Teachers enter the profession with high expectations, a vision of the future, and a mission to educate our children and youth. The demands, pressures, and conditions they work under can stifle this zeal and present obstacles to achieving their mission. This leads to disillusionment and eventually even burnout.
The benefits of the book would be to: 1) raise the consciousness level within the teacher education profession by having educators who are highly respected by their colleagues come forth and present their case; 2) present a well-conceived and clearly articulated statement of their case; 3) provide a vision of what an appropriate role of colleges and universities may look like in a bestcase scenario, to provide a framework for institutions to review their programs and engage in introspection regarding their practices, relevance, and outcomes; 4) pull together the respected leadership in the profession and engage them in a common cause for the common good. To open up dialogue regarding the nature of the involvement in the enterprise, as well as delineation of future steps that need to be taken as part of a broader plan of action; and 5) present for the role of the university the intellectual contribution it makes to creating a profession. Through this, Dr Roth believed, ‘We would be modeling exactly what we are proposing.’
It is fashionable to say that teaching can be the most rewarding profession there is – and it can be. We can all give examples of the pleasure of helping a child grow in knowledge and understanding, and achieve their potential. But what about the teacher? They shouldn’t be excluded from the benefits of lifelong learning because of their workload and desire to give, give, give. Growth and change are part of all our personal and professional lives, and teachers need to embrace them; not just to do a better job, but to enjoy doing it. Supporting teachers in their development – trainees, newly or recently qualified, in their first three, ten or twenty years, and whether they’re superb or struggling – is vital in improving the quality of teaching and learning in our schools.
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Of all teachers, professors think least about what they do in classrooms, and in general, teach worst. And yet they are the models for all instructors, the teachers of teachers. For this book I sought out more professors than teachers at other levels because I wanted to demonstrate that their position doesn't necessarily prevent them from being enablers, too.
Differential and integral equations involve important mathematical techniques, and as such will be encountered by mathematicians, and physical and social scientists, in their undergraduate courses. This text provides a clear, comprehensive guide to first- and second-order ordinary and partial differential equations, whilst introducing important and useful basic material on integral equations. Readers will encounter detailed discussion of the wave, heat and Laplace equations, of Green's functions and their application to the Sturm-Liouville equation, and how to use series solutions, transform methods and phase-plane analysis. The calculus of variations will take them further into the world of applied analysis.
