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Teacher Training
Rationale
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) is required in England and Wales to become, and continue being, a teacher in the state and special education sectors. Similar statuses exist in the rest of the United Kingdom (Scotland and Northern Ireland), but under different names.
- Standards for the Award of Qualified Teacher Status
- Gaining Qualified Teachers Status(QTS)
- General Teaching Council for England
- General Teaching Council for Wales
- General Teaching Council for Scotland
- General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland
- Postgraduate study: teacher training, social work, healthcare
- Further education lecturer: Job description and activities
- The Higher Education Academy
- PCGE Education Options
UK
Eduction Systems
Here you’ll find our briefing on the major differences between
UK and US education systems, including information on the national
curriculum, grading and examinations, as well as links to additional
resources.
What ought to be
done about ought: ethical literacy for teaching
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Teaching and Learning Resources
Challenges in Education
Tutorials
- Knowledge Transfer
- Digital Learning Environment
- Widening Participation
- The Academic Benefits of Widening Participation: developing the professional (philosophical?) case
Readings
Knowledge transfer in the fields of organizational development and organizational learning is the practical problem of transferring knowledge from one part of the organization to another organization (or all other) parts of the organization. Like Knowledge Management, Knowledge transfer seeks to organize, create, capture or distribute knowledge and ensure its availability for future users.
It is considered to be more than just a communication problem. If it were merely that, then a memorandum, an e-mail or a meeting would accomplish the knowledge transfer. Knowledge transfer is more complex because knowledge resides in organizational members, tools, tasks, and their subnetworks (Argote & Ingram, 2000) and much knowledge in organizations is tacit or hard to articulate (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995). The subject has been taken up under the title of Knowledge Management since the 1990s.
- Background
- Knowledge transfer between public and private domains
- Types of knowledge
- Challenges
- Process
- Practices
- Incorrect usage
- References
- Perspectives of Learning
- Widening participation
- Challenges for education and training policies and research arising from European integration and enlargement
- The Challenges for India’s Education System
Educational Psychology
Tutorials
Readings
Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Although the terms "educational psychology" and "school psychology" are often used interchangeably, researchers and theorists are likely to be identified as educational psychologists, whereas practitioners in schools or school-related settings are identified as school psychologists. Educational psychology is concerned with the processes of educational attainment among the general population and sub-populations such as gifted children and those subject to specific disabilities. |
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Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline analogous to the relationship between medicine and biology. Educational psychology in turn informs a wide range of specialities within educational studies, including instructional design, educational technology, curriculum development, organizational learning, special education and classroom management. Educational psychology both draws from and contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences. In universities, departments of educational psychology are usually housed within faculties of education, possibly accounting for the lack of representation of educational psychology content in introductory psychology textbooks.[1]
- Social, moral and cognitive development
- Individual differences and disabilities
- Learning and cognition
- Motivation
- Research methodology
- Applications in instructional design and technology
- Applications in teaching
- History
- Careers in educational psychology
- Research journals
- Educational Psychology Resources by Athabasca University
- Division 15 of the American Psychological Association
- School Psychology on the Web
- Careers in Educational Psychology
- Educational Psychology by Anita Woolfolk
- The Psychology of Education by Martyn Long
- Educational Psychology: Effective Teaching, Effective Learning by Elliot, Kratochwill, Cook & Travers
- The 100-Year Journey of Educational Psychology by David C. Berliner
- Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database
- Classics in the History of Psychology
- Geary, D. C. (2005). Folk knowledge and academic learning
- The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
- Careers in Educational Psychology
- United Kingdom description of educational psychologist
- References
Educational Management
Tutorials
Readings
Education is the process by which an individual is encouraged and enabled to fully develop his or her potential; it may also serve the purpose of equipping the individual with what is necessary to be a productive member of society. Through teaching and learning the individual acquires and develops knowledge and skills ( key skills).
The term education is often used to refer to formal education (see below). However, the word's broader meaning covers a range of experiences, from formal learning to the building of understanding and knowledge through day to day experiences. Ultimately, all that we experience serves as a form of education.
It is widely accepted that the process of education is lifelong. Studies have shown that the child is educated by the experiences it is exposed to in the womb even before it is born.
Individuals receive informal education from a variety of sources. Family members, peers, books and mass media have a strong influence on the informal education of the individual.
- Terminology
- Philosophy of education
- Psychology of education
- Academic disciplines
- Teaching
- Schooling
- Alternative education
- Technology
- Challenges
- Parental involvement
- Internationalization
- School
- Adult education
- Alternative education
- Alternative school
- Classical education
- Educational philosophies
- Educational technology
- Free school
- Gifted education
- Glossary of education-related terms
- History of education
- Interprofessional education
- Journalism education
- Legal education
- Lifelong Learning
- List of academic disciplines
- List of education articles by country
- List of education topics
- List of educators
- Medical education
- Over-education
- Public education
- Post Secondary Transition For High School Students with Disabilities
- Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
- School counselor
- Special education
- Spirituality Studies
- Tertiary education
- University
- Unschooling
- Vocational education
- References
Educational management is a field of study and practice concerned with the operation of educational organizations. The present author has argued consistently (Bush, 1986; Bush, 1995; Bush, 1999; Bush, 2003) that educational management has to be centrally concerned with the purpose or aims of education. These purposes or goals provide the crucial sense of direction to underpin the management of educational institutions.
Unless this link between purpose and management is clear and close, there is a danger of “managerialism . . . a stress on procedures at the expense of educational purpose and values” (Bush, 1999, p. 240). “Management possesses no super-ordinate goals or values of its own. The pursuit of efficiency may be the mission statement of management – but this is efficiency in the achievement of objectives which others define” (Newman & Clarke, 1994, p.29).
