Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Development

by Cheng, Yin Cheong; Mok, Magdalena Mo Ching; Tsui, Kwok Tung

• ISBN13: 9789629490591
• ISBN10: 9629490595
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book aims at making contributions to the ongoing policy debates in education reform and the creation of a new knowledge base that can serve all endeavours at different levels for teaching effectiveness and teacher development in different parts of the world. The target audiences are teacher educators, educators, graduate students, researchers, policy makers and those interested to reform education and teacher education for the new century. This edited volume includes 19 chapters grouped into three sections: Research and Analysis of Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Development; The Teacher as a Professional in a Changing Context; and Innovations and Trends in Teacher Development. The authors of these chapters are experienced and renowned scholars and researchers from different parts of the world. They present to the international readers a very wide range of perspectives, approaches, and research findings that are crucial to our pursuit of a new knowledge base for effective teaching and teacher development in the new millennium.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART I Introduction
Towards a New Knowledge Base for Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Development	3	(24)
PART II Research and Analysis of Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Development
Teacher Effectiveness in the New Century: Research for Development and Practice	27	(30)
Yin Cheong Cheng
A Framework of Total Teacher Effectiveness	57	(28)
Yin Cheong Cheng
Kwok Tung Tsui
The Effective Teacher: What Changes and Remains	85	(26)
Bert P. M. Creemers
In-service Education Ladder for Teachers for the New Millenium	111	(30)
King Chee Pang
Teacher Development and Change: An Evlutionary Perspective	141	(24)
Sally Johnson
Martin Monk
Julian Swain
Teachers' Practical Theories: Implications for Teacher Development	165	(18)
Perc Marland
A Model of Teachers Development: Social, Subject Knowledge, Pedagogical, and Cognitive	183	(34)
Yen Ling Li
PART III The Teacher as a Professional in a Changing Context
Children Managing Teachers: Implication for Teacher Education	217	(22)
Lorraine Ritchie
Building the Culture of Lesson Observation: Hong Kong and Guangzhou in Comparsion	239	(36)
Angelina Sin Yee Law
Developing Remedial Support in Hong Kong Secondary Schools	275	(22)
Kuen Fung Sin
Career Decision-making in Teaching: Does Classroom Work Satisfy Teachers?	297	(20)
Janet Draper
Prospective Primary School Teachers' Conception of a Professional Teacher	317	(30)
Jocelyn Pik Lin Choi
PART IV Innovations and Trends in Teacher Development
Information and Communication Technologies for Education and Teacher Development in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues and Challenges	347	(24)
Ian Birch
Rupert Maclean
Effectiveness Indicators of Teacher Utilization	371	(36)
Somwung Pitiyanuwat
Nonglak Wiratchai
Teacher Education and Teaching in Singapore: Into the New Century	407	(24)
Saravanan Gopinathan
Wah Kam Ho
Jason Tan
Towards Achieving High Quality Pre-service Teacher Training in Korea	431	(22)
Hye Sook Kim
Improving Teacher Education by Chartering a School of Education	453	(26)
Anne L. Hafner
Simeon Slovacek
Teacher and School Improvement through Partnership: The Queensland's Experience	479	(20)
Graeme Hall
Improving Teaching Performance through Peer Collaboration and Video Observation	499
James Michael Perren