Readings for Reflective Teaching in Schools

Readings for Reflective Teaching in Schools provides a portable library of over a hundred readings to support teacher education and professional development. Extensively updated since earlier editions, the book concisely introduces both classic and contemporary research and understanding on teaching and learning. The selection reflects current issues and concerns in education and has been designed to support school-led teacher education as well as a wide range of school–university partnership arrangements.

Uniquely, two types of reading are provided:

- summaries enabling easy access to evidence on key classroom issues – including relationships, behaviour, curriculum planning, teaching strategies and assessment processes;

- analyses of deeper forms of understanding about teaching and learning processes, to support the development of expertise throughout a teaching career.

This collection of readings is edited by Andrew Pollard, former Director of the UK’s Teaching and Learning Research Programme, with the advice of primary and secondary specialists from the University of Cambridge.

Readings for Reflective Teaching in Schools is part of a fully integrated set of resources for primary and secondary education.

Reflective Teaching in Schools focuses on how to achieve high-quality teaching and learning. By design, it offers both practical support for effective practice and routes towards deeper expertise.
The website, reflectiveteaching.co.uk, offers supplementary resources including reflective activities, research briefings, advice on further reading and additional chapters. It also features a glossary, links to useful websites, and a conceptual framework for deepening expertise.

This book is one of the Reflective Teaching Series – inspiring education through innovation in early years, schools, further, higher and adult education.

Andrew Pollard is Professor of Education and supports educational research at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK, and the University of Bristol, UK. He taught for ten years before becoming a teacher educator and researcher. He was Director of the UK-wide Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) and advised the government on the National Curriculum Review.

This book provides compact and portable library - of particular relevance to teacher education and professional development. It is part of a set of professional resources. It links directly to a textbook, Reflective Teaching in Schools, and to a website, reflectiveteaching.co.uk...For primary and secondary schools, we thus offer three fully integrated and complementary sources of materials:..- Reflective Teaching in Schools (the core book for school-based professional development) - Readings for Reflective Teaching in Schools (a portable library with 112 readings linked to the core book) - reflectiveteaching.co.uk (a website for supplementary, updated 'Notes for Further Reading', 'Reflective Activities', links, downloads, etc.)..Readings for Reflective Teaching in Schools has been extensively updated since earlier versions. Whilst some classic sources remain, most of the 112 readings are new. Material from important recent research has been added, drawing internationally as well as reflecting the unique character of the countries of the UK and Ireland. The balance of the book has been adjusted to reflect current issues and concerns in education - and to support a wide range of school-university partnership arrangements...Reflective Teaching in Schools considers a very wide range of professionally relevant topics, presents key issues and research insights, suggests 'Reflective Activities' for classroom work, and offers guidance on selected 'Key Readings'. Designed to be used at two levels, it offers both practical support for classroom challenges and routes towards deeper forms of expertise. It is an established textbook supporting school-based practice for initial teacher education courses across the UK and beyond...reflectiveteaching.co.uk is a website supplementing the two books. For example, there are materials on mentoring which will be particularly helpful for school-based teacher education, and also on how to design and carry out teacher research and classroom enquiry as part of professional development. There are Notes for Further Reading, a glossary of terms and additional Reflective Activities. The section on Deepening Expertise delivers more advanced features, including a framework linking research evidence to powerful concepts for the analysis of classroom practice...This book is one of the Reflective Teaching Series - applying principles of reflective practice in early years, schools, further, higher and adult education.

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