Advising and supporting teachers /

Randall, Mick.

Advising and supporting teachers / Mick Randall and Barbara Thornton. - 224p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Cambridge teacher training and development . - Cambridge teacher training and development. .

Contexts: when and why advisors advise. Pre-service and in-service contexts. The issues. Pre-service contexts. In-service contexts. What's in a word? The terminology of advice -- Learning to teach. Theory vs practice in teacher education. The knowledge involved in teaching. Theoretical perspectives on the learning of skills. Approaches to training teachers -- The role of dialogue in learning to teach. Kolb's Experiential Learning and the practice cycle. The lesson: observation for development. The feedback session: theory into practice or practice into theory? Constructing new understandings: the Vygotskian perspective. The personal and the social; how they interact in practice. Theory, consciousness and language. The inner dialogue and continuing professional development. The teaching practice cycle: implementation problems -- Supervision and the three-stage model of helping. Styles of supervision: directive vs non-directive. Providing help: the overall frameworks. Counselling theories and the provision of advice. Different approaches to counselling. Problem-solving and Egan's eclectic model of counselling. The principles of the three-stage model and providing advice to teachers. Potential difficulties with the Egan model. The practice cycle and the three-stage model of helping -- Providing a framework: Six Category Intervention Analysis. Six Category Intervention Analysis. The six categories. Authoritative vs facilitative interventions. Different agendas and types of intervention. Degenerative interventions -- Ways of talking to teachers 1: creating the right atmosphere. Effective attending and listening. Active listening. Creating empathy. Supportive interventions -- Ways of talking to teachers 2: dealing with feelings. Anxiety and defensiveness. Dealing with anxiety and defensiveness. Being in touch with emotions -- Ways of talking to teachers 3: directing and learning. Prescriptive interventions. Informative interventions. Confronting interventions. Providing negative feedback in a non-punitive atmosphere. Providing action plans. Written feedback -- Ways of taking to teachers 4: towards critical self-awareness. Catalytic interventions. Critical incidents as catalytic interventions. Sequencing the interventions -- Putting it all together: personal and cultural factors. Introduction. Individual differences and feedback styles. Cultural influences. Different agendas in the feedback session. Ch. 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. Ch. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. Ch. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 3.8. Ch. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6. 4.7. 4.8. Ch. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. Ch. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. Ch. 7. 7.1. 7.2. 7.3. Ch. 8. 8.1. 8.2. 8.3. 8.4. 8.5. 8.6. Ch. 9. 9.1. 9.2. 9.3. Ch. 10. 10.1. 10.2. 10.3. 10.4.

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