Full Description
This fascinating and vital book seeks to challenge the effectiveness of current practices in professional development by urging educators to rethink professional learning for teachers and teaching assistants. It importantly brings together ideas about teacher professionalism and how to build creative and trusting cultures in which high expectations are not compromised.
Throughout, teachers describe significant professional learning and growth, often through dynamic partnerships with others, that allows them to inspire imaginative possibilities; different and creative ways to ignite hope and opportunity for children. Four key themes guide the reader through the collection of chapters: professional capital, learning communities, teachers as researchers and subject-specific professional development. They explore:
The types of professional development approaches that support teachers to make meaningful changes within their practices.
The conditions and school cultures that are needed for teachers to meaningfully prosper from professional development.
The impact that unintended consequences of system accountability drivers and funding have on teachers' experiences of professional development.
The ways in which the development of curriculum and pedagogy can be integrated with models of professional development, particular in the creative arts.
Packed with innovative ideas and practical suggestions and co-written by researchers and practitioners, this book highlights the importance of using research evidence to develop teachers' practice within the realities of their own classrooms and schools. This will be a key read for teachers, school leaders, teaching assistants and student teachers.
Contents
Chapter 1: Professional Teacher Communities as Creative, Inspiring Sites of Learning
Luke Rolls and Eleanore Hargreaves
Chapter 2: The Importance of The Chartered College of Teaching: A Professional Body, For the Future Identity and Status of Our Teachers
Alison Peacock
Chapter 3: Leading Professional Development that Works for Pupils and Teachers
Philippa Cordingley with Eithne Hughes
Chapter 4: How Outside Organisations Work with Schools in Developing Professional Learning
Sam Twiselton and Andrew Truby
Chapter 5: Easily Lost in Translation: Introducing Japanese Lesson Study in a UK School
Luke Rolls and Sarah Seleznyov
Chapter 6: Unlocking Coaching and Mentoring
Rachel Lofthouse, Colin Lofthouse and Ruth Whiteside
Chapter 7: Look No Further: Inquiring into Learning Needs as Professional Development
Eleanore Hargreaves and Tim Scott
Chapter 8: Teachers as 'Natural Experimenters': Using T-SEDA to Develop Classroom Dialogue
Ruth Kershner, Kate Dowdall, Sara Hennessy, Hannah Owen and Elisa Calcagni
Chapter 9: Inspiring a Love of Reading: Professional Learning to Develop a Culture of Reading for Pleasure
Teresa Cremin and Aimee Durning
Chapter 10: Teachers as Writers
John-Mark Winstanley and Lisa Moule
Chapter 11: Developing Collaborative Problem-Solving in our Classrooms
Ems Lord, Emma Fuller, Gary Casey, Becky Moseley, Tom Oakley and Tracey Sandhu
Chapter 12: Creative Ways of Learning: Using Therapeutic Arts to Inspire Professional Learning
James Biddulph and Jodie Cariss
Chapter 13: Becoming our Best Practice: Professional Learning to Develop Singing and Musicianship
Doreen Doreen Rao and Jane Wheeler
Chapter 14: Support and Teacher Well-being
Jonathan Glazzard, Jane Stokoe and Samuel Stones
Afterword: 'Teaching is Not a Profession' - Discuss
James Biddulph
