This eBook edition of Quest Teacher Book 1 helps teachers to deliver an inspiring and diverse KS3 English curriculum with confidence. Building on what students have learned at KS2 and supporting them to progress to GCSE and beyond, this teacher book ensures that all students will develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Informed by up-to-date research, the teacher book provides in-depth chapter and unit guidance for Quest Student Book 1. It also includes a wealth of support to help develop independent and curious learners, including practical suggestions for embedding metacognitive strategies into English lessons, guidance on integrating hinterland knowledge into each unit, and suggestions for further reading to boost students' cultural capital.

This eBook edition of Quest Teacher Book 3 helps teachers to deliver an inspiring and diverse KS3 English curriculum with confidence. Building on what students have learned in Years 7 and 8, and supporting them to progress to GCSE and beyond, this teacher book ensures that all students will develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Informed by up-to-date research, the teacher book provides in-depth chapter and unit guidance for Quest Student Book 3. It also includes a wealth of support to help develop independent and curious learners, including practical suggestions for embedding metacognitive strategies into English lessons, guidance on integrating hinterland knowledge into each unit, and suggestions for further reading to boost students' cultural capital.

This eBook edition of Quest Teacher Book 2 helps teachers to deliver an inspiring and diverse KS3 English curriculum with confidence. Building on what students have learned in Year 7 and supporting them to progress to GCSE and beyond, this teacher book ensures that all students will develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Informed by up-to-date research, the teacher book provides in-depth chapter and unit guidance for Quest Student Book 2. It also includes a wealth of support to help develop independent and curious learners, including practical suggestions for embedding metacognitive strategies into English lessons, guidance on integrating hinterland knowledge into each unit, and suggestions for further reading to boost students' cultural capital.

My name is Brian L. Murphy. My first degree was in business management, which led to an eighteen-year career as an individual contributor, then as a supervisor, and then as a manager. I've now been a teacher for twenty years, experiencing the educational process from the inside, including being a mentor teacher for a dozen student teachers. I have loved being a teacher, but my industry is in trouble, even dying, and something needs to be done to repair the damage before it's too late. This book is meant to identify and take responsibility for what is going wrong so we can remedy the problems. As a teacher, I am deeply concerned, even frightened for the future of my industry, fearing that the vast majority of our students are being neglected and turning off, the teachers are quitting in droves, and the society itself is losing patience in a system they finance with their taxes.

This eBook edition of Quest Student Book 3 is designed to motivate and inspire Year 9 English students by providing a relevant and diverse learning experience. This textbook has been carefully structured to build on what students have learned in Year 7 and Year 8, while establishing a solid foundation of skills and knowledge for GCSE and beyond. Chapters based around 'big ideas' encourage debate, while introducing students to the core concepts central to the study of English language and literature. The eBook features high-quality texts from a diverse range of authors that will reflect and broaden students' experiences, along with activities that encourage students to develop their own identities as readers, writers and speakers, and vocabulary activities that help to address the word gap. Each unit is carefully sequenced, beginning with tasks that activate students' prior knowledge, introducing students to engaging and challenging concepts in an accessible, supported way, before concluding with a summative activity to ensure that students can put their newfound knowledge into practice.

This eBook edition of Quest 1 Student Book is designed to motivate and inspire Year 7 English students by providing a relevant and diverse learning experience. This textbook has been carefully structured to build on what students have learned at KS2, while establishing a solid foundation of skills and knowledge for GCSE and beyond. Chapters based around 'big ideas' encourage debate, while introducing students to the core concepts central to the study of English language and literature. The eBook features high-quality texts from a diverse range of authors that will reflect and broaden students' experiences, along with activities that encourage them to develop their own identities as readers, writers and speakers, and vocabulary activities that help to address the word gap. Each unit is carefully sequenced, beginning with tasks that activate students' prior knowledge, introducing students to engaging and challenging concepts in an accessible way, before concluding with a summative activity to ensure that students can put their newfound knowledge into practice. Quest Student Book 1 eBook will support independent learning, embed metacognitive strategies and inspire student curiosity.

This book explores how citizen teachers can expand our capacities to generate more equitable and just spaces with families by working as community organizers. Paying particular attention to community organizing work in one elementary school, the book weaves stories and examples with theoretical understandings to support emerging citizen teachers in creating more democratic spaces. Each chapter provides key community organizing concepts and skills and offers lessons learned to identify what worked and what did not. By building solidarity with families, citizen teachers can effectively activate more powerful practices grounded in the lives of students, their families, and their communities while articulating a broader response to the conditions impacting educators.

Utilizing a case study method and a Multiperspectival Approach, this volume presents a pioneering, in-depth study about China’s teacher education policy since the 1990s. It critically investigates the rational, dynamic and complex implementation process taking place at the micro institutional level for the transformations of teacher education institutions. The book first introduces the sociopolitical and cultural background of China’s teacher education system and its challenges under the condition of globalization, and illustrates major national initiatives for nurturing highly qualified teachers. It then explores new teachers’ identities in an era of enhanced professionalism, uncovers the ways they reflect China’s teacher education reform, and distills the rationales behind these policy actions. This is followed by an analytic presentation of the findings of the case study of a provincial normal university, with a particular focus on such core pieces of the implementation jigsaw as policy flow, the dynamism of implementation, sociopolitical and cultural confluence, and institutional barriers in the complex process. Lastly, the book unravels key recommendations and implications for policy implementation studies from the China policy case, and constructs a Chinese Zhong-Yong Model of policy implementation, and sheds new light on policy studies of teacher education reform in particular and public policy in general, which may be transferable to other sociopolitical contexts seeking to nurture world-class teachers and achieve educational excellence in a global age.