The Professional Practice of Teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand,
7th Edition

Jane Abbiss, Martin Thrupp

The Professional Practice of Teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand
ISBN-13: 9780170463157
Copyright 2025 | Not Yet Published (2024-08-27)
480 pages | List Price: USD $81.50

The Professional Practice of Teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand contains a wealth of information that beginning and more experienced teachers need to know in order to learn to teach well. Written specifically for the New Zealand setting, it highlights a range of knowledges and skills that teachers require in order to make a positive difference to their students’ lives. Throughout the text many case studies, activities and stories from real-life teachers and students help readers to link the theory to their classroom practices. This wholly New Zealand text has been developed over many years to reflect the local educational environment. Examples from all levels of teaching ensure the text is relevant for teachers across a range of school settings.

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Part 1: Aotearoa New Zealand learners, curriculum and assessment: the big picture
1. Introduction - Becoming a Teacher
2. Identity, culture and effective pedagogy for Māori learners
3. Understanding Pacific learners
4. Understanding the curriculum and assessment landscape
5. Mātauranga Māori in English medium education
Part 2: Engaging with the detail of teaching and learning
6. How do people learn? Understanding the learning process
7. Early years education and learning
8. A community of learners: creating a culture of learning together
9. Engaging students in dialogue
10. Design for learning
11. Using classroom assessment for effective learning and teaching
12. Managing relationships in learning environments
13. Creating cultures of belonging: engaging diversity to enhance learning
14. Supporting learners at times of transition
15. Pedagogy in flexible learning spaces
16. Digital learning: critical perspectives and lifelong possibilities
17. Learning and teaching for a sustainable future
Part 3 Further reflections on the professional practice of teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand
18. Teaching as inquiry
19. Teachers and ethics
20. Raising our heads: keeping a critical eye on policy and research
21. Moving into the profession

  • Jane Abbiss

    Jane Abbiss is Associate Professor in Education at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, University of Canterbury, where she has worked since 2006. Previously, she was a lecturer in teacher education at Christchurch College of Education and a secondary school teacher. Jane’s research interests include teacher preparation, learner experience and identity, curriculum studies and social sciences education. Common threads that run through her research relate to the lived experiences of teachers and learners and relationships between policy and practice. She has led initial teacher education programme developments, coordinated an initial teacher education Masters programme, and taught across a range of courses in education and professional teacher preparation qualifications.

  • Martin Thrupp

    Martin Thrupp is Professor of Education at The University of Waikato where he has worked since 1995, apart from a six-year stint working in London. He teaches various papers about Aotearoa New Zealand society and education, mainly to teacher education students. Martin’s research interests are in education policy, especially the lived effects of policy across diverse primary and secondary schools and their communities. He has undertaken related educational research in New Zealand as well as in Europe, especially England, and has won several awards for research and publications. Martin's latest research is about privatisation trends within public education and he is also editing a book about Finland’s education system alongside several Finnish academics.

  • 6 NEW chapters

  • NEW part openers

  • NEW Instructor's Guide with case studies

  • NEW author - Jane Abbiss

  • NEW content - mātauranga (Māori knowledge)

  • NEW EoC summaries

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