Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Professional Behaviours
Colin Howard author Rachael Paige author Emma Hollis editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:17th Oct '22
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This title outlines the personal and professional skills and behaviours needed to be an effective early career teacher beyond that of your own subject knowledge and class-based practices.
It provides guidance on how to gain the most from mentoring conversations and how to develop good habits around workload and managing priorities. It helps you develop and understand the importance of engaging in self-reflection, professional development, building relationships and managing your well-being, encouraging you to consider your professional identity, values and motivators in order to become the best teacher you can be.
The Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers provide accessible, carefully researched, quick reads for early career teachers, covering the key topics you will encounter during your training year and first two years of teaching. They complement and are fully in line with the new Early Career Framework and are intended to assist ongoing professional development by bringing together current information and thinking on each area in one convenient place.
Colin Howard and Rachael Paige have captured the eagerness that early career teachers face. Alongside raising awareness of the excitement there is an openness about the challenges. The honesty of the authors helps to provide a quiet reassurance to the reader. Rachael Paige offers her wide experiences in education which is a real strength as it engages the reader and speaks to them in a gentle, supportive way. Whilst Colin Howard brings a wealth of experience from his roles as an educator, which reassures the early career teacher and supports them to feel welcomed into the teaching community.
In essence the authors have written an accessible book which reminds the early career teachers that as the next generation of teachers, they have a whole school and teaching community who are there to offer support, guidance and career development opportunities.
Dr Joy CarrollSenior Lecturer BA (HONS) Primary Initial Teacher Education, University of Worcester
This book fills an essential gap in the current offer of books for developing teachers. It is wonderful to see that the authors have chosen to give space to considering the individual teacher and how to develop themselves. Developing a strong teacher identity has a key role to play in sustaining good teaching. The approach to take in the style and structure and also the link to research will be key to supporting early career teachers on their long journey to sustaining their development...The punctuation of the chapters with case studies and practical tasks will support the reader through self-development. This book encourages a value-based approach to developing teachers which is a great counter-narrative to the current landscape and much needed. It should stand the test of time...
...The accessible and frank tone with which this book is written is a real strength. It is a must read for all ECTs and mentors alike.
Dr Pinky JainHead of Teacher Education in the Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University
ISBN: 9781915080165
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 170g
94 pages