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'A manifesto for change in education with collaboration, openness and optimism at its core.

Offering fresh alternatives to common instructional practices that fail to get results, this accessible, highly practical guide highlights ways to motivate middle school students while enhancing content-area learning.

As the presence of computers in the primary classroom increases and IT becomes a bigger part of learning, the book takes a realistic look at the role of the computer in the National Curriculum, and asks some important questions.

Also available to purchase as part of the Thought Bubbles set, offering four stories and a practitioner guidebook [978-0-367-61274-0]Johan, Hana, Ratheena and Sami have found some magical wellington boots.

Teaching is a delightfully rewarding, wonderfully enlightening and diverse career.

Word Aware 3 is a comprehensive, practical and engaging resource that focuses on teaching vocabulary and word learning skills to children aged 6 to 11 years who have vocabulary learning needs.

How applied linguistics knowledge informs literacy policy, curriculum and pedagogy in primary schools, making literacy teaching more efficient and effective.

The second edition of this popular book includes a new 'charting your progress' feature for more focused coverage of assessment and more examples of writing for a digital audience.

This practical guide invites teachers to take a journey towards masterly mathematics teaching using the experiences and lessons learnt across five Chinese provinces, Anhui, Beijing, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Tianjin.

Schools that want to be world class are now paying attention to the findings from neuroscience and psychology that tell us we can build better brains.

'This book is clear, approachable, and true.

This book enables teachers to develop a complete range of basic investigations for science with students aged five to 11 years.

From leading experts, this indispensable resource presents a practical model for conducting reading assessments for screening, diagnosis, and progress monitoring in each of the three tiers of response to intervention (RTI).

Through the real-life stories of women leaders in education, drawn from across the #WomenEd community, this book offers guidance and inspiration on how to rise above challenging situations and find personal and professional growth.

The popular image, derived from Piaget, of the child as a solitary thinker struggling to construct a personal understanding of the mathematical and logical properties of the physical world has given way in recent years to a view of children's learning and thinking as embedded in social relationships.

A Critique of Pure Teaching Methods and the Case of Synthetic Phonics examines how research into the effectiveness of teaching methods can and should relate to what takes place in the classroom.

This book features lots of easy-to-introduce activities and techniques that will propel satisfactory and good lessons into the outstanding category - not just when being observed, but all the time.

The perfect guide to accompany your teacher training journey.

These engaging activities focus upon the word level strand of the literacy stategy, in particular the vocabulary extention element.

Bring myths and legends alive in your classroom.

In any area of the curriculum, children need to learn concepts, facts and skills through first-hand experience.

There is a myth that English spelling is unnecessarily complex, and it is spread by those who don't understand the writing system.

Spoken Language is a key component of the primary national curriculum and is fundamental to children's language development and learning.

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

These 50 tales take just minutes to read but amply illustrate scientific principles and the evolution of science through history.

This book provides a significant contribution to conversations about teacher quality and graduate readiness for teaching.

Responding to recent reform efforts, such as the Next Generation Science Standards, which call for students to learn science practices, this book proposes a conceptual reframing of the roles of teachers and students in formal and informal science learning settings.

Talkabout for Children: Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Esteem is a bestselling professional workbook supporting educators and therapists who deliver social and relationship skills groups for children with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.

This seminal handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the research on world language education and how that research can transform into effective and daily instructional practices for K-16 language teachers.

This novel, edited volume looks at a previously under-researched area of language teacher agency and identity by exploring the experience of novice pre- and in-service teachers for whom English is a second language and presents research gathered from Asia, Europe, South America, and the US to bring underrepresented voices to the fore.

This is an essential text for all primary trainees, covering the fundamental issues for learning and teaching in primary schools today.

This book has two purposes: To open up the debate on the role of informal education in schooling systems and to suggest the kind of school organizational environment that can best facilitate the recognition of informal learning.

Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession.

Now in its second edition, Teaching and Learning through Reflective Practice is a practical guide to enable all those involved in educational activities to learn through the practices of reflection.

The second volume in this Early Childhood Education in the 21st Century: International Teaching, Family and Policy Perspectives miniseries focuses on teacher and family perspectives of early childhood education and care from 19 different countries around the world.

Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents' rights.

This important book is the result of a study of school curriculum undertaken by a joint committee of the University of Toronto and the Board of Education for the City of Toronto.

The Visualiser Handbook explores how live modelling can be used to break down the barrier between the expert and the student by inviting them to take part in the teacher's thinking process and learn how to do it themselves.

This book examines the development of play skills and schemas to support children with learning differences and physical disabilities in learning to play.

Today's world presents children with a wide-range of challenges that can hinder their personal and academic development.

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.

Computer-Assisted Instruction at Stanford, 1966-68: Data, Models, and Evaluation of the Arithmetic Programs provides an analysis and assessment of the arithmetic programs in computer-assisted instruction at Stanford for the years 1966-68.

Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in an urban elementary school, this volume is an examination of how school division politics, regional economic policies, parental concerns, urban development efforts, popular cultures, gender ideologies, racial politics, and university and corporate agendas come together to produce educational effects.

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!

Early childhood educators are responsible for the health and safety of the children they care for.

Oracy is a subject currently undergoing examination, due to the emphasis placed upon it by the National Curriculum.

Many English language learners (ELLs) require extra support to become successful writers.

Redefining More Able Education is an essential, up to date and challenging introduction to the many factors involved in teaching more able students.