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Improving Teaching: A Guide to Effective Teacher Professional Development book cover

1st Edition

Improving Teaching A Guide to Effective Teacher Professional Development

By Harry Fletcher-Wood Copyright 2026
208 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

  Effective teaching makes a huge difference to students’ knowledge, and their life chances. But improving teaching is extremely difficult – many changes within schools have little impact on classroom practice. This new book from bestselling author, Harry Fletcher-Wood, shows how leaders can design and deliver effective professional development and help teachers make lasting improvements.... Read more

Acknowledgements  Introduction  Part 1: How can we help teachers improve?  1. How can we build a coherent professional development programme?  2. How can we lead effective training?  3. How can we coach individual teachers to improve?  4. How can we help teachers change?  Part 2: How can we improve teaching across the school?  5. How can we choose a focus for improvement?  6. How can we lead change?  7. How can we assess improvement?  8. How can we improve as teacher educators?  Conclusion  References

Biography

Harry Fletcher-Wood is a former history teacher and head of professional development. He has worked on developing expert teachers at Teach First and Ambition Institute, and is currently Director of Training at Steplab, leading their Certificate programme for teacher educators. Harry co-led the Education Endowment Foundation’s systematic review of professional development.

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