Curriculum Management
Tutorials
Readings
Curriculum has many different conceptions. It may include any educational experience. It may also be conceived as a conversation, relationships, and it is this phenomenon of plurality that is inherent in the new paradigm view of curriculum.
In the first published textbook on Curriculum in 1918, John Franklin Bobbitt noted that the idea of curriculum has its roots in the Latin word for a race-course, and explained curriculum as the course of deeds and experiences in which children become the adults that they should be, for success in adult society. He explained, further, that curriculum must be understood as encompassing not only those experiences that take place within schools, but the entire scope of formative experience both within and outside of schools. Further, this includes experiences that are not planned or directed, as well as experiences that are intentionally directed (in or out of school) for the purposeful formation of adult members of society. (See image at right.)
Bobbitt saw curriculum as an arena for social engineering. His formulation suffers from at least two serious problems: 1) He assumed that "scientific" experts would be qualified and justified in designing curricula based on expert knowledge of what qualities are desirable in adult members of society, and what experiences would produce those qualities; and (2) in his definition of curriculum as the experiences that someone ought to have in order to become the kind of adult that they ought to become, he was defining curriculum as an ideal, rather than as the reality of whatever course of experience in actuality forms people as they do actually take form.
Contemporary views of curriculum would reject these features of Bobbitt's formulation, but they retain the basic notion of curriculum as the course of experience in which human being takes form. Moreover, the formation of human being through curriculum is studied not only at the level of the individual person, but also at the level of groups, cultures, and societies (as, for example, in the formation of a profession or an academic discipline through the course of its historical experience). The formation of a group is seen as taking place reciprocally with the formation of its individual participants.
Although it appeared formally in Bobbitt's definition, the notion of curriculum as the course of formative experience is also pervasive in the work of John Dewey (who seriously disagreed with Bobbitt on important issues), in Dewey's work on education spanning decades before and after Bobbitt's work. Although this understanding of "curriculum" may be different from some common uses of the word, it continues to be shared as a common understanding among curriculum professionals and researchers who take conflicting positions on a variety of other issues.
- Curriculum in Formal Schooling
- List of examples of classes
- See also
- External
links
- Course Development
- Curriculum Theories
- Curriculum theory and practice
- The International Bureau of Education the UNESCO center specialized in curriculum development
- EuroCv (not for profit service)
- National Education Standards in the United States (book)
- National Education Standards...They're Back! (article)
- Diane Ravitch, National Standards in American Education A Citizen's Guide (book)
- World Council for Curriculum and Instruction
- Participatory Curriculum Development and Learner-Centered Education in Vietnam
Teaching Strategies
Tutorials
Readings
Teaching Business Studies
Tutorials
- The Study of Business, Government, and Society
- The Dynamic Environment
- Business Power
- Critics of Business
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Implementing Social Responsibility
- Business Ethics
- Making Ethical Decisions in Business
- Business in Politics
- Federal Regulation of Business
- Reforming Regulation
- Multinational Corporations and Trade
- Globalization
- Industrial Pollution and Environmental Policy
- Managing Environmental Quality
- Consumerism
- The Changing Workplace
- Civil Rights at Work
- Corporate Governance
Readings
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Business studies is an academic subject taught at higher level in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, as well as at university level in many countries. Its study combines elements of accountancy, finance, marketing, organizational studies and economics
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Teaching Chemistry
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Science, Maths & Technology
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Teaching Design & Technology
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Teaching Information and Communication Technology
Teaching
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Teaching Mathematics
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Framework for Teaching Mathematics
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Teaching Modern Languages
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Teaching Music
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Teaching Physics
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Teaching about Religion
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Educational Technology
Tutorials
Readings
Educational Technology is a creative blending of "idea" and "product" technologies with subject-matter content in order to engender and improve teaching and learning processes. Educational technology is often associated with the terms instructional technology or learning technology. "Product" technologies are tangible; for example, computer hardware or software. "Idea" technologies are cognitive frameworks or schemes; for example, the Multiple Intelligence Theory proposed by Howard Gardner. When products are thoughtfully blended with subject matter content (such as mathematics or science concepts) for a specific audience in a specific educational context (such as a school), one is using "educational technology."
The words educational and technology in the term educational technology have the general meaning. Educational technology is not restricted to the education of children, nor to the use of high technology. The particular case of the meaningful use of high-technology to enhance learning in K-12 classrooms and higher education is known as technology integration. Several universities have recently opened tracks for graduate programs in the field of Educational Technology.
- Instructional technology
- Instructional theory
- Learning theory (education)
- Educational psychology
- Educational research
- Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
- M-learning
- E-learning
- Flexible Learning
- Mind Map
- References
External links
- Further reading
- ALT: the Association for Learning Technology
- E-education
- Teaching Tip: Using PowerPoint to Promote Active Learning
Recommended Texts
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Business, Government, and Society: A Managerial Perspective, Text and Cases, 11/e ISBN:
0071116656,
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Educational Psychology (with MyLabSchool), 10/E Anita E. Woolfolk, Ohio State University Publisher:
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Learning,
Curriculum and Employability in Higher Education
By Peter Knight, Mantz Yorke
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Resources
- Economics Network
- Gold Dust Resources
- Inclusion Development Programme
- Introduction to Learning Management Systems
- Multiverse
- Online Learning and Teaching Materials
- Teacher Training Resource Bank
- Training and Development Agency for Schools
- TTRB Special Educational Needs
- Web
Links
Case Studies
