Department: Master of Education
Module Description: Teacher professional growth and development is an essential component to guarantee teacher effectiveness. Key perspectives, concepts and approaches to teacher professional development are critically evaluated. Approaches to reflection, professional development planning, implementation, evaluation of impact on learners’ achievement and action research and issues related to these are critically examined across a wide range of contexts. The module draws on wide range of sources including research, case studies and grey literature from professional and organisational sources.
Brookfield, S.D. (2017). Becoming a critically reflective teacher. Jossey-Bass.
Gordon, B. (2020). The joyful teacher: strategies for becoming the teacher every student deserves. Heinemann.
Vanderlinde, R., Smith, K. and Murray, J. (eds). (2021). Teacher educators and their professional development : learning from the past, looking to the future. London: Routledge.
Bolton, G.E. and Delderfield, R. (2018). Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional development. SAGE.
Creemers, B., Kyriakides, L. and Antoniou, P. (2012). Teacher professional development for improving quality of teaching. Netherlands, Springer.
Farias, R.S., & Araujo, A.M.P. (2018). Teacher professional development: Field of knowledge rise. Creative Education, vol. 9(5), 658-674.
Heller, J. I., Dahler, K. R., Wong, N., Shinohara, M. and Miratrix, L. W. (2012). Differential effects of three professional development models on teacher knowledge and student achievement in elementary science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 49(3), pp. 333–362. Request item
Jensen, B., Sonnemann, J. Roberts-Hull, K. & Hunter, A. (2016). Beyond PD: teacher professional learning in high-performing systems. Washington, DC: National Center on Education and the Economy.
Petty, G. (2014). Teaching today: a practical guide. 5th ed. Nelson Thornes. 4th edition available
Timperley, H. (2008). Teacher professional learning and development. Brussels: International Academy of Education. Open resource