Improving learning in a professional context a research perspective on the new teacher in school /

• Other Authors: McNally, Jim., Blake, Allan.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
• Series: Improving learning TLRP.
• Subjects: First year teachers > In-service training > Great Britain.; First year teachers > Professional relationships > Great Britain.; Teachers, Probationary > Great Britain.; EDUCATION > Research.; Electronic books.
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Based on empirical research, including interviews with new teachers, by teachers themselves, on a scale rarely seen before, this book reveals the complexity of learning in a professional context and gives some basic truths about what really matters in teaching.

Table of Contents:

• Linda's story : a new teacher's tale / Lesley Walker
• The early professional learning of teachers : a model beginning / Jim McNally [and others]
• A new concept of teacher-researcher? / Colin Smith and Lesley Easton
• Feeling professional : new teachers and induction / Brian Corbin
• Who can you count on? : the relational dimension of new teacher learning / Jim McNally
• Making room for new teachers : the material dimension in beginning teaching / Phil Swierczek
• The temporal, structural, cognitive and ethical dimensions of early professional learning / Brian Corbin [and others]
• Job satisfaction among newly qualified teachers in Scotland / Nick Boreham
• Fun in theory and practice : new teachers, pupil opinion and classroom environments / Peter Gray
• Design of the times : measuring interactivity, expert judgement and pupil development in the early professional learning project / Allan Blake
• An age at least to every part : a longitudinal perspective on the early professional learning of teachers / David Dodds
• The implications of early professional learning for schools and local authorities / Colin Smith
• The invention of teachers : how beginning teachers learn / Ian Stronach.