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Sonia Nieto Ed.; Alicia López Nieto Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
In the past several years, we have witnessed unprecedented political, racial, economic, and health-related ruptures in society. The resulting turmoil has had an inevitable and negative impact on students, teachers, the profession of education, and especially marginalized and vulnerable populations. Academics and policymakers have had their say on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes
Bethune, Adrian; Kell, Emma – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2020
Teachers can't teach effectively if they're demotivated and exhausted; and they shouldn't they have to! "A Little Guide for Teachers: Teacher Wellbeing and Self-Care" explains how wellbeing is essential to effective teaching, and gives teachers practical tools to take back control of the classroom. The "Little Guide for…
Descriptors: Well Being, Stress Management, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Burnout
Stockman, Angela – Eye on Education, 2020
Timely and accessible, this book offers tangible strategies that will help teachers plan and sustain writing workshop experiences that are responsive to the needs of their specific students. Angela Stockman helps teachers understand why some writers may fail to meet their expectations and how to help all writers reach their fullest potential.…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Writing Instruction, Teacher Competencies, Elementary Secondary Education
Hara, May; Good, Annalee G. – Teachers College Press, 2023
This book argues that teachers' active participation in policy advocacy is crucial to creating a K-12 educational system that honors the needs of students, families, and communities. The authors examine obstacles to teacher involvement in policy, analyze preservice and practicing teachers' experiences, and present a model for collaborative…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Advocacy, Teacher Role, Elementary Secondary Education
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Burgos, Daniel, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2020
This open access book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. The book introduces the reader into Open Access, Open Technology, Open Data, Open Research results, Open Licensing, Open Accreditation, Open Certification, Open Policy and, of course, Open Educational Resources. It brings all these key topics from major…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Education, Open Education, Higher Education
Mitra, Dana – Teachers College Press, 2021
How can new faculty find success in academia and what can universities do to support them? In this book, the author demonstrates how a coaching-focused stance toward faculty development can improve equitable conditions within the university and contribute to faculty retention and well-being. For faculty and graduate students, this book emphasizes…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Teaching Conditions
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Moeke-Pickering, Taima, Ed.; Cote-Meek, Sheila, Ed.; Pegoraro, Ann, Ed. – IGI Global, 2020
Women in the Academy are raising issues of pay parity, equal representation on committees, increased leadership positions, stories of resilience, and mentorship espousing changes at all levels including teaching, research, and administration. These strategies demand interrogation, and larger questions are being asked about the place of women…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Equal Education, Inclusion
Hall, Pete; Simeral, Alisa; Goodwin, Bryan; Stone, Bj; Scott, Bess – McREL International, 2019
Authors Pete Hall, Alisa Simeral, Bryan Goodwin, Bj Stone, and Bess Scott identify 24 of the most common "problems of practice" faced by educators--something that is not going quite as well as it could in the teaching-learning process--and show educators how to guide their own self-reflective journey toward solving these problems,…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Educational Environment, Mastery Learning, Learning Activities
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Zugelder, Bryan S., Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
Teacher leadership remains at the forefront of conversations in teacher education, with discussions on recruitment, retention, and effectiveness. Teachers are at the core of schooling, and the roles they assume and types of leadership they engage in are multi-dimensional. Teacher leadership comes in many shapes and definitions. In this sense, both…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Leadership, Professional Identity, Models
Elish-Piper, Laurie; Matthews, Mona W.; Risko, Victoria J. – Guilford Press, 2022
Many standard reading assessment approaches fail to capture the strengths and needs of students from diverse sociocultural, linguistic, and academic backgrounds. From expert authors, this book guides educators in planning and conducting meaningful, equitable assessments that empower K-5 teachers and students, inform responsive instruction, and…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Standardized Tests, Student Diversity, Second Language Learning
MacCallum, Kathryn, Ed.; Parsons, David, Ed. – Springer, 2022
This book provides a single source of reference for educators interested in understanding how industry-based ideas have been adapted into different educational contexts, and supports their utilisation in practice. The link between industry-based ideas and their application in education has enabled educators to develop engaging, collaborative, and…
Descriptors: Industry, Educational Practices, Cooperation, Teaching Methods
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Schwab, Götz, Ed.; Oesterle, Mareike, Ed.; Whelan, Alison, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This volume is based on an ERASMUS+ project that ran from 2017 to 2020. It aimed at empowering both prospective teachers and teacher educators to actively become agents of their own continuing professional development. It further intended to cooperatively establish a culture of self-reflection, as well as an intercultural network of professionals…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, International Cooperation
Frontier, Tony; Mielke, Paul – ASCD, 2016
In too many districts, evaluation of teachers ensures competence but does little or nothing to encourage and support expertise. In this thought-provoking and groundbreaking book, Tony Frontier and Paul Mielke address this issue head-on, combining the conceptual and the practical by offering a compelling vision of teacher growth, along with nearly…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Expertise, Faculty Development
Olson, Steve; Labov, Jay – National Academies Press, 2014
Many national initiatives in K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education have emphasized the connections between teachers and improved student learning. Much of the discussion surrounding these initiatives has focused on the preparation, professional development, evaluation, compensation, and career advancement of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Education, Teacher Leadership, Academic Achievement
Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye, Ed.; Gao, Xuesong, Ed.; Miller, Elizabeth R., Ed.; Varghese, Manka, Ed.; Vitanova, Gergana, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies or analytic…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Adult Education
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