1st Edition

Thriving as a Professional Teacher How to be a Principled Professional

Edited By Ian Luke, Jan Gourd Copyright 2018
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Thriving as a Professional Teacher explores the tensions and balance between developing the classroom you know will be best for the children you teach, and facing external pressures such as Ofsted, performance management, Teacher Standards and the need to prepare children for SATs and other tests. The book locates the professional in the political context before outlining the key challenges... Read more

Introduction Ian Luke, Jan Gourd 

Section 1: Locating the Professional in the Political Context 

Chapter 1. Policy, Professionals and Professionalism Ian Luke, Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Alison Milner 

Chapter 2. Principled Professionalism Suzanne Hope 

Chapter 3. Developing a Professional Identity as a Teacher Sally Eales, Anne Bradley 

Section 2: Challenges Facing the Professional 

Chapter 4. The Global Professional - Educational Futures in the Making? Sue Wayman 

Chapter 5. Hidden childhoods: the unseen challenges facing professionals in schools today Sean McBlain 

Chapter 6. Creativity and purpose in the curriculum Gill Golder 

Section 3: Laying the Foundations for the Thriving Professional 

Chapter 7. Resilience and wellbeing in childhood; education and therapy Hazel Bending 

Chapter 8: Safeguarding: Rights and Relationships Chris Simpson 

Chapter 9: Using Critical Reflective Practice to develope and thrive as a teacher Jan Gourd, Mark Andrew Dearden

Biography

Ian Luke is Dean of the Faculty of Education, Enterprise and Culture, and University Director for Learning and Teaching at Plymouth Marjon University, UK.

Jan Gourd is Programme Area Lead for Education at Plymouth Marjon University, UK.