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Issue 10.3
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Issue 10. 3
The CPD Co-ordinator’s Toolkit by Sue Kelly, Sage Publishing
- Description:
- Vivienne Porritt reviews this CPD manual and inds much that will be of use to practitioners.
- Submitted On:
- 16/03/2008
Training the Future Profession – new perspectives
- Description:
- Graham Handscomb heralds the rise of futures thinking and its implications for a transformed school workforce and fundamental reform of professional learning, teaching and educational leadership.
- Submitted On:
- 16/03/2008
The New Role of the Teacher
- Description:
- Magnus Persson describes the fi ve dimensions that the Learning Teacher Network has identifi ed to scope out the new role of the teacher and lays down ten radical recommendations to challenge and transform teacher development and practice throughout Europe.
- Submitted On:
- 16/03/2008
Overseas trained teachers in England - social and profession
- Description:
- Paul Miller spotlights the failure to integrate overseas trained teachers into the norms and culture of UK teaching. He argues from an inclusive and multi-faceted approach, involving all parties.
- Submitted On:
- 16/03/2008
Mutual Learning – induction of newly qualified teachers
- Description:
- Sue Kelly gives a practitioner guide to the induction year and shows that it can be a rich opportunity for shared learning between mentors, tutors and the newly qualii ed teachers themselves.
- Submitted On:
- 16/03/2008
Personalised Professional Development
- Description:
- Patrick Couch describes the fl exible personalised approach to continuing professional development at Sandwich Technology School and the direct gains it has made to improvements in the classroom.
- Submitted On:
- 16/03/2008
Losing the joy
- Description:
- Teacher training within schools is desirable but not unproblematic. David Johnston’s research examines the diffi culties trainee teachers encounter and the effect on their professional learning.
- Submitted On:
- 16/03/2008
The Importance of Learning Space
- Description:
- David Leat describes how the “locus of control” was given back to teachers through collaborative action research. His investigation shows the vital link between teachers’ “learning space” and their professional development.
- Submitted On:
- 16/03/2008
The Development of Higher Level Teaching Assistants
- Description:
- Gillian Tricoglus gives a comprehensive account of the support and development arrangements for Higher Level Teaching Assistants and identifi es issues to be addressed if we are to make the best use of these professionals.
- Submitted On:
- 16/03/2008
Fast Track to success
- Description:
- In this article Alice Major gives a description of the Government’s Fast Track Teachers initiative, run by the NCSL, and illuminates this with some personal testimonies.
- Submitted On:
- 16/03/2008
