1st Edition

Early Professional Development for Teachers

By Frank Banks, Ann Shelton Mayes Copyright 2001
418 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

416 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

418 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

Early Professional Development has recently been recognized throughout the UK as a key area for improving the quality of teaching and learning in schools. All teachers need support to move from novice to expert. Set out here is a range of articles to help them achieve that goal. Included are practical strategies for investigating classrooms, ideas about teaching and learning, and key debates... Read more
Section 1: Teacher early professional development: the context; Section 2: Teaching for learning; Section 3: The classroom teacher and school-based research.

Biography

Frank Banks has taught in primary and secondary schools England and Wales. He is currently Senior Lecturer and a Sub-Dean at The Open University, and a visiting professor at Staffordshire University. Ann Shelton Mayes is Senior Lecturer at The Open University and PGCE Programme Director.