Teachers and Teaching

Perspectives on a school-led system

• Nick Sorensen

Informed by large-scale quantitative research and smaller-scale qualitative studies, Diversity in Teacher Education reveals a growing complexity in the system of teacher education in England. It finds that responsibility for educating teachers has moved away from universities, while schools have become major players.

A person-centred approach for children with special educational needs

• Nick Hammond
• Nicola Palmer

This book is about enabling children in school who have special needs to be equal partners in the team that determines their education plan, even very young children. Based on empirical research, it shows how person-centred reviews (PCRs) can, with careful and inclusive planning, secure the optimal outcomes for the child.

Essays from Quaker perspectives

• Don Rowe
• Anne Watson

Twelve Quakers describe how the values of love, truth, justice, equality, peace and community can wholly guide educational practice. Their counter-blast to the reduction of teaching to technical skills, and of child development to a series of tests, shows how these values can inspire all British school sectors, Early Years and HE. For all teachers.

An evidence-informed, collaborative professional learning resource for teacher leaders and other leaders working within and across schools

• Louise Stoll
• Carol Taylor
• Karen Spence-Thomas
• Chris Brown

Catalyst is designed to support and promote the change, professional learning and development of groups of teacher leaders, both within and across schools. It consists of two sets of evidence-informed resource cards and a clear and detailed facilitator guide.

Teaching well and keeping the number crunchers quiet

• Jon Berry

Schools visited by Jon Berry demonstrate that in schools which collectively abide by the principles of teaching and learning, and not marketization, students achieve well. His research shows that we can still teach with creativity, energy and innovation, and that resistance to a regime of teaching to the test is both possible and rewarding.

The real keys to school improvement

• Dean Fink

This book argues that nations with higher degrees of trust in their professional educators achieve better results for all students. But trust needs a verification system to remain robust. This compelling book provides a unique, research-based look at trust and distrust and compares their impact on school improvement across seven nations.

How global education reform has failed to crush the spirit of educators

• Jon Berry

Teachers continue to do their best for students despite clumsy government intervention fed by forty years of political and economic circumstance. Filled with the testimony of those who still teach with energy, creativity and commitment, this is a book for both serving and trainee teachers, and anyone interested in preserving a rounded education.

Lessons learnt from three decades of educational research

• Shirley Simon

In this lecture Professor Simon draws on thirty years’ experience as a teacher, teacher educator, and international researcher to argue that teachers’ professional learning can be advanced by engagement with research.

What is an ‘institute of education’ for?

• Chris Husbands

Explores the extent to which teaching is changing in response to external pressures in the twenty-first century. It examines the implications for teachers, schools and learners and asks what this means for research, teacher education and the nature of an ‘institute of education’.

• Christopher Arnold
• Jane Yeomans

This book gives Teaching Assistants precisely the understanding they need about how children’s minds work. Outlining the psychology of human development, of learning and of institutions and groups, it is an entirely revised edition of the successful 2005 book, and is based on the current debates and emphasising multiple perspectives.