"Policy-making for teachers' CPD in the UK has in the past fifteen years focused on centralised ways of managing the development of teachers, and has seen an exponential growth in government intervention. Within the distinct education systems of the UK teachers work in differing environments, but have a shared context characterised by the development of new professionalism, shareholders' investment in teachers' CPD and the growth of inte ..."
"Covering the official TTA training standards for NQTs and the Induction Standards, this authoritative textbook goes further by exploring issues relating to subject knowledge in learning to teach. It provides stimulating assistance to subject specialists by helping them find ways of thinking about their specialism, how to teach with it and how to engage with what pupils learn through it. It also features orientation questions, lists for ..."
"What are the key debates in English teaching today? Debates in English Teaching explores the major issues all English teachers encounter in their daily professional lives. It engages with established and contemporary debates, promotes and supports critical reflection and aims to stimulate both novice and experienced teachers to reach informed judgements and argue their point of view with ..."
"Chapter 7: Access, choice and time: A guide to wider reading in schools Jo
Westbrook Introduction Reading gives access to other people's thoughts,
constructions and experience of the world so that readers can move, even
momentarily, away from their own island state to the wider continent of different
minds. Conversely, reading also situates individuals within their own culture,
recording its history and heritage to reinterpret and ..."
"She has written widely on the teaching and learning of English – most recently, The Complete Guide to Becoming an English Teacher (Sage, 2009). John Yandell leads the Secondary PGCE English and English with Drama courses at the ..."
"in. English. Teaching. John. Moss. The editors of this series and this book
debated possible titles for it for some time. The title Debates in English Teaching
for the book (and Debates in Subject Teaching for the series) was settled on
because of the editors' shared belief that many issues in subject teaching are
contested, that rigorous debate is needed to take the discussion of them forward
and that, in the context of the increa ..."