Product Description: Most teacher manuals talk about what teachers need to do. That's useful enough, especially for new teachers. But no list, however long, can anticipate every circumstance, and in teaching unusual circumstances are an integral part of everyday life...read more

Product Description: "How does the earnest, humble teacher manage to stay on top of the game? This book will hopefully help to answer that question. It is designed to provide down-to-earth guidance through the maze of responsibilities, challenges and expectations that underpin a successful first five years in the profession...read more

Product Description: In this book, Phil Revell takes a hard look at the teaching profession. Where do teachers come from--and why do so many abandon their career after a few years in the job? What kind of teachers do we want in our schools and what kind of profession are today's wannabe teachers entering? Is it a profession at all?Revell writes with clarity of style and an understanding that comes from having worked in schools for nearly twenty years...read more

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Product Description: This book examines the status of training and continuing professional development of teachers on a national and international level. The authors argue that teachers need to feel that they are part of an empowering professionalism, in which their work has an effect on the abilities of students, and where they play a valuable role in shaping the direction of future society...read more

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Product Description: Provides information on professional issues for student teachers, as stipulated by the Government's Circular 4/98. Areas covered include: legal issues relating to child protection; race; gender; health and safety; bullying; appropriate physical contact; and liaising with parents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a collection of stories based on extensive interviews with parents who teach, providing a study of how parenthood affects teachers' careers. Exploring the link between raising one's own children and educating others, the author of this book asks whether male or female teachers are most affected by parenthood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is an account of modern since the 1930s teaching. The book examines changes in teaching, past policy, and new policies introduced since the 1988 Education Act. In the context of market-led education replacing a public education system, the book looks at the impact of: the end of collective bargaining; the beginning of performance-related pay; and the recent emphasis on local school management and budgeting...read more

Product Description: This text debates the controversies about the role of the teacher, and the place and content of teacher preparation. It is one of four volumes which consider the educational dilemmas which face governments, professional educators and practising administrators in the current changing climate in education...read more

Product Description: This text surveys the latest developments in teacher training and practice, and reviews the effects of policy changes. It considers the professional and personal needs of teachers, from their morale to their remuneration. The contributors subscribe to a belief in the professionalism of teachers, and examine how this professionalism might be maintained in the current climate...read more

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Product Description: This book examines how teachers and students actually go about their classroom business. It carefully avoids the assumptions of policy-makers and theorists about what ought to be happening and focuses on what is happening. In doing so, Cooper and McIntyre offer: * a detailed look at how teachers are responding to the National Curriculum * a unique insight into secondary school students as learners * a grounded analysis of teaching and learning strategies drawing on the psychological theories of Bruner and Vygotsky The book follows on from Donald McIntyre's previous book Making Sense of Teaching and will be of interest to student teachers, teachers studying for advanced degrees and academics involved in teacher education...read more

Product Description: When Sir Claus Moser said in his Presidential Address to the British Association (1990) that "central to all school problems is the state of the teaching profession", he was expressing a widely held view. The decade of the 1980s in many English-speaking countries has done little to improve the morale and work conditions of teachers in publicly provided education...read more

Product Description: The author presents a general model of teaching which encompasses both social aspects of teaching skills and coping strategies more concerned with survival and self, so, allowing teachers to address the purer problems of teaching, that is how to promote pupil learning of relevant and worthwhile skills and knowledge...read more

Product Description: Human Resource Management in Education (Management in Education Series)