Primary and middle schools

A thorough examination of the characteristics` belonging to a high-performing school, this book is written by the Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust and the education advisor to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

John Taylor jumpstarts pupil and teacher enthusiasm for ICT learning with this refreshing range of simple to use activities, games and creative lesson starters.

John Taylor jumpstarts pupil and teacher enthusiasm for ICT learning with this refreshing range of simple to use activities, games and creative lesson starters.

Learning through Talk is a practical handbook.

Learning through Talk is a practical handbook.

Thirty Three Ways to Help with Reading equips teachers and teaching assistants with a wide range of practical resources to help children who are having difficulties learning the basic skills of reading.

Thirty Three Ways to Help with Reading equips teachers and teaching assistants with a wide range of practical resources to help children who are having difficulties learning the basic skills of reading.

This highly practical resource book presents ways in which teachers can help to develop children's problem-solving and thinking skills through a range of exciting science topics.

This highly practical resource book presents ways in which teachers can help to develop children's problem-solving and thinking skills through a range of exciting science topics.

Engage pupils' interest and imagination with these thirty-six stand-alone lesson plans.

Engage pupils' interest and imagination with these thirty-six stand-alone lesson plans.

This text models for teachers how to help children learn and write by establishing comfort with writing, building confidence, and developing competence.

This text models for teachers how to help children learn and write by establishing comfort with writing, building confidence, and developing competence.

A workbook for Thought & Knowledge, Fourth Edition by Diane F Halpern, Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking, Fourth Edition is filled with new exercises to reinforce learning and practice newly acquired skills.

A workbook for Thought & Knowledge, Fourth Edition by Diane F Halpern, Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking, Fourth Edition is filled with new exercises to reinforce learning and practice newly acquired skills.

First Published in 2005.

First Published in 2005.

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

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

First Published in 2005.

First Published in 2005.

First Published in 2005.

First Published in 2005.

How do you make mathematics relevant and exciting to young children?

How do you make mathematics relevant and exciting to young children?

How does classroom observation support your professional development?

First Published in 2005.

First Published in 2005.

Young children are intuitive, emergent scientists - they observe, raise hypotheses, experiment and notice patterns.

Young children are intuitive, emergent scientists - they observe, raise hypotheses, experiment and notice patterns.

Here Comes the Bogeyman is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for children.

Here Comes the Bogeyman is an essential text focussing on critical and contemporary issues surrounding writing for children.

This book offers an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics tailored to the teaching and research needs of K-8 educators.

This book offers an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics tailored to the teaching and research needs of K-8 educators.

Starting from the question 'what is a story?

Starting from the question 'what is a story?

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form.

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form.

Why is assessment so important in the teaching-learning process?

Why is assessment so important in the teaching-learning process?

Just Imagine is an exciting, unique and versatile resource that provides teachers with practical and stimulating creative writing activities for fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural perspectives.

This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural perspectives.

Companion volume to the award-winning best seller Instructional Design Theories and Models, this book serves as a concrete introduction to instructional design for curriculum developers, teachers and teacher trainers, and students.

Companion volume to the award-winning best seller Instructional Design Theories and Models, this book serves as a concrete introduction to instructional design for curriculum developers, teachers and teacher trainers, and students.

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.

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.

How can adults in Early Years settings and primary schools fully embrace the diverse nature of family life of the children they are working with?

This is a study of the nature of the process whereby children go about the business of learning to read.

How children learn to read well and what kind of teaching helps them is a scarcely penetrated mystery.