into two parts. The first provides a...

Good teachers are distinguished by their characteristics - passion, integrity, initiative and more - yet recruitment tends to focus on surface skills and knowledge. This handbook provides a comprehensive technique for spotting and assessing the deeper characteristics of outstanding teachers.

The time has come to challenge many of the age-old assumptions about schools and school learning. In this timely book leading thinkers from around the world offer a different vision of what schools are for. They suggest new ways of thinking about citizenship, lifelong learning and the role of schools in democratic societies. They question many of the tenets of school effectiveness studies which have been so influential in shaping policy, but are essentially backward looking and premised on school structures as we have known them. Each chapter confronts some of the myths of schooling we have...

Presenting a different vision of what schools are, this title suggests new ways of thinking about citizenship, lifelong learning and the role of schools in democratic societies. The contributors question many of the tenets of school effectiveness studies which have been so influential in shaping policy, but are essentially backward looking.

What makes a university teacher 'excellent'? As debates rage about whether this is down to subject knowledge, communication skills, taking a research-led approach or being a technological whiz, this book provides the first in-depth examination of teaching excellence in higher education. Identifying and examining interpretations of teaching excellence, it considers what excellent means and implies for practice.

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What makes a university teacher 'excellent'? As debates rage about whether this is down to subject knowledge, communication skills, taking a research-led approach or being a technological whiz, this book provides the first in-depth examination of teaching excellence in higher education. Identifying and examining interpretations of teaching excellence, it considers what excellent means and implies for practice.

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All teachers experience negative stress in the workplace whether it is due to pressures of the job whilst at school or the perpetual need to take work home. In this informative book, Elizabeth Holmes provides practical advice and solutions to enable teachers to experience less negative stress in their lives and understand the links between the way they function in the classroom and their personal well-being.

Drawing on real life case studies and providing strategies for teachers wanting to be proactive in dealing with their well-being, stress and career, this book outlines all the...

Moore's insightful text explores and makes better sense of professional practice by examining that practice in the context of popular views. The book identifies and elaborates three dominant discourses of good teaching:

* the competent craftsperson, currently favoured by central governments
* the reflective practitioner, which continues to get widespread support among teacher trainers and educators
* the charismatic subject, whose popular appeal is evidenced in filmic and other media representations of teaching.

All of these are critiqued on the basis of their capacity...

Moore's insightful text explores and makes better sense of professional practice by examining that practice in the context of popular views. The book identifies and elaborates three dominant discourses of good teaching:

* the competent craftsperson, currently favoured by central governments
* the reflective practitioner, which continues to get widespread support among teacher trainers and educators
* the charismatic subject, whose popular appeal is evidenced in filmic and other media representations of teaching.

All of these are critiqued on the basis of their capacity...

The authors of this groundbreaking book have undertaken the largest, most in-depth study ever carried out on this topic, in order to assess both teachers and students' views across primary education. Radical and social change are inevitably called upon in order to increase the proportion of men entering the primary teaching profession, but many short-term and more achievable strategies are also suggested here that could be implemented by policy makers and senior managers quickly and effectively. Academics, students, and researchers will also find a long overdue expose of one of the most...

The teaching of young children has long been dominated by women. This global phenomenon is firmly rooted in issues related to economic development, urbanization, the position of women in society, cultural definitions of masculinity and the values of children and childcare. Yet, amongst the media scare stories and moral panics about underachieving boys, there are surprisingly few empirically-supported answers to vital questions such as:

• Is the feminisation of teaching really a problem?
• How is the relationship of gender and teaching considered within a framework of...

This completely updated edition tackles all the issues that new teachers find difficult. It builds on the skills and knowledge they will have learned in their initial teacher education or PGCE course and offers a planned process of professional development.
The book is divided into four sections relating to the priorities that teachers will have at different stages in their first year and includes chapters on: managing oneself and one's workload; working as part of a team; developing teaching and learning strategies; challenging behavior in the classroom; assessing, recording, and...

This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. The five steps involve:

• making learning multi-sensory
• ensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learner
• matching types of learning to the gender of pupils
• using the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the brain
• managing the classroom environment to make it brain-friendly and active in supporting learning.

Illustrated throughout with...

This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. The five steps involve:

• making learning multi-sensory
• ensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learner
• matching types of learning to the gender of pupils
• using the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the brain
• managing the classroom environment to make it brain-friendly and active in supporting learning.

Illustrated throughout with...