This essential and aspirational text is aimed at all beginning teachers whatever your training route, age phase and setting. It explicitly adopts and builds on a new metaphor for teachers' professional learning as interplay between the body of public knowledge and the practical wisdom of teachers within a particular school setting. It also accepts that 'telling' you how to teach is ineffective; you need to 'become a teacher' because it involves identity and practice. Inquiry-based critical...

This book provides a one-stop research-informed professional learning guide for teacher educators to support their work-based development of values, pedagogy and scholarship.Drawing on international research and professional development initiatives, it provides a scholarly but action-orientated text. This practical guide supports the professional learning and career development of teacher educators, showing how to learn in and through the workplace. Key areas of focus include pedag...