Reflective Teaching: Evidence-informed Professional Practice

by Andrew Pollard

Reflective Teaching is the definitive textbook for reflective classroom professionalism. It offers exceptional support for trainee teachers, mentors, newly qualified teachers and for those engaged in continuing professional development and performance review.


Andrew Pollard's Reflective Teaching has been established for over twenty years. Each edition builds on that foundation and offers something new. This edition is enhanced


* A new a larger format, fresh text design, children's photographs and additional illustrations making the book more attractive and user-friendly than ever before.

* New content to reflect contemporary innovations such as Personalized Learning, Assessment for Learning, Pupil Consultation and Every Child Matters.

* Updates throughout in line with new teaching Standards and Competences in each part of the UK.

* Advanced material to respond to the introduction of Master's Level study within many PGCE courses, the growth in evidence-informed professional practice and more coherent continuing professional development.

* Research Briefings from the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) - the UK's largest ever coordinated initiative on educational research.

Reflective Teaching is the most comprehensive, evidence-informed handbook on teaching, and remains, as ever, both practical and accessible.


‘This book and its associated resources have extremely serious intentions and contemporary relevance. We wish to support the continuing development of high-quality professionals who can enhance pupil attainment, and we also want to support new teachers in understanding the contexts in which they work and the significance of what they do.' Andrew Pollard


Reflective Teaching is part of a set of integrated and complementary

* Reflective Teaching - the core handbook for school-based professional development.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction

608 pages, Paperback

First published May 8, 2008

Reviews

[Sabeena · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know and be *doing* as a reflective practitioner. It is written with evidence-based strategy in mind so it also provides links to key research around particular themes, whilst also offering helpful examples for lines of enquiry you could realistically follow. This has been the main difference between this book and others which only tell you what you ought to be doing but offer no guidance with respect to how that should look in practice particularly if you are at the ITE, probationary, or NQT stages.
The book also covers the English, Scottish and Welsh contexts for ease of reference, which is useful no matter what context applies to you, so you can see how things compare across the board.
It is a huge book, with over 600 pages so it is more of a companion text than a one-time read. You would do well to own a copy and use it to refer back to trusting that all the major themes you need to be well-versed in are contained in the book from curriculum planning to assessment through to professional development as a newly qualified teacher.
Overall I felt the advice is sound and clearly from curriculum experts in the area. Coverage of peripheral areas and aspects too is skilfully achieved considering sometimes it can be hard to weave philosophy authentically into accounts of practical classroom management.
My only bug would be regarding the formatting of the physical book; it is very difficult to read the extremely small and tightly-packed text. If the *layout* (not organisation) is given more thought this could improve, for example by spacing out and increasing the font size to make it more hard copy reader-friendly.

[Maddie Murphy]

If o had to read it I am putting it toward my reading goal😆

[Steve Morris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Perhaps of most use to student teachers or probationary teachers.