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Your Teacher Training Companion

Essential skills and knowledge for very busy trainees

The second edition of Your Teacher Training Companion is your one-stop-shop for the essential knowledge and skills you need to pass your course with confidence. Guiding you through your time in school and your studies, it will ensure you develop both the practical teaching skills and academic skills required to become a successful teacher. Written in an accessible, no-nonsense style, it succinctly covers the most important aspects of becoming a teacher, showing you how to balance the competing demands of teaching in school, your course and social life. It is illustrated throughout with the case study of a fellow trainee teacher, focusing on developing best practice and ways in which you can pass on key skills to your learners. Essential topics covered include: classroom management effective lesson planning teaching methods learning theory assessment and feedback delivering a highly successful lesson making time and space for your studies improving your writing skills writing assignments and building your teaching portfolio planning and delivering an effective presentation Designed for the very busy trainee on all routes to qualified teacher status, Your Teacher Training Companion, 2ed offers you the essential knowledge and skills you need to get the most out of your time with pupils, improve your study skills, successfully achieve qualified teacher statues and manage your early career as an NQT.

The second edition of Your Teacher Training Companion is your one-stop-shop for the essential knowledge and skills you need to pass your course with confidence.

Best Practices in Professional Learning and Teacher Preparation (Vol. 3)

Professional Development for Teachers of the Gifted in the Content Areas

Several states offer additional teacher preparation programs by providing either an endorsement or certification in the field, but these are often pursued by teachers specifically enrolled in gifted coursework rather than in general education programs. Practitioners and researchers agree that time and energy should be spent on training teachers in how to address the needs of gifted and talented students, both within the regular classroom and in specialized programs.This three-book series acknowledges this need and provides specific strategies for professional development in a variety of settings using various methods. Drawing on both literature in the field and research-based best practices in professional learning, this series provides the reader with a foundation for designing and implementing effective professional development experiences for educators working with gifted learners. This volume: Provides strategies and curricular materials/resources for working with gifted learners in specific content areas (i.e., mathematics, science, social studies, literacy, languages, and the arts). Discusses the importance of training teachers to use high-quality curriculum. Builds off of research on talent development, cultural awareness, and social justice in education. Details instructional strategies that are appropriate for challenging gifted learners, including developing growth mindset.

This volume provides strategies and curricular materials/resources for working with gifted learners in specific content areas (i.e., mathematics, science, social studies, literacy, languages, and the arts).

Handbook of Teacher Training in Europe

Issues and Trends

"Teacher Education throughout Europe is in a process of change. The reform of school structures, changing demographic patterns, technological development and the evolution of social, economic and political structures have all contributed to this process." "This handbook, published in conjunction with the Council of Europe, creates a synthesis of these trends, providing both an overview of teacher education across Europe and detailed explorations of key issues by leading experts in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

" "This handbook, published in conjunction with the Council of Europe, creates a synthesis of these trends, providing both an overview of teacher education across Europe and detailed explorations of key issues by leading experts in the ...

Language Teacher Professional Development

The field of English language teaching continues to become more and more complex. To stay up-to-date with the developments as the discipline grows, English language teachers must work to expand their knowledge base by participating in continual professional development and practicing reflective teaching. Farrell provides useful insights about the many kinds of training and discusses the practices you can engage in to ensure your own growth, including team teaching, action research, and teaching portfolios. Learn about the different stages of professional development, what approaches are right for you, and how you can sustain your growth throughout your career.

Farrell provides useful insights about the many kinds of training and discusses the practices you can engage in to ensure your own growth, including team teaching, action research, and teaching portfolios.

Primary Teacher Education

High Status? High Standards?

Focusing on issues of policy and provision in primary education, this text covers the current national scrutiny of initial and inservice teacher training, the proposal of a general teaching council, and continuing professional development.

Focusing on issues of policy and provision in primary education, this text covers the current national scrutiny of initial and inservice teacher training, the proposal of a general teaching council, and continuing professional development.

