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Teaching 3-8: Meeting the Standards for Initial Teacher Training and Inductionreviewed 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 Search for book at Amazon.com 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.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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