Description
Book SynopsisAddressing the Professional Standards for Teachers and Trainers, this bestselling textbook helpfully balances theory and practice, introducing key theories and concepts relating to learning and assessment as well as providing practical advice on teaching.
Extensively revised and updated to reflect the current educational policy environment, this textbook for teaching provides thorough and extensive coverage of the topics for higher-level awards in Education and Training. The textbook provides a logical progression through the essential aspects of teaching, such as planning and assessment; it considers key related areas including teacher professionalism, equality and diversity, and mentoring and coaching; and it presents this invaluable guidance in an accessible and readable format.
In outlining the challenges, opportunities, and debates in and around lifelong learning, the editors and contributing authors draw on their extensive teaching experience, as well a
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to the lifelong learning sector
2. Teacher education for lifelong learning
3. Theory and practice
4. Professionalism
5. Theorizing the work-based learning of teachers
6. Equality and diversity
7. Learning and learners
8. The curriculum in the lifelong learning sector
9. Reflective practice
10. Practical teaching
11. Learning and teaching with technology
12. Assessment
13. Subject specialist pedagogy
14. Mentoring and coaching in lifelong learning
15. Getting to know the organization
16. Health, safety and well-being
17. Course management and administration
18. Evaluation and quality assurance
19. Career planning and continuing professional development
