Australia Monash University Pre-service Education and Professional Development John Loughran Director, Australia. Monash University Faculty of Education Peninsula School of Education Jeffrey Northfield Professor and Head of School Opening The Classroom Door

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This account tracks the return to teaching of John Loughran, a teacher educator and educational researcher. After years of educating student teachers, he went back into the classroom for a year to practice what he himself had been teaching, but was often met with difficult pupil behaviour and unforeseen problems. Split into three sections, this book covers: * a teacher's perspective on teaching* the students' perspective on teaching and learning* learning from experience - the implications for teaching and learning. Using Loughran's extensive teaching experience, this book describes how the classroom situations were played out and lessons to be learned.