1st Edition

Reimagining Professional Development in Schools

Edited By Eleanore Hargreaves, Luke Rolls Copyright 2021
236 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

 

 

Biography

Eleanore Hargreaves is Professor of Learning and Pedagogy at the UCL Institute of Education, London. Her key research area is investigating the experiences of children in classrooms and how schooling can become more learning friendly to support them.

Luke Rolls is Assistant Head Teacher at the University of Cambridge Primary School. His main areas of interest are in developing primary curriculum, pedagogy and assessment through high-quality professional development as an entitlement for all teachers.