Masterliness in the Teaching Profession

Abstract

1. Introduction: Masterliness in the teaching profession: global issues and local developments Linda la Velle 2. The place of community in professional development: a study of newly qualified teachers and newly appointed heads of department engaged in the Masters in Teaching and Learning Hazel Bryan and Jillian Blunden 3. Education of Finnish student teachers for purposeful teaching Kirsi Tirri and Martin Ubani 4. Teacher development through the Masters in Teaching and Learning: a lost opportunity Karen Castle, Gillian Peiser and Elizabeth Smith 5. Reclaiming the ground of master's education for teachers: lessons to be learned from a case study of the East Midlands Masters in Teaching and Learning Mary Bailey and Pete Sorensen 6. Alternatives to a master's degree as the new gold standard in teaching: a narrative inquiry of global citizenship teacher education in Japan and Canada Edward R. Howe 7. Catching the sparks: an evaluation of the early development of a novel master's degree in teaching and learning Nicholas Sorensen and Linda la Velle 8. Masterly preparation: embedding clinical practice in a graduate preservice teacher education programme Larissa McLean Davies, Melody Anderson, Jan Deans, Stephen Dinham, Patrick Griffin, Barbara Kameniar, Jane Page, Catherine Reid, Field Rickards, Collette Tayler and Debra Tyler 9. Coaching of staff in schools: what can we learn from the new role of the Masters in Teaching and Learning in-school coach for schools and the higher education tutors working alongside them? Julie Anderson and Cath Gristy 10. Criticality and the practice-based MA: an argument drawn from teaching on the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) Roy Goddard and Mark Payne