Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Professional Development

Create a powerful professional portfolio with ease using the straightforward tools in this expanded edition, now featuring tips on electronic portfolios and National Board Certification.

This excellent resource features step-by-step guidance for one-on-one mentoring and supervision of student teachers.

This excellent resource features step-by-step guidance for one-on-one mentoring and supervision of student teachers.

Managing the performance of staff has become a key concern in education. It is a controversial area with a number of approaches based on very different assumptions. This book provides an overview of some of the key issues in developing professional performance and examines critically some of the key strategies that can be used to enhance professional performance. The first section of the book sets out the development of performance management. The second section deals with theoretical issues. The third section adopts a case study approach mapping out and critiquing a range of strategies...

The authors suggest activities and give support for teaching, and evaluation of teaching, by using actual examples of teacher research into professional issues. They also aim to encourage teachers' narrative writing and autobiographical approaches to...

This ambitious text is the first of its kind to summarize the theory, research, and practice related to pedagogical content knowledge. The audience is provided with a functional understanding of the basic tenets of the construct as well as its applications to research on science teacher education and the development of science teacher education programs.

In recent years, college and university faculty members have witnessed a marked change in institutional climate. Competition has replaced collegiality. Criticism of faculty from outside the university has increased in both volume and intensity. The litigious larger society has arrived on campus with a vengeance.

In this ground-breaking volume, Robert Blackburn and Janet Lawrence respond to these developments by showing how faculty and administrators can benefit from learning how to make motivation, expectation, and satisfaction function in concert when faculty are at work. With the...

In this age of mandated reforms, reflective practice is a truly effective, empowering way to make meaningful, positive changes.

In this age of mandated reforms, reflective practice is a truly effective, empowering way to make meaningful, positive changes.

Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

This volume addresses the pressing reality in teacher education that all teachers need to be prepared to work effectively with linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. Every classroom in the country is already, or will soon be, deeply affected by the changing demographics of America's students.

Marilyn Cochran-Smith's Foreword and Donaldo Macedo's Introductory Essay set the context with respect to teacher education and student demographics, followed by a...

This volume addresses the pressing reality in teacher education that all teachers need to be prepared to work effectively with linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. Every classroom in the country is already, or will soon be, deeply affected by the changing demographics of America’s students. 
 
Marilyn Cochran-Smith’s Foreword and Donaldo Macedo’s Introductory Essay set the context with respect to teacher education and student demographics, followed by a series of chapters presented in three...

This book is a rich resource for all those who support the learning of teachers. These 'teachers of teachers' (ToTs) may find themselves:

Being responsible for staff development within the context of a school;
Running a one-off workshop or a longer in-service programme;
Teaching university-based elements of an initial teacher preparation (ITP) programme; or
Mentoring a trainee during the classroom based elements of their ITP or as part of an ongoing programme of inservice provision.

Based on many years of experience in the field as ToTs and...