Unpacks the benefits of using technology in education, answering the question, "How can technology free teachers from time and effort devoted to routine matters to instead assume roles that are potentially more satisfying and supportive of their students' learning?" Renowned educators McDiarmid and Zhao explore a timely and critical issue, discussing how technology can revolutionize education in ways that will better position students for an uncertain future. The latest book in the well-known Routledge Leading Change series edited by Andy Hargreaves and Pak Tee Ng.

Unpacks the benefits of using technology in education, answering the question, "How can technology free teachers from time and effort devoted to routine matters to instead assume roles that are potentially more satisfying and supportive of their students' learning?" Renowned educators McDiarmid and Zhao explore a timely and critical issue, discussing how technology can revolutionize education in ways that will better position students for an uncertain future. The latest book in the well-known Routledge Leading Change series edited by Andy Hargreaves and Pak Tee Ng.

This volume draws on empirical evidence to explore the interplay between language teacher identity (LTI) and professional learning and instruction in the field of TESOL. In doing so, it makes a unique contribution to the field of language teacher education. By reconceptualizing teacher education, teaching, and ongoing teacher learning as a continuous, context-bound process of identity work, Language Teacher Identity in TESOL discusses how teacher identity serves as a framework for classroom practice, professional, and personal growth. Divided into five sections, the text explores key themes including narratives and writing; multimodal spaces; race, ethnicity, and language; teacher emotions; and teacher educator-researcher practices. The 15 chapters offer insight into the experiences of preservice teachers, in-service teachers, and teacher educators in global TESOL contexts including Canada, Japan, Korea, Norway, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This text will be an ideal resource for researchers, academics, and scholars interested in furthering their knowledge of concepts grounding LTI, as well as teachers and teacher educators seeking to implement identity-oriented approaches in their own pedagogical practices.

This book traces the early history of the Montessori movement in the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle. Caught up in the Montessori craze sweeping the United States in the Progressive era, each played a significant role in the initial transference of Montessori education to America and its implementation from 1910 to 1920. Despite the continuing international recognition of Maria Montessori and the presence of Montessori schools world-wide, Montessori receives only cursory mention in the history of education, especially by recognized historians in the field and in courses in professional education and teacher preparation. The authors, in seeking to fill this historical void, integrate institutional history with analysis of the interplay and tensions between these four women to tell this educational story in an interesting-and often dramatic-way.

* Demonstrates the power of picture books to meet diverse learners' social and emotional and academic needs * Practical resources for educators, including book lists and ideas for lesson plans aligned to standards * Applicable to teachers in gifted and mixed-ability classrooms as well as homeschooling parents

This inviting book is a bridge between two major strands of reading instruction that are often held in opposition: the science of reading and artful approaches to teaching reading. Although the current climate of literacy instruction positions these approaches as diametrically opposed, the authors Young, Paige, and Rasinski describe how teachers can use the science of reading to engage students in artful, engaging, and authentic instruction. The authors reveal how effective teaching is a dynamic process that requires agency and creativity and show how teachers make artful shifts based on the needs of students in specific contexts. Chapters include a range of examples and explanations of how artful teaching is integrated into reading instruction and how it can increase students' motivation and positive attitudes toward reading. The concise and practical chapters cover key topics, including phonemic awareness, reading fluency, vocabulary, assessment, home and family reading, and more. This essential road map for all pre-service and in-service reading teachers restores the importance of teacher agency, supports the critical understanding of reading research, and allows teachers to use their knowledge, experience, and creative approaches in the classroom. This is the definitive guide to teaching reading as both an art and a science.

