The best place to find concise, critical, well-researched material on current key aspects of professional learning written specifically for Teacher Educators. Expand your skills as a teacher educator or mentor by exploring the wide range of themes, developments and topics for teacher educators in the UK and internationally. Perfect for CPD and teacher education in both schools and universities.
By Rachel Marks, Ian Menter
February 09, 2016
The use of ability-grouping is currently increasing in primary schools. Teachers and teacher educators are placed in the unenviable position of having to marry research evidence suggesting that ability-grouping is ineffectual with current policy advocating this approach.This book links theory, ...
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By Diane Mayer, Ian Menter
January 18, 2021
You can successfully develop your higher education research profile while balancing the demands of training teachers and administration. While teacher education is key to preparing qualified teachers who can educate pupils for the demands of the twenty-first century, many university-based teacher ...
By Katharine Burn, Hazel Hagger, Trevor Mutton, Ian Menter
April 27, 2015
International trends in initial teacher education (ITE) and induction increasingly emphasise the importance of school-based learning for beginning teachers, and recent policy shifts have given many more schools a leading role in ITE. This book focuses directly on what has been learned from within ...
By Colette Murphy
October 10, 2016
This book provides a concise and comprehensive overview of the practice of coteaching, including its benefits and educational and social implications. Coteaching plays an important role in enhancing the experience and effectiveness of pre-service and in-service teachers during school experience at ...
By Victoria Door
October 20, 2014
This book encourages teacher educators to promote flexible and sustainable practice in their students, enabling them to flourish within an ever-changing educational environment. Research from the UK and US strongly indicates that a coherent theory-practice approach to teacher preparation is key. ...
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By Kim Jones, Elizabeth White
October 20, 2014
This book is designed to help the growing group of school-based teacher educators and those based in higher education develop excellent professional practice across their institutions. The first part of the book provides personal challenges to teacher educators, helping them to develop their own ...
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By Val Poultney
April 03, 2017
Trainees and school-based practitioners are being encouraged to engage more with evidence-based teaching methods. Teachers are now more responsible for the outcomes of their own practice and are charged with sourcing ‘best practice’ solutions in their pedagogical approaches. And schools are moving ...
By Tony Eaude
November 30, 2012
This is an essential text for anyone interested in teaching primary school children, including teacher educators, classteachers and headteachers. What constitutes outstanding or good teaching of children in the primary years is rarely discussed other than in terms of measurable outcomes in literacy...
By Ben Knight, Ian Menter
October 20, 2023
In-the-moment dilemmas and situational awareness are central to teachers' work, but these concepts may not always find their way into teacher education - as they often get pushed aside in favour of curriculum coverage and compliance agendas. This book challenges a technicist and mechanistic view ...
By Marcus Witt, Ben Knight, Ian Menter
January 20, 2025
This is an innovative text for teacher educators exploring detailed research and information that novice teachers need to know about group work in school settings. There is more to learn about group work than simply sitting children together and letting them get on with it! Group work across ...
By Jim Crawley
October 10, 2016
This book provides a call to action for post-compulsory teacher education professionals, both in the UK and internationally, to unite around key principles and practices. The professional, educational and funding turbulence experienced by post-compulsory teacher education since 2008 has been ...
By Elise Alexander, Mary Wild, Mary Briggs, Catharine Gilson, Gillian Lake, Helena Mitchell, Nick Swarbrick
October 17, 2018
This book provides early years teacher educators with critical guidance to explore the enduring philosophies and principles of early years’ pedagogy and to creatively interpret and communicate these to those they are training to be teachers and professionals. It is framed by a principle of ...