Transform your beliefs and practices for twenty-first century learners. Learning to Teach, third edition, offers a unique perspective by positioning the reader as a pre-service teacher embarking on their new career. The reader is introduced to three fictional pre-service teachers whose narratives flow throughout the text. These characters share how their personal and professional life experiences have exposed them to new ways of thinking about young people, teaching, and learning. Using a fictional university teacher education program and primary school, this book explores how educators are working to transform their practices in like-minded communities for radically changing times. It examines current government initiatives and regulations while developing the reader's ability to analyse scenarios, critically reflect on their own assumptions, and develop best teaching practices. New to this EditionNew unique perspective on three pre-service teachers' journeys into the world of teachingNew university assignments and field placements undertaken by the three pre-service teachersA new Part 3: Learning for Learning and four new chapters:Chapter 4: Experience in Schools,Chapter 5: Going Rural ¬- A Community of Practice andChapter 9: Thinking Critically Chapter 14: Ready to Teach and Keep on LearningChapters have been completely revised and include new and challenging questions to reflect current teaching and learning practicesCritical and reflective dialogues from members of the teaching and learning community frame the content from multiple perspectives and modes.
I found an ally in my campaign to morph content, skills, and understanding in online videos by Dan Meyers, a former high school math teacher based in the San Francisco Bay area. Meyers argues in “Math class needs a makeover” that math ...
None of them can afford to ignore the fresh insights into how teachers are made contained in this book.
Learning to Teach
This bestselling book is a unique introduction to the practice of university teaching and its underlying theory.
This new edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent changes to the curriculum.
The book is intended to give enough information and ideas for trainee teachers to approach the practical business of teaching with confidence.
Fully updated to reflect changes in teacher education and the curriculum, the Fifth Edition of Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School explores the background to debates about teaching the subject, alongside tasks, teaching ideas ...
Jane Vella is one of the most gifted adult educators I have known." from the Foreword by Malcolm S. Knowles, professor emeritus, North Carolina State University "The stories furnish 'real life' support for the effectiveness of this approach ...
This book digs deep into the details of teacher learning in a way seldom attempted in teacher education textbooks.
This book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of teacher education, comparative education, higher education, and education policy and politics.