Advanced Certificate: Education - Mentor school managers & manage mentoring programmes in schools This module aims at empowering school managers and teachers to develop and implement appropriate mentoring programmes. Read more
Learners and Learning: Section Six. Talking about theory How can teachers use different theories of learning to understand and promote learning? In this module we have explored how people learn and then drawn some lessons from this understanding about how we can teach to maximize learning. We have deliberately Read more
Learners and Learning: Section Five: How can teachers structure learning? In this module we have argued for a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. But in doing so, we have warned against an approach which suggests that learners are capable of learning all they need to know completely naturally, and that schools or Read more
Learners and Learning: Section Four: Text as a context for learning What role do texts and literacy (reading and writing) play in learning, and how can teachers scaffold learning through texts? Read more
Learners and Learning: Section Three: School learning How is school learning different from everyday learning, and how can teachers implement good school learning in their classrooms? Read more
Learners and Learning: Section Two: Learning to know what we don't know Section Two begins to focus on how we learn in greater detail. In particular, it explores the following question: "How is it possible for those who do not know something to come to know it?" How do we, as teachers, enable learners to learn by moving them Read more
Learners and Learning: Section One: About this module This covers the writers’ understanding of learning and how this informs the learning guide. It also explains how the writers intended the module to be studied. Read more
Learners and Learning Module As its title suggests, Learners and Learning is a module that addresses most directly the central, core business of schooling. The aim of the module is to improve the teaching abilities of teachers. It accordingly promotes a theoretically informed... Read more
Learners and Learning: Cover, title and imprint pages, with contents list and preface As its title suggests, Learners and Learning is a module that addresses most directly the central, core business of schooling. The aim of the module is to improve the teaching abilities of teachers. It accordingly promotes a theoretically informed... Read more
Being a Teacher: Professional Challenges and Choices. This module is suitable for both inducting novice teachers into the role of the teacher and for in-service programmes in which practising teachers could valuably compare their own experiences with this systematic overview of the role of a teacher and teac Read more