Primary and middle schools

This book is an essential guide to teaching the Primary English curriculum, offering guidance on how to teach the subject, as well as covering the theory and subject knowledge that underpins it.

This book challenges traditional beliefs and practices of teaching 'written' mathematics in early childhood.

This book tells the story of how one primary school community worked to build a learning environment that is inclusive, humane and enabling for everybody, a place free from the damaging effects of fixed ability thinking and practices.

Moving On to Key Stage 1 has been highly influential in developing innovative, developmentally appropriate KS1 practice in schools across the country.

This book explores the foundations of modern primary education and the role that society and culture has had in shaping it.

CREATIVE ACTIVITIES AND CURRICULUM FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, Twelfth Edition, is written for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of creative and aesthetic development, the importance of arts experiences in childhood, supporting creativity in children, expanding creative approaches to teaching and integrating creativity across the curriculum.

The Teaching of Instrumental Music, Sixth Edition, introduces music education majors to basic instrumental pedagogy for the instruments and ensembles commonly found in the elementary and secondary curricula.

Now revised and expanded Speaking Frames: How to Teaching Talk for Writing: Ages 10-14 brings together material from Sue Palmer's popular Speaking Frames books with additional material covering the primary/secondary transition.

Making Music in the Primary School is an essential guide for all student and practising primary school teachers, instrumental teachers and community musicians involved in music with children.

This book uniquely describes the work of two Early Years Professionals, drawing on their narrative accounts as they robustly describe and analyse their work with young children.

How teachers view the nature of scientific knowledge is crucial to their understanding of science content and how it can be taught.

Adventure Stories for Reading, Learning and Literacy takes a unique approach to cross-curricular teaching in the primary classroom.

Now in an updated second edition How to Teach Writing Across the Curriculum: Ages 6-8 provides a range of practical suggestions for teaching non-fiction writing skills and linking them to children's learning across the entire curriculum.

How can you make gymnastics activity fun, lively and inclusive?

Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide.

A Guide to Teaching Practice is the major standard text for all students on initial teacher training courses in the UK.

Maths Homework for Key Stage 2 is a unique resource for busy teachers - a selection of 'pencil-free', hands-on activities that teachers can use as extension activities or give to pupils as homework to do with members of their family or friends.

Poor literacy skills have been shown to have profound effect on the life chances of children and young people.

Amongst the challenges that elementary teachers may often face as they introduce their students to science is the need to maintain a solid understanding of the many scientific concepts and details themselves.

Children's everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness.

This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "e;new times"e; - prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to understand different perspectives to participate in an increasingly diverse, multicultural global society.

Being able to read is one of the most important skills in life and something we all want our children to achieve - for learning and for pleasure.

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

The Courage to Grow: Leading with Intentionality shows educational leaders how to design and carry out a leadership professional development plan.

iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers.

The Little Green Money Machine: Kids in Business Around the World offers content, ideas, and exercises to lay the foundation for kids to create and run their own business or fundraiser!

Grandpa:This short book was coaxed out of my head by grandkids who wanted to hear some stories.

Teaching and Learning in the Intermediate Multiage Classroom describes in practical detail a creative and effective teaching practice in multiage elementary classrooms, one that integrates challenging academics with personalized teaching and learning.

From the 1950s to the digital age, Americans have pushed their children to live science-minded lives, cementing scientific discovery and youthful curiosity as inseparable ideals.

In this fun Japanese children's book, kids will learn to create haiku--elegant and simplistic Japanese poems.

Gender bias is well established in children by age 6, so creating environments where all children can learn without bias requires an understanding of the components of gender bias and the related challenges.

WHAT WORKS!

This book outlines cooperative small-group discovery (CSGD) theory and practical learning strategies for implementing it in secondary and collegiate classrooms.

This book outlines cooperative small-group discovery (CSGD) theory and practical learning strategies for implementing it in secondary and collegiate classrooms.

At a time when America's schools face many of the most difficult challenges ever, the authors of Leading for Democracy: A Case-Based Approach to Principal Preparation return the reader to an agenda for democratic leadership for schools.

According to the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, nearly half of teachers leave the profession after five years.

Raising African American Males is comprised of strategies and interventions that can assist and improve African American males' achievement in all areas of academics as well as in their everyday lives.

Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve compares the academic achievements of students in the United States to those of students in other countries.

This edited volume combines reflections, methods, and experiences from a globally diverse group of scholars to investigate the meaning, value, and effectiveness of the pedagogy of the Community of Philosophical Enquiry (CoPE) - derived from or in conversation with Lipman and Sharp's Philosophy for Children (P4C) - in the context of civic education.

100 ready-to-use projects to challenge and inspire your third-, fourth- and fifth-graders!

A huge collection of ready-to-use number talks that make math concepts easier for students to learn.

Discussions with school children aged 5-11 reveal that there is still a degree of uncertainty amongst students about whether it is ok to ask questions about autism.

An educational resource to help children explore the issue of fair trade by allowing them to see through the eyes of the children of banana farmers in the Windward Islands.

For professionals who work with students on the autism spectrum in inclusive classroom settings, supporting emotional regulation is key.

One of the keys to a happy and creative classroom is getting out of it and this book will give you the confidence to do just that.

TEACH SECONDARY AWARDS FINALISTCurrently teachers don't receive the training or induction they need to make their school an LGBT+ inclusive environment.

Packed with fun, creative and multi-sensory activities, this resource will help children and teenagers with dyslexia become successful learners across the curriculum.

Written by experienced clinicians, this book provides an exploration of how educators can easily use Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) to help vulnerable pupils to thrive.

In this lively, student-centered work, Dr.

Access 100+ effective, practical, and fun vocabulary exercises that take 20 minutes or less.