The Teaching Life: Professional Learning and Career Progression

Covering the latest developments in professional learning, Kate Jones andRobin Macpherson explore the massive changes that the global pandemichas brought, seeing it as a paradigm shift with manifest opportunities.The corollary to this is career progression, which is really about making theright professional choices. Are you a one school person for your whole timein teaching? Do you change location or role? Do you harbour leadershipambitions? And crucially, how do you finish your careeron a high?

Working out what you want to achieve in your teaching life is a corefocus of the book, and is addressed through a range of interviews, casestudies, and challenge questions. It is not about telling you what to do butprompting you to reflect on what you do.The Teaching Life is for anyonewho wants to make the most of their time in education, for their studentsand for themselves.