The Teaching Improvement Agenda: What Matters and How Teaching Excellence Is Achieved [Paperback]

Part 1: The case for change  1. The teaching transformation agenda: An introduction  2. A new world challenging schools and teachers  3. Education systems in crisis  4. What does it mean to be educated?  Part 2: Prefiguring changes to teaching, schooling and teacher education  5. A rethink of the school curriculum  6. Exploring the concept of teaching transformation  7. A new school teaching logic  Part 3: Designing a new paradigm for teaching and schooling  8. New concepts for a transformation of school teaching  9. Prefiguring a new grammar of schooling  10. An expanded focus for schools  11. Preparing a new teacher construct for a new grammar of schooling  12. A transformational teacher education program  Part 4: Conclusions  13. Whats been done before and what can we learn from it?  14. The teaching transformation agenda

Drawing on ten years of research into whole-of-school teaching improvement, this engaging text explains what teaching improvement requires, how it is achieved, and how to maintain it in your classroom and school.

Based on studies involving real schools and real teachers, The Teaching Improvement Agenda is focused on what really matters for teachers and leaders in todays schools. The book begins with an examination of the education field to identify the fundamental elements which inform and generate teaching improvement. This lays the foundations for an instructive set of innovative, research-informed strategies which have been designed to empower the teacher and school leader to improvl£-