Foreign Language Learning in the Digital Age addresses the growing significance of diversifying media in contemporary society and expands on current discourses that have formulated media and a multitude of literacies as integral objectives in 21st-century education. The book engages with epistemological and critical foundations of multiliteracies and related pedagogies for foreign language-learning contexts. It includes a discussion of how multimodal and digital media impact meaning-making practices in learning, the inherent potentials and challenges that are foregrounded in the use of multimodal and digital media and the contribution that (foreign) language education can provide in developing multiliteracies. The volume additionally addresses foreign language education across the formal educational spectrum: from primary education to adult and teacher education. This multifaceted volume presents the scope of media and literacies for foreign language education in the digital age and examples of best practice for working with media in formal language learning contexts. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of language teaching and learning, digital education, media education, applied linguistics and TESOL.

High Leverage Practices for Inclusive Classrooms, Second Edition offers a set of practices that are integral to the support of student learning, and that can be systematically taught, learned, and implemented by those entering the teaching profession. In this second edition, chapters have been fully updated to reflect changes in the field since its original publication, and feature all new examples illustrating the use of HLPs and incorporating culturally responsive practices. Focused primarily on Tiers 1 and 2-or work that mostly occurs with students with mild to moderate disabilities in general education classrooms-this powerful, research-based resource provides rich, practical information highly suitable for teachers, and additionally useful for teacher educators and teacher preparation programs.

Those facts. Those dates. Those four walls. Those still and petrified fossils of traditional history courses. Sure, it's history, but do we have to turn to tradition for guidance? Let's make it worth the students time. Let's give them something to take beyond their high school experience. Let's reboot history. The goal of the social studies is to provide students with the tools necessary to be active and productive citizens. History teachers need to assist their students in developing problem-solving skills for real-life scenarios, and this can be done whether we teach students about Ancient Athens or modern Akron, Ohio. The ancient Mediterranean, the Italian Renaissance, and the British East India Company are very distant concepts, far from what our students find as relevant. The same skills can be acquired by studying something nearer to the students' interests and everyday life. So, take a moment to take a step back from the history curriculum, and ask yourself: "What skills will my students need in five years?"

This book presents recent international research on how teacher educators, institutions and policy makers perceive, act on and experience the dual responsibility that teacher educators are required to develop. Teacher educators are both teachers and researchers, a hybrid position which might be challenging to fulfil. Teacher education has attracted much research over the years. It has also been subject to national and international debates about its goals and core features as well as issues of quality and effectiveness. More recently, attention has been given to the work, identity and professional development of teacher educators. The various chapters in the book address the topic of teacher educators as teachers and researchers in diverse countries and contexts, namely Australia, Belgium, England, Ireland, Israel, Portugal, Norway and the USA. Collectively, the authors examine the work of teacher educators considering their core mission, their professional development opportunities and the demands and needs of their working contexts. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the European Journal of Teacher Education.

The book clearly defines the terms ‘coaching’ and ‘mentoring’ before looking at how coaching and mentoring are used in schools to develop teachers, and how these strategies can be used to help teachers to continue to develop to become confident classroom practitioners, as well as future leaders. The book also considers the key challenges and issues mentors and coaches might face. Each chapter explores each development phase of a teacher’s learning journey, covering how coaches and mentors can offer support and provide a safe supportive environment to allow teachers to continue to grow and develop.

* This practical resource guides students step-by-step through the writing of a personal narrative * Provides young writers with an opportunity to link their personal lives and school experiences via writing * Will transform a writing classroom into one of enthusiasm and engagement in which children find their own voice and style * Provides a detailed guide to the writing process, demonstrates different techniques, and provides useful tips and suggestions on how to revise a text and transform it into a vivid, powerful, descriptive personal narrative. * A great vehicle for welcoming and celebrating different cultures, experiences and stories into the writing curriculum. * An ideal resource to dramatically improve children's writing for all KS2 primary and KS3 secondary English teachers, literacy coordinators and parents

This text both challenges and traces the development of a culture of regulation, standardization, performativity, and governmentality evident in Anglophone teaching practice and education. Framed by a brief history of teacher education research and policy in North America over the last six decades, the text argues that the instrumentalization of curriculum and pedagogy has robbed teachers of their pedagogical soul, passion, and purpose. Using a conceptual model, Grimmett forges a pathway for teachers to adopt a soulful way forward in professional practice, individually and collectively enhancing autonomy over programs, and protecting the public trust placed in them as educators. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in teachers and teacher education, educational policy and politics, and curriculum thinking and enactment more broadly. Those specifically interested in pedagogy, educational change and reform, and the philosophy of education will also benefit from this book.

