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Improving Learning eBook Series

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  • Improving Learning How to Learn

    Classrooms, Schools and Networks

    by Mary James, Robert McCormick, Paul Black, Patrick Carmichael, Mary-Jane Drummond, Alison Fox, John MacBeath, Bethan Marshall, David Pedder, Richard Procter, Sue Swaffield, Joanna Swann, Dylan Wiliam ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils how to learn.This book makes a major contribution to the creation of such a professional knowledge base for teachers by building on previous work associated with ‘formative assessment’ or ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

    The Reflective Professional

    by Greg Light, Roy Cox, Susanna C. Calkins ...
    ′This book provides teachers in higher education with what they need - a compelling framework for improving student learning. It combines a comprehensive synthesis of the latest research on learning and teaching with practical strategies for implementing it in their classrooms′ - Professor Ken Bain, Author of What the Best College Teachers Do, Vice Provost for Instruction, Montclair State ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Groupwork Practice in Social Work

    by Sue Orton, Trevor Lindsay ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    The social work degree requires that students clearly demonstrate competence in working with groups. Many social work students will begin working with families, communities and organisations before they qualify and are regularly assessed on this groupwork practice through assignments and observation. Specialist skills are needed to cope in challenging groups and the authors look at how students ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Doing Work Based Research

    Approaches to Enquiry for Insider-Researchers

    by Carol Costley, Paul Gibbs, Geoffrey C Elliott ...
    With the growth of work based learning and practitioner research this book leads the way by addressing key issues faced by ′insider-researchers′ - learners, practitioners and managers doing research projects in the organizations and communities in which they themselves work, or where they are already familiar with the setting.The authors explore the implications of these research contexts, and ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Learning to Teach in the Primary School

    Edited by Teresa Cremin, Cathy Burnett ...
    Series series Learning to Teach in the Primary School Series
    How do you become an effective primary school teacher? What do you need to be able to do? What do you need to know?Flexible, effective and creative primary school teachers require subject knowledge, an understanding of their pupils and how they learn, a range of strategies for managing behaviour and organising environments for learning, and the ability to respond to dynamic classroom situations ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Reflective Practice For Teaching In Lifelong Learning

    by Ian Rushton, Martin Suter ...
    This book makes the case for reflective practice in post-compulsory teaching, showing how reflective practice might support teachers, as well as being compulsory. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Early Childhood

    A Guide for Students

    Edited by Tina Bruce ...
    Designed for students on Early Years Foundation Degrees and Early Childhood courses, Early Years professionals and Teaching Assistants, this engaging text provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of early childhood.Written and edited by experts in the field, the book clearly explains theory through illustrations of good practice, with case studies, reflective exercises and suggestions ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Professional Values and Practice

    Achieving the Standards for QTS

    by James Arthur, Jon Davison, Malcolm Lewis ...
    The professional code of the General Teaching Council lists eight new standards, each of them analysed here in detail using questions and activities to describe what trainee teachers need to know, understand and demonstrate as they work towards Qualified Teacher Status. Each of the eight standards cover the following issues:expectations, diversity and achievementpersonal and professional ... Read more

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  • Teacher Agency

    An Ecological Approach

    by Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta, Dr Sarah Robinson ...
    Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on this issue, drawing upon an ecological theory of agency. Using this model for understanding agency, Mark ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Rethinking Assessment in Higher Education

    Learning for the Longer Term

    Edited by David Boud, Nancy Falchikov ...
    Assessment is a value-laden activity surrounded by debates about academic standards, preparing students for employment, measuring quality and providing incentives. There is substantial evidence that assessment, rather than teaching, has the major influence on students’ learning. It directs attention to what is important and acts as an incentive for study.This book revisits assessment in higher ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Disciplining and Drafting or 21st Century Learning?

    by Rachel Bolstad,Jane Gilbert ...
    Will todays curriculum prepare secondary school students for life in the 21st century? ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Action Research for Teachers

    A Practical Guide

    by Jean McNiff, Jack Whitehead ...
    Assuming no prior knowledge of research methods and techniques, this book is the perfect companion for teachers at all levels undergoing professional development who need to enhance their formal reflection skills.Providing a detailed explanation of what action research is and its importance in terms of whole school development, this book invites the teachers to try out educational research for ... Read more

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