Teacher Education Around the World (Teacher Quality and School Development)

Teachers are the most important single element of the education system but what does it take to create high quality teachers in today’s world? Around the world, countries are struggling to understand how to change their schools to meet global demands. International comparisons have shown that schools in Finland lead the league tables, but why is this, what new policies and practices in teacher education have they developed and how do they support the changes? A number of European and Asian countries also top the list when it comes to providing high quality teacher education, but there is little information about what and how they are doing the work and how they have made changes. The leading international contributors to this book describe the systemic policies and practices of teacher education in eight high-achieving countries and how they are dealing with teacher quality, equity, and the changing global society. Among the countries that are doing well – Finland, Singapore, the Netherlands, the UK, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia and the USA – there is an interesting diversity of policies and practices that support their changes in education, including: <ul>
<li>emphasis on the preparation, induction, support and assessment of new teachers </li> <li>focus on teacher retention, teachers’ professional knowledge and continuing professional development</li> <li>curriculum change and critical policies.</li> </ul>
In addition the chapters highlight the local cultural imperatives that influence and shape the preparation of quality teachers and make change both possible and problematic. Teacher Education Around the World examines what can be learned from the different countries, what policies and practices seem transferable; and which seem embedded in the particulars of the culture of the country. It describe themes that cut across all the countries, documenting not only what they are, but how the countries go about supporting and sustaining changes in teacher education. This book will prove itself an absolute essential for all those involved in teacher education, teaching and educational policy.

Teacher Education Around the World: Changing Policies and Practices (Teacher Quality and School Development)

Education & Teaching

Darling-Hammond, Linda

Lieberman, Ann

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

A useful guide for teacher mentors as they face new and difficult challenges in their work New teachers often struggle to apply their knowledge in real-world settings, and the idea of mentoring these teachers during their first years in the classroom has captured the imagination of schools all over the world. Drawn from the experiences over the last twenty years of the New Teacher Center, the book illuminates the subtleties and struggles of becoming an excellent, effective mentor. The book discusses the five big tensions of mentoring: developing a new identity, developing trusting relationships, accelerating teacher growth, mentoring in challenging contexts, and learning leadership skills. <ul>
<li>Describes in-depth the most common challenges of the mentor role</li> <li>A wonderful guide for both new and veteran mentors</li> <li>Includes engaging firsthand narratives written by mentors working in a variety of settings</li> </ul>
This book is from the New Teacher Center, an organization whose highly respected mentor training model has served over 50,000 teachers nationwide. The New Teacher Center is dedicated to improving student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of teachers and school leaders through comprehensive mentoring and professional development programs.

Mentoring Teachers: Navigating the Real-World Tensions

Hanson, Susan

Gless, Janet

Jossey-Bass

In Teacher Leadership, Lieberman and Miller discuss current changes in the teacher's role, and make sense of the research on teacher leadership. They offer case studies of innovative programs - such as the National Writing Project - that provide teachers with opportunities to lead within a professional community. In addition, they tell stories of individual teachers - from Maine to California - who are able to lead in a variety of contexts. Teacher Leadership offers a new standard of teaching and community that recognizes all teachers as leaders. It shows how to develop learning communities that include rather than exclude, create knowledge rather than merely apply it, and that offer challenge and support to both new and experienced teachers. 
This book is a volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education - a series designed to meet the demand for new ideas and insights about leadership in schools.

Teacher Leadership

Miller, Lynne

Book by Lieberman, Ann, Miller, Lynne

Staff Development for Education in the '90s: New Demands, New Realities, New Perspectives (Professional Development and Practice Series)

Teachers College Pr

This second edition presents a sharpened, contemporary focus on the growth and development of teachers, documenting the contributors' concerns over professionalizing teaching, restructuring schools and rethinking teacher education.

In this publication, Lieberman and Miller explore the affective world of the teacher. They tie the social realities of day-to-day living in a school building to the process of instructional improvement. They aim to help those who have been out of the classroom awhile to remember the challenges and frustrations teachers face. Through verbatim quotations and vivid descriptions, they also permit them to savour the joys of teacher experiences when learning takes place.

Teachers -- Their World and Their Work: Implications for School Improvement

Teachers' College Press

Work of Restructuring Schools: Building from the Ground Up (the series on school reform)

The contributors to this work, including Betty Lou Whitford, Rodman B. Webb and Linda Darling-Hammond, tell a set of stories about real schools, teachers and administrators who face district and state mandates concerning restructuring. It describes the trials and tribulations that they encounter and offers an insight into the lessons that can be learned from these individual experiences. This book provides educators and university faculty with a source guide of compelling case studies and analyses in which readers can see themselves and their contexts (or not) and learn lessons in the restructuring movement that the schools in this book had to learn for themselves. This text is intended for: educational researchers; administrators; policy makers; teachers; union leaders and students of school reform and improvement.

The contributors to this work, including Betty Lou Whitford, Rodman B. Webb and Linda Darling-Hammond, tell a set of stories about real schools, teachers and administrators who face district and state mandates concerning restructuring. It describes the trials and tribulations that they encounter and offers an insight into the lessons that can be learned from these individual experiences. This book provides educators and university faculty with a source guide of compelling case studies and analyses in which readers can see themselves and their contexts (or not) and learn lessons in the restructuring movement that the schools in this book had to learn for themselves. This text is intended for: educational researchers; administrators; policy makers; teachers; union leaders and students of school reform and improvement.

Fifteen years after Lieberman and Miller’s Teachers―Their World and Their Work, many schools and the teachers who work in them are being challenged to achieve more ambitious and far-reaching goals than ever before. In this sequel to their ground-breaking volume the authors bring the reader up to date by addressing the contemporary realities of schools and teaching, focusing on both the constraints and the possibilities embedded in practice. The words and experiences of teachers and principals are used by the authors to show what growth and change look like from the inside―the teacher’s perspective: what change requires, how differences in context and personnel are accommodated, what people learn as they change, and what it feels like in the process. This book is a major contribution to a growing literature focusing on the central participants in school reform―the teachers. It is essential to the success of this transformation that “their world and their work” be understood and supported in all its complexity.

Teachers--Transforming Their World and Their Work (the series on school reform)

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Teacher Education Around the World: Changing Policies and Practices (Teacher Quality and School Development)

Teacher Education Around the World (Teacher Quality and School Development)

Mentoring Teachers: Navigating the Real-World Tensions

Teacher Leadership

Staff Development for Education in the '90s: New Demands, New Realities, New Perspectives (Professional Development and Practice Series)

Staff Development for Education in the '90s: New Demands, New Realities, New Perspectives (Professional Development and Practice Series)

Teachers -- Their World and Their Work: Implications for School Improvement

Work of Restructuring Schools: Building from the Ground Up (the series on school reform)

Work of Restructuring Schools: Building from the Ground Up (the series on school reform)

Teachers--Transforming Their World and Their Work (the series on school reform)