* Professor (Fiore) and a former university president (Koverola) team up to harness their extensive professional expertise in cross-cultural communication and education, their years of personal experience working through conflicts in higher education together, and their collaborative research to invite readers into their own professional cultures, offer translations, and share their frustrations and confusions about the other. * The authors lay out a roadmap by presenting both faculty and administration as two different societal cultures whose members need to learn about each other and how to work together. * Every chapter is anchored in theory and application - case studies illustrate real experiences for faculty, administrators, and other higher education community members ; discussion questions provide starting points for readers to discuss case study material with members of their own educational group culture and across groups, as readers gain familiarity with content and build "muscle" and confidence to consider new/unfamiliar perspectives. * Every chapter provides activities and/or resources that administrators and faculty members may use in their current settings. The activities have been designed and tested by employees in institutions of higher educators across the country and abroad.

This book explores the importance of social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools to foster supportive environments and good relationships. It presents research from nine different countries with discussion of how teachers, student teachers and policymakers can ensure successful SEL at school. The book stresses the importance of social and emotional learning to allow students to become more autonomous and active in their own learning and presents very innovative ways of learning and teaching the skills. It makes the case for understanding the processes of how SEL can develop and how it can work in different cultural contexts, considering different challenges of implementing SEL within the school context. The chapters draw on theoretical discussions illustrated by practical examples and explore the role of teacher training in SEL and how SEL can be applied within the school curriculum. Discussing an increasingly important topic in the field of education around the world, this book will be of great interest to academics, researchers, educational leaders and university teacher trainers interested in developing social and emotional learning and overall well-being at school.

Timely and accessible, this book critically explores the meaning and practice of teacher advocacy. Drawing from the work of teachers who advocate with and for students who are traditionally marginalized-including students of color, students with exceptionalities, students in poverty, and immigrant students-this volume investigates classroom realities like inequitable distribution of resources, student trauma, and uneven support for teachers' work from administrators. Unlike other texts on teacher activism, this book embeds activism within an existing leadership framework and strategies that teachers enact within the classroom, across the school, and in their communities. Foregrounding data in the five case studies, this book is an invaluable resource for pre-service teachers and scholars in teacher education, social justice education, and educational leadership.

* Professor (Fiore) and a former university president (Koverola) team up to harness their extensive professional expertise in cross-cultural communication and education, their years of personal experience working through conflicts in higher education together, and their collaborative research to invite readers into their own professional cultures, offer translations, and share their frustrations and confusions about the other. * The authors lay out a roadmap by presenting both faculty and administration as two different societal cultures whose members need to learn about each other and how to work together. * Every chapter is anchored in theory and application - case studies illustrate real experiences for faculty, administrators, and other higher education community members ; discussion questions provide starting points for readers to discuss case study material with members of their own educational group culture and across groups, as readers gain familiarity with content and build "muscle" and confidence to consider new/unfamiliar perspectives. * Every chapter provides activities and/or resources that administrators and faculty members may use in their current settings. The activities have been designed and tested by employees in institutions of higher educators across the country and abroad.

This edited volume provides research-based knowledge on the use, production and assessment of multimodal texts in the teaching and learning of English as an Additional Language (EAL). The book reflects growing interest in research on EAL, with increasing numbers of learners of English worldwide and the growing relevance of EAL to numerous education systems. The volume examines different aspects of English from a multimodal perspective, showcasing empirical research from across five continents and all three levels of education. Applying frameworks based on Multimodal Social Semiotics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, chapters focus on the use and affordances of multimodal texts in pedagogy, literature, culture, text production, assessment and curriculum development connected to EAL. Directing attention to the significance of modes beyond speech and writing in EAL, the volume provides a wide range of perspectives and experiences that can be applied more widely and inspire other practices in the global and diverse field of EAL teaching, learning and assessment. This collection will be of interest to scholars in multimodality, language education, and teacher education.

