Includes references and appendices.

Contents: The school environment -- Learner diversity: developmental characteristics, needs and interests -- Focus on gender, needs, strengths, interests, experiences language, race, culture, religion, socio-economic status, difficult circumstances, and indigenous peoples -- Learner diversity: the community and home environment -- Creating an appropriate learning environment -- Classroom management and classroom routines -- Physical and personal aspects of classroom management -- Close encounter with the school curriculum -- Preparing for teaching and learning -- The instructional cycle -- Utilizing teaching-learning resources and ICT -- Assessment FOR learning and assessment AS learning (formative assessment) -- Assessment OF learning (summative assessment) -- The teacher as a person and as a professional -- Towards teacher quality: developing a glocal teacher of the 21st century -- On teacher's philosophy of education.

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