This book should adorn every staffroom in the land, being used as a means of support, continuing professional development, ideas plus references to further research and reading. * UK Ed Magazine *
Pollard et. al. remains a key text on our courses. This book's reflective characteristics and exercises are vital education tools in allowing our students to increase understandings of their specific professional practice within wider teaching and learning issues. * Richard Race, Senior Lecturer in Education, Roehampton University, UK *
Any school determined to take seriously their teachers' initial training, continuing education and intellectual well-being cannot afford to be without a theoretical and practical guide. Building on Andrew Pollard's lifetime insights into what it means to be a reflective teacher, this is the best there could be. * Sir Tim Brighouse, first Chief Adviser, London Challenge, UK *
In response to the radical upheavals in teacher education in England, Andrew Pollard has prepared a completely new version of his classic work on reflective teaching. Like its predecessors, it will be a major resource for all those who wish to maintain teaching as a values-based profession. * Ian Menter, President, British Education Research Association, UK *
This new version of Reflective Teaching in Schools should be essential reading for every prospective teacher and their mentors. An ideal resource for inspiring excellence. * Dame Alison Peacock, Headteacher of Wroxham Teaching School and the Transformative Learning Alliance, Hertfordshire, UK *
An excellent manual on classroom practice, Reflective Teaching in Schools offers teachers definitive advice based on sound and highly relevant academic research. * Tony Finn, Honorary Professor of Teacher Education and Professionalism at the University of Glasgow, UK and Interim Chair of the Board of the Scottish College for Educational Leadership, UK *
Comprehensive, thoughtful and insightful, this book provides a wise and stimulating springboard for the development of excellent teaching. * Chris Husbands, Director, Institute of Education, University of London, UK *
At a time when the teaching profession is experiencing so much challenge and change, this practical handbook provides an invaluable tool to help stimulate and sustain individual and collaborative reflection on the repetoire of attributes, skills and values that inform the art, the craft, the science and the vocation of teaching as a critically important profession. * Carmel Gallagher, Registrar, General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland *
A really grounded update - on the pulse and grounded in research. -- Cara Broadhurst, University of Reading, UK

Andrew Pollard is Professor of Education and supports educational research at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK, and the University of Bristol, UK. He taught for ten years before becoming a teacher educator and researcher. He was Director of the UK-wide Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) and advised the government on the National Curriculum Review.