TAE – Teacher Training

Packed with advice, ideas and staff development activities, this practical book provides everything you need to manage difficult behaviour and create a positive learning environment in Further Education settings.

Providing a clear framework, guidelines for instructional planning, real-world examples, and cutting-edge ideas, this book fills the need for intrinsically motivating instruction targeted specifically toward adults returning to school.

1986 Winner of the Imogene Okes Award and the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education. This book analyzes current approaches to adult learning and presents a comprehensive review of the research on how adults learn.

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes?

Explores how high- performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. An in-depth look at the policies and practices surrounding teaching quality in NSW and Victoria. 

This book is not about increasing your power as a teacher -- it is about the dynamics of power in the adult classroom, challenging power structures, and the techniques teachers can use to empower learners.

Explains the concept of constructive alignment used in implementing outcomes-based education.

This handbook provides a learner-centred approach for those who work with students with mental health difficulties.

Presents a series of well-argued essays about the ethical considerations that should be addressed in teacher training and educational policies and practices.

Offers practical teaching and classroom management suggestions that are designed for anyone who works with adult learners.

Analyses models of classroom behaviour management, with examples of theory critiquing practice and practice criticizing theory.

Addresses the multiple aims/means structure in educational processes of learning.