The Teaching Improvement Agenda: What Matters and How Teaching Excellence Is Achieved

Drawing on ten years of research into whole-of-school teaching improvement, this engaging text explains what teaching improvement requires, how it is achieved, and how to maintain it in your classroom and school.

Based on studies involving real schools and real teachers, The Teaching Improvement Agenda is focused on what really matters for teachers and leaders in today’s schools. The book begins with an examination of the education field to identify the fundamental elements which inform and generate teaching improvement. This lays the foundations for an instructive set of innovative, research-informed strategies which have been designed to empower the teacher and school leader to improve teaching across the whole school. The book closes with a series of case studies that demonstrate these approaches in action.

Answering the 'what?' and 'how?' questions of teaching improvement, this book is an essential guide for school leaders and teachers, as well as instructors and students in initial teacher education.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The case for change

1. The teaching transformation agenda: An introduction
2. A new world challenging schools and teachers
3. Education systems in crisis
4. What does it mean to be “educated?

Part 2: Prefiguring changes to teaching, schooling and teacher education

5. A rethink of the school curriculum

6. Exploring the concept of teaching transformation

7. A new school teaching logic

Part 3: Designing a new paradigm for teaching and schooling

8. New concepts for a transformation of school teaching

9. Prefiguring a new grammar of schooling

10. An expanded focus for schools

11. Preparing a new teacher construct for a new grammar of schooling

12. A transformational teacher education program

Part 4: Conclusions

13. What’s been done before and what can we learn from it?

14. The teaching transformation agenda