International trends in initial teacher education (ITE) and induction increasingly emphasise the importance of school-based learning for beginning teachers. This book focuses directly on what has been learned from within well-established partnerships about the nature of beginning teachers' learning in schools and explores the ways in which teacher educators - both those that are school-based and those in universities who work in partnership with them - can most effectively support that learning. The book opens with a number of authentic and engaging case studies of trainee teachers, which have been carefully chosen to prompt key questions, which the remainder of the book seeks to address, helping teacher educators to recognise the importance and complexity of the role they are undertaking, and equipping them with strong practical advice about how to cultivate in beginning teachers the kind of dispositions towards professional learning that outstanding teaching requires.