Teacher Identity Development Within a Community of Practice

The development and refinement of a professional teacher identity forms an integrated part of both pre- and in-service teachers. More specifically, any person entering the teaching profession needs to engage in reflexive practice when standing in front of a class and putting theory into practice. By understanding one's strengths and areas for further development, a teacher can build self-confidence and develop a repertoire of skills and resources that can be mobilised within the school context.Teacher Identity Development Within a Community of Practice makes a valuable contribution to the existing knowledge base and current debates on professional teacher identity development and how this can be supported by higher education institutions offering teacher training programmes. More specifically, professional identity development is linked to the importance of a community of practice, where joint reflection and action can add value to the continued development of any teacher. The contribution of this book to scholarship is regarded as ground-breaking, as it is based on recent research conducted with pre-service teachers over a period of three years. In addition to the pioneering contribution to existing literature in the fields of teacher identity development and community of practice theory, the publication has practical application value for teachers and practitioners already in the profession.Based on the participatory nature of the methodological approach followed for the FIRE research project, the importance of agency, collaboration within a community of practice, joint reflection and continued action is illustrated. More specifically, the way in which the teachers-in-becoming engaged in cycles of reflection and action while taking joint responsibility for their professional development in communication with others in the field demonstrates how continued participatory research by people on ground level can result in not only theory building but also in positive change and continued future development in practice.

The contribution of this book to scholarship is regarded as ground-breaking, as it is based on recent research conducted with pre-service teachers over a period of three years.

Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development

Research and Practice

Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development: Research and Practice represents a collection of selected papers from the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), which was held in August 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. The volume comprises 18 chapters presenting current research projects and discussing issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world. This collection of research papers will be of use to both new and seasoned researchers in the field of applied linguistics. Teacher educators, language teachers and language policy makers will find this volume equally useful as the papers address current issues in language education.

This collection of research papers will be of use to both new and seasoned researchers in the field of applied linguistics.

Transforming Teacher Education

What Went Wrong with Teacher Training, and How We Can Fix It

Extracts from the text: "Why are fifteen million children and youth in poverty not achieving when we know that low-income students excel in the classrooms of “star” teachers (who comprise approximately 8 percent of the teaching force)?" "Whose needs or interests are being met in education reform today?" “In my own institution, there has not been a systematic assessment of the effectiveness of the basic teacher education program since the institution was founded over a century ago as a teachers college. Imagine, not one ever!” "Teachers who empathize with students and the life challenges they face soon realize that the dysfunctional bureaucracies will not permit them to meet the needs of their students. Half of the starry-eyed beginners are gone in five years or less." "Why does teacher education focus on the managerial, instrumental or delivery system aspects of the profession?" "The expert advice dispensed by schools of education regarding what future teachers should do is not connected to any theory of learning, or to any reality of life in school classrooms." "Why has the recruitment process resulted in a cohort of teachers who are unable to connect with their students?" "Does a qualified teacher equate to a quality teacher?" "The best hope of getting more effective teachers from university teacher preparation programs is to base their budgets on the number of their graduates who serve in challenging schools and their effectiveness with children and youth. At the district level, the salaries of hiring officials should be based on how well these officials identify and retain quality teachers." In this book, 12 distinguished scholars provide a hard-hitting, thoroughly researched, historical and theoretical critique of our schools of education, and offer clear recommendations on what must be done to ensure all children can achieve their potential, and contribute to a vibrant, democratic society.

" In this book, 12 distinguished scholars provide a hard-hitting, thoroughly researched, historical and theoretical critique of our schools of education, and offer clear recommendations on what must be done to ensure all children can ...

Staying Ahead In-service Training and Teacher Professional Development

In-service Training and Teacher Professional Development

This publication focuses on what is being done in teacher development to meet the ideals of broader access to high quality teaching, for an increasingly diverse student body, in eight OECD countries: Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US.

This publication focuses on what is being done in teacher development to meet the ideals of broader access to high quality teaching, for an increasingly diverse student body, in eight OECD countries: Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, ...