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Teaching 3-8: Meeting the Standards for Initial Teacher Training and Induction

reviewed by Vincent Costanza - 2005

Title: Teaching 3-8: Meeting the Standards for Initial Teacher Training and Induction
Author(s): Mark O'Hara
Publisher: Continuum, New York
ISBN: 082647005X, Pages: 224, Year: 2004
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As this is a review of a second edition book, it is appropriate to consider any changes from the previous edition.� This edition reflects updates that have been made to the 2002 edition, Standards for Initial Teacher Training and Induction.� The standards are used to determine whether a newly qualified teacher in the UK has completed his induction period satisfactorily.� These updated standards, which serve as a basis for professional development, are applied to trainees and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) of children ages 3-8 in this book.� In keeping with the organization of the Standards document, O�Hara arranges the chapters of this book in the same fashion, accordingly: Professional Values and Practice, Knowledge and Understanding, and Teaching.� The author aims to couch the book within the broad domain of teacher professionalism.� Such a domain has relevancy in the U.S. given recent debates concerning teacher quality and the prominence of teacher professional standards.� With teacher professionalism in mind, O�Hara states in the preface that �Teachers need to be reflective... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 107 Number 2, 2005, p. 288-291
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11394, Date Accessed: 9/18/2019 9:58:41 AM

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