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  1. Best Practices for Education Professionals

    Edited by Heidi Schnackenberg, Beverly Burnell

    Best practices currently advocate that education professionals consult and collaborate with colleagues across disciplines as a means of providing students and their families a comprehensive, developmental approach to students’ academic, career, and social/personal growth. Best Practices for...

    Published July 18th 2012 by Apple Academic Press

  2. Young Children Learning Through Schemas

    Deepening the dialogue about learning in the home and in the nursery

    By Katey Mairs, The Pen Green Team

    Edited by Cath Arnold

    Series: Pen Green Books for Early Years Educators

    Young Children Learning Through Schemas is a creative and highly engaging text that shows how young children can learn through exploring repeated patterns in their actions. With contributions from a range of practitioners, this book examines the philosophical approaches underpinning constructivism...

    Published June 25th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Becoming a Successful Early Career Researcher

    By Adrian Eley, Jerry Wellington, Stephanie Pitts, Catherine Biggs

    Not that long ago there were fairly clear divisions between researchers at different stages throughout their career, starting with doctoral students then progressing to postdoctoral workers and finishing with academic staff. However, more recently the term Early Career Researcher (ECR) has been...

    Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Improving Your Reflective Practice through Stories of Practitioner Research

    Edited by Cath Arnold

    Series: Pen Green Books for Early Years Educators

    Improving Your Reflective Practice through Stories of Practitioner Research shows how research has informed and created effective and valuable reflective practice in early years education, and offers depth to the arguments for a research-orientated stance to this vital field of study. This...

    Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Developing Advanced Primary Teaching Skills

    By Denis Hayes

    Do you believe that continuous improvement in teaching is essential? Do you wish to enhance your understanding of how children learn? Are you eager to become a well-informed professional? From the author of the hugely respected Foundations of Primary Teaching, this advanced textbook explores the...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Becoming a Primary Mathematics Specialist Teacher

    By Gina Donaldson, Jenny Field, Dave Harries, Clare Tope, Helen Taylor

    What is the role of the mathematics specialist? What is deep subject knowledge in mathematics? What sort of pedagogical knowledge does a mathematics specialist need? How can you best support your colleagues to improve mathematics teaching and learning? Becoming a Primary Mathematics Specialist...

    Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge

  7. The Politics of Teacher Professional Development

    Policy, Research and Practice

    By Ian Hardy

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    The Politics of Teacher Professional Development: Policy, Research and Practice provides innovative insights into teachers’ continuing development and learning in contemporary western contexts. Rather than providing a list of "how-tos" and "must dos," this volume is premised on the understanding...

    Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge

  8. The Teacher's Reflective Practice Handbook

    Becoming an Extended Professional through Capturing Evidence-Informed Practice

    By Paula Zwozdiak-Myers

    What do we mean by reflective practice? What does it involve? How can it help you develop as a teacher? The Teacher’s Reflective Practice Handbook is an essential source of advice, guidance and ideas for both student and practising teachers. Helping you to translate pedagogical knowledge into...

    Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  9. New Perspectives in Special Education

    Contemporary philosophical debates

    By Michael Farrell

    This book should be read by everyone who wants to understand special education today. New Perspectives in Special Education opens the door to the fascinating and vitally important world of theory that informs contemporary special education. It examines theoretical and philosophical...

    Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  10. Peer-Group Mentoring for Teacher Development

    Edited by Hannu L. T. Heikkinen, Hannu Jokinen, Päivi Tynjälä

    Supporting new teachers is a common challenge globally and the European Commission has recently emphasised the need to promote a lifelong continuum of teachers’ professional development by building bridges between pre-service and in-service teacher education. Peer-Group Mentoring for Teacher...

    Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge