Training of Teaching Practice Supervisors - The Empirical Approach (Paperback)

The book, TRAINING OF TEACHING PRACTICE SUPERVISORS: The Empirical Approach, is about the supervision of teaching practice that is founded on empiricism and cognate experience in the field. Teaching Practice is crucial to the production of efficient and effective teachers; and skilful supervision of teaching practice is a sine qua non to achieving this. But skilful supervision of teaching practice does not seem to come fortuitously. The training programme for teaching practice supervisors that the book is based on has demonstrated that while existing courses on educational theory and practice may be adequate provision for efficient and effective teaching, they do not seem to provide, at the same time, for skilful supervision of teaching practice, in a way that is productive of optimum teaching practice outcomes of student-teachers. Thus the book is recommended to teacher educators, student-teachers, teachers in the field and anybody else genuinely interested in improving the quality of teaching and learning in educational systems.