Trainee Primary Teacher's Handbook (Continuum Education Handbooks)
by Gererd Dixie
This comprehensive handbook has been written for anyone interested in becoming a primary school teacher. The authors draw on their substantial classroom experience to guide you through the entire process, from selecting an Initial Teaching Training provider and putting together your application, to everything you need to know when you start that all important first job. The book includes practical advice on: - choosing the right course - preparing for, and applying for the course - getting...
Professional learning communities in South African schools and teacher education programmes
by Karin Brodie and Hilda Borko
This book draws together research on professional learning communities in schools and teacher education in diverse contexts in South Africa. Each chapter captures the rich and complex nature of professional learning communities, the challenges in developing and maintaining them, and the extent to which the promote successful learning for teachers and changes in teaching practices. The book shows that professional learning communities can promote continuous learning in response to local school an...
Working with Student Teachers
by Michael A Morehead, Lawrence Lyman, and Harvey C Foyle
Supervising student teachers effectively assures that vital professional experience will be of maximum benefit to the pre-service teacher. Mentor teachers and university faculty who work with student teachers need specific training to make the experience rewarding, while the student teacher requires specific information for professional success. The primary focus of this text is based on conferences, strategies, and specific techniques that mentors can use while working with pre-service interns....
Tensions in Teacher Preparation (Advances in Research on Teaching, #12)
Current accreditation practices require that teacher education institutions in the United States not only create programs that enact research-based best practices but that they also document their existence and efficacy in preparing teachers. "Tensions in Teacher Preparation: Accountability, Assessment, and Accreditation" addresses the challenges of meeting national accreditation requirements, including designing assessment instruments and making data-driven decisions. The process of establishin...
Restorer of the Breach Study Guide
by Dr Monique Morton and Dr Beverly West
Teacher Training and Effective Pedagogy in the Context of Student Diversity (Research in Bilingual Education)
by Richard E Clark
Connect Access Card for How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education
by Jack Fraenkel, Norman Wallen, and Helen Hyun
Research Tales vol.1 (Research Tales: A Research Primer, #1)
by Chineme Ozumba and Aghaegbuna Ozumba Phd
Review of Research and Development in the field of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines
by Ali Rashwan
Studying Your Own School
by Gary L. Anderson, Kathryn G. Herr, and Ann S. Nihlen
`This is a very helpful, American based, account of the way that educational research can be, and often is, usefully done in school by teachers' - Times Educational Supplement `The authors.... have produced a useful resource.... well-written in an accessible... style.... This is a challenging and informative book from which experienced reflective practitioners could learn a great deal' - Evaluation and Research in Education The aim of this book is to aid educators understand and undertake qual...
This engaging and highly regarded book takes readers through the key stages of their PhD research journey, from the initial ideas through to successful completion and publication. It gives helpful guidance on forming research questions, organising ideas, pulling together a final draft, handling the viva and getting published. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical suggestions and tips for readers to try out and adapt to their own research needs and disciplinary style. This text will be es...
This book will help you to understand what works for the growing brain, and (even more important) what doesn't! It is more and more evident that HOW children learn is much more important then WHAT they learn. Babies are born with a drive to learn, but as babies become children this drive can falter. What are the keys to keeping the momentum going, so children are ready for each stage of their childhood as they reach it? We can influence the quality of learning, without buying specialist DVDs, c...
This book offers concrete examples of how data can be used by faculty, staff, and program leaders to improve their collective work as teacher educators. Strong external accountability mandates often lead to tensions that undermine local morale and motivation. This volume focuses on the practical work of navigating these tensions so that valuable programmatic change can happen. It describes policies and practices drawn from a study of "high data use" teacher education programs from around the cou...
Geared toward the novice in mixed methods or the more advanced researcher who needs a quick primer on mixed methods, this text gives the reader a foundation for understanding the methodology in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Intercultural and Multicultural Education (Routledge Research in Education, #39)
By addressing intercultural and multicultural education in a global context, this volume brings together the dynamic discussions and lively debate of intercultural and multicultural education taking place across the world. Not content with discussion of theory or practice at the expense of the other, this collection of essays embodies dialogical praxis by weaving together a variety of epistemologies, ideologies, historical circumstances, pedagogies, policy approaches, curricula, and personal nar...
Mission Statement: The central question in this edited book is how to train teachers of an increasingly multilingual and multicultural American school population. Teacher Training and Effective Pedagogy in the Context of Student Diversity offers (1) a research-based dialogue from a variety of perspectives about teacher training and teaching in the context of student's linguistic and cultural diversity, and (2) three major areas of professional development that have the potential to impact on tea...
Action Research as a Living Practice (Counterpoints, #67)
This is an upbeat volume on educational evaluation. Of special utility is its grounding in issues and practices relating to evaluations of science and technology education. The book should appeal and be useful to a wide range of persons involved in evaluations of educational policy, programmes, and (to a lesser degree) teachers of science.; Contents reflecting international studies of curriculum, evaluation of distance education, and evaluation of technology utilization in Australian schools, as...
Edusemiotics (New Directions in the Philosophy of Education)
by Andrew Stables and Inna Semetsky
Edusemiotics addresses an emerging field of inquiry, educational semiotics, as a philosophy of and for education. Using "sign" as a unit of analysis, educational semiotics amalgamates philosophy, educational theory and semiotics. Edusemiotics draws on the intellectual legacy of such philosophers as John Dewey, Charles Sanders Peirce, Gilles Deleuze and others across Anglo-American and continental traditions. This volume investigates the specifics of semiotic knowledge structures and processes,...