Primary and middle schools

Focusing on student analysis of primary sources, this book explores several proven analysis strategies to use with students, including methods from the Library of Congress, the Stanford History Education Group, and Harvard's Project Zero.

What's the Buzz?

What if you could challenge your fifth-grade students to investigate the role of composting in solid waste management?

An island is a world out of time and place, separated by literal and figurative oceans, where the confines of reality are tenuous and magic may be possible.

Teachers who want to cut lesson planning time should welcome this series.

The Really Useful Primary Design and Technology Book brings together essential subject knowledge and pedagogy to support and inspire those planning to teach D&T in the primary school.

This innovative book aims to support schools in shifting teaching and learning in primary science by changing teacher perceptions of where science should be taught.

All types of organisations have recognised the growing demand for open and flexible learning programmes.

Poetry - From Reading to Writing covers the process of writing poetry, from reading poems through to writing them.

What links Cinderella to Harry Potter?

Managing Stress in Secondary Schools: A Whole-School Approach for Staff and Students, second edition, introduces a practical stress management programme for use in schools and colleges.

This book provides guidance and insight into 'what mathematics leadership looks like in practice' and shows readers how they can develop from a confident teacher into a curriculum subject leader.

The book breaks new ground by placing 'outdoor learning' in a theoretical, historical and social context of changing understandings of children, childhood and the use of the outdoors.

Building Blocks for Learning Occupational Therapy Approaches is a resource book for educational staff and pediatric occupational therapists, especially those new to the field.

This book is the supporting guide for Speech Bubbles 1,the first set in an exciting new series of picture books designed to be used by Speech Language Therapists/Pathologists, parents/caregivers, and teachers with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development, children receiving speech therapy, or by those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for their children.

This study, first published in 1979, analyses the attitude of various income and occupational groups to elementary schools both before and after the introduction of compulsory school attendance.

This book delves into the complex history of the gardening movement in schools and examines the question why gardens should be built in schools.

There are many more children with learning differences and difficulties in our schools today.

An adjunct to the increased emphasis on developing students' critical thinking and higher order skills is the need for methods to monitor and evaluate these abilities.

Moving On Facilitator's Guide is designed to accompany the Leaving Well and Arriving Well activity books.

Part of The Essential SENCO Toolkit series, this invaluable resource offers practical ideas and materials to allow SENCOs and SEN practitioners to capture learning, demonstrate the impact of SEN support, and analyse whether provision is effectively tackling barriers to learning.

Teachers who want to cut lesson planning time should welcome this series, revised in line with the new literacy framework in the second edition.

The ultimate aim of reading is not the process but to understand what we read and comprehension can take place at many different levels.

Published in 1978, this is a concise and practical guide to the use of linguistic theory and analytical techniques in English language teaching at secondary and tertiary levels of education.

One of the key features of an outstanding lesson is that all learners make progress.

What is an Ally?

What if you could challenge your seventh graders to become informed citizens by analyzing real-world implications of GMOs?

Supporting and challenging cooperating teachers to grow in their mentoring and coaching practices with preservice teachers and also in their own work as classroom teachers, this practical guide presents and illustrates the Coaching with CARE model-a framework for reflection and action that helps cultivate a perspective on teaching that puts students at the center of teacher preparation and places value on apprenticeship and participation in learning.

Mastering Primary Music introduces the primary music curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make music learning irresistible.

Jumpstart!

School playtimes account for 20% of a child's school life, but how can schools ensure that this time is as beneficial as possible for primary school pupils?

International literacy assessments have provided ample data for ranking nations, charting growth, and casting blame.

This book addresses a significant gap in the research literature on transitions across the school years: the continuities and discontinuities in school literacy education and their implications for practice.

This book completes a scientific life trilogy of books following on from the Hows (i.

This book offers strategies for the transfer of knowledge through combining information technology and visual arts, and examining how to visually enhance and convey knowledge.

Enriching Vocabulary in Secondary Schools explores the importance of vocabulary for academic, social, emotional, and employment outcomes.

All About Autism is an accessible and informative guide for primary school teachers, designed to increase their knowledge and understanding of autism and enhance their toolkit with practical, adaptable strategies to support autistic children in their care.

33 Ways to Help with Spelling equips teachers and teaching assistants with a wide range of practical resources to help children who are having difficulties learning the basic skills of spelling.

In keeping with the authors' belief that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents a complete curriculum of word study for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development.

This resource supports Middle School Physical Education teachers in promoting healthy activity levels among their students, both in and outside the PE facilities.

Includes CD-RomOriginally developed for deaf children, this innovative and successful drama programme addressing personal, social and emotional needs can benefit all children in primary schools.

This is a much-needed book for educators who want to learn more than just the surface features of lesson study, to deepen the process and learning.

First published in 1986, Disruptive Pupil Management presents a comprehensive overview of the disruptive behaviour in schools in the light of the Elton Report.

Let's be realistic here.

Teaching assistants are an integral part of classroom life, yet pioneering research by the authors has shown schools are not making the most of this valued resource.

Debates in English Teaching explores the major issues all English teachers encounter daily in their professional lives.

Bring math to life with routines that are academically rigorous, standards-based, and engaging!

Responding to the rise in challenges to the mental health of young people, this book provides schoolteachers with the essential skills required to recognise emotional distress in their students, and more importantly, empowers them to make a genuine difference.

Children are born naturally mathematical, so why is it sometimes so difficult to observe children being mathematical?