Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - General

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.

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.

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 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 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...

With over 400,000 teachers working in schools in England and Wales, this practical guide is designed to help these teachers take charge of their careers and put themselves in the driving seat.

Based upon John Howson s popular weekly Times Educational Supplement column, this book outlines the possible career options open to teachers who:

• have just finished their induction year
• are considering taking on a leadership role
• are looking to take time out of the classroom
• want to come back to teaching.

Written in an easily...

A practical and authoritative guide to common behaviour problems in the classroom, this book explaines typical causes of misbehaviour and shows what teaching assistants can do to calm disruptive children. Using a range of case studies discussed from a teaching assistant's perspective, Susan Bentham explores:

• the role of the teaching assistant in relation to school behaviour policies
• when and how to reward good behaviour
• why we need to understand the reason for bad behaviour in order to deal with it
• how to implement behaviour strategies that really...

Ted Wragg is well-known for his writing on all the essential issues in education and over the last thirty years contributed over forty books and a thousand articles to the field. This book offers a personal selection of his key writings in one volume for the first time. With a specially written introduction, this internationally renowned author contextualises his work and gives an overview of his career. The broad-ranging subjects covered include:

• classroom teaching and learning
• training new and experienced teachers
• curriculum in action
• educational...

Ted Wragg is well-known for his writing on all the essential issues in education and over the last thirty years contributed over forty books and a thousand articles to the field. This book offers a personal selection of his key writings in one volume for the first time. With a specially written introduction, this internationally renowned author contextualises his work and gives an overview of his career. The broad-ranging subjects covered include:

• classroom teaching and learning
• training new and experienced teachers
• curriculum in action
• educational...

How interwoven are the lives of children, families, teachers and school leaders?

In this important new book seven authors bring together stories and questions about the lives of children, families, teachers and administrators. Lives are seen up close, in all their particularity, and explored in terms of the contexts that shape the experiences of students and staff. These stories provide an alternative view of what counts in schools, with a shift away from viewing the school as a business model towards an idea of schools as places to engage...

An introduction to the techniques, contemporary theories and methods of teaching from facilitating problem-based learning to the role of the lecture, this book explores the issues that underpin interpersonal methods of teaching, and offers genuine insights. It will help teachers at all levels to understand the techniques that they can use in different situations, and willenable them to develop more effective teaching practice.

This fully updated second edition contains new material on e-moderating (teaching online) and its implications for teaching theory, issues surrounding...