Helps to develop knowledge of authentic instructional methods (such as role playing, inquiry, and values clarification) that are applicable to ESS. Provides a comprehensive view of social studies that encourages reader awareness of and appreciation for their emotional and social identities. Provides readers with the context for social studies teaching, offers explanations of current content topics, and presents authentic instructional strategies for classroom use.

This book is about two innovative methods for teachers of bilingual students to use in improving their academic achievement. Transacquisition Pedagogy or TAP developed by Tauwehe Sophie Tamati is the method described in the book's first part. It uses principles of flexible bilingualism and a task sequenced approach. The success of TAP in an intervention study in two of New Zealand's Maori schools illustrates how cognitive and linguistic processes can be used to increase student conceptual understanding and to improve their academic biliteracy. Part two is about the Curriculum Design Coherence Model (CDC Model) created by Elizabeth Rata. It shows teachers how to design concepts, content and competencies to connect academic knowledge and thinking processes. The CDC Model has proved its success in the Knowledge-Rich School Project in New Zealand and England. TransAcquistion Pedagogy and the CDC Model are aligned. TAP works by putting the CDC design method into practice. The separate usefulness of TAP and the CDC Model and the added value of their alignment provides an innovative approach to education. Used together or separately they provide invaluable teaching methods for bilingual, immersion and mainstream education.

This text demonstrates how collective reflection can function as a central part of effective teacher preparation for work in inclusive bilingual environments. Through analysis of rich qualitative data, Teacher Education for Inclusive Bilingual Contexts shows how group reflection supports pre-service educators to recognize the intersectional circumstances faced by students and understand their identities beyond the possible confines of disability. This, in turn, engenders reconceptualization of standardized expectations and implicates the educator in developing student agency through individualized use of routine, language, and materials. The author offers cultural historical activity theory and disability studies in education as a basis for dialectal interactions to unearth contradictions and misunderstandings surrounding language acquisition and the learning of emergent bilinguals and highlight the ways in which educators can disrupt oppressive practices through expansive learning opportunities. This insightful volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of inclusive education and disability studies, bilingual and language education, and teacher education.

- There has been a huge increase in mental health issues in young children - this book sets out practical strategies to build strong relationships between practitioners and children which will support their wellbeing and learning - Applicable to all primary age children (not just those who have experienced trauma or diagnosed with a mental health issue) - Provides a range of practical strategies and uses accessible language, but also underpinned by a recent and rigorous theoretical perspective - Sets out an holistic approach that extends to a whole learning culture

Timely and accessible, this book critically explores the meaning and practice of teacher advocacy. Drawing from the work of teachers who advocate with and for students who are traditionally marginalized-including students of color, students with exceptionalities, students in poverty, and immigrant students-this volume investigates classroom realities like inequitable distribution of resources, student trauma, and uneven support for teachers' work from administrators. Unlike other texts on teacher activism, this book embeds activism within an existing leadership framework and strategies that teachers enact within the classroom, across the school, and in their communities. Foregrounding data in the five case studies, this book is an invaluable resource for pre-service teachers and scholars in teacher education, social justice education, and educational leadership.

Helps to develop knowledge of authentic instructional methods (such as role playing, inquiry, and values clarification) that are applicable to ESS. Provides a comprehensive view of social studies that encourages reader awareness of and appreciation for their emotional and social identities. Provides readers with the context for social studies teaching, offers explanations of current content topics, and presents authentic instructional strategies for classroom use.

* Written by top expert on reflective practice Thomas Farrell * Clear and accessible, assumes no prior background on reflective practice and suitable for any preservice language teacher * Each chapter features many practical reflection activities suitable to different contexts and situations