Continuing Professional Development

Smart Thinking will assist primary school teachers in their quest to develop students’ capacities as deep thinkers and independent learners...

Supporting Teaching and Learning brings together theoretical perspectives, practical educational ideas and current academic debates to help students develop their knowledge and understanding of core educational issues...

The Art of Discussion-Based Teaching, a singular tool for practicing and pre-service K-12 teachers, guides readers through the process of creating ideal conditions for a discussion, anticipating students’ responses, and guiding the direction of a discussion...

How a staff team works together and how effective and cohesive they are impacts significantly on the children that they care for as well as having implications for the general early years practice and the success of the business of the setting. Drawing together theory and practice this book provides..

The Effective Teaching of Religious Education provides a firm foundation for the teaching of Religious Education at both primary and secondary level. It takes a direct approach to the challenges of teaching RE today and this, together with a range of practical suggestions and examples, make it an in..

Offering an introduction to school life, this book is suitable for teaching assistants who have been inducted, or are going through the process of induction, and are working in schools with children or young people...

Unique in the manner in which it defends both faculty rights and important administrative prerogatives, The Intentional Dean effectively demonstrates how deans can play a key role in bettering their college, the university, and the communities they serve._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_  ..

Unique in the manner in which it defends both faculty rights and important administrative prerogatives, The Intentional Dean effectively demonstrates how deans can play a key role in bettering their college, the university, and the communities they serve._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_  ..

This book explores teacher professional development as a situated, socio-political practice. Drawing on cross-national case studies, and on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, the study reveals the inherently political nature of professional development practices, showing them to be the product of tens..

Perfect as a companion to any elementary science methods textbook or as a stand alone reference for practitioners, The Really Useful Elementary Science Book is a resource teachers will want to reach for again and again...

This book locates teachers’ work and lives in China in a critical analysis of the political, socio-cultural, ideological and educational reform contexts, and demonstrates how teachers retain their commitment for learning and development...

This book locates teachers’ work and lives in China in a critical analysis of the political, socio-cultural, ideological and educational reform contexts, and demonstrates how teachers retain their commitment for learning and development...