Secondary schools

It is a new school year and you have a dilemma: on the one hand is a group of bubbly students wanting something original and new, and on the other is a stuffed specification and an impatient senior leader demanding greater 'value added' from the results.

'Reading the book made me wish I could start teaching all over again.

Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an approach to learning and teaching that aims to develop reasoning and judgement.

In this new and updated edition, Patrice Baldwin brings together key findings from brain research and best practice to highlight the benefits that drama and imagined experience can have on learning, creativity, motivation and self-esteem, and explains why and how drama supports learning.

Drama Education with Digital Technology explores the rapidly evolving intersections between drama, digital gaming, technology and teaching.

Drawing on a wealth of knowledge from a diverse group of contributors, this volume addresses the importance of going beyond equal opportunities.

Personalised learning is now widely regarded as a realistic and effective response to the diverse and fast-changing nature of life and work in the 21st century.

Contemporary education is held captive by an obsession with assessment.

In many Western societies there is concern that children from less advantaged social backgrounds have limited aspirations, and are disproportionately unlikely to go to university.

Gaining a better sense of how pupils conceive school geography is crucial if we are to understand the ways in which their ideas and values mediate learning processes.

Schools across the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a national curriculum with their desire to provide the wide, engaging and exciting curriculum that they know children need.

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

This comprehensive handbook provides art teachers with practical advice on
-planning effective lessons
-developing imaginative ideas for teaching art across the age ranges
-developing students' creative, technical and critical skills
-preparing students for coursework and exams
This book is a must for all secondary art and design teachers, whether still in training, newly qualified or experienced.

This comprehensive handbook combines up-to-date research - including Ofsted reports and pupil surveys - with road-tested classroom techniques to suggest how you can make your classroom a dynamic and productive learning environment.

Containing everything a new or improving geography teacher could wish to know, this book provides step-by-step guidance on creating outstanding learning opportunities that prepare students for life, as well as for success in their examinations.

Useful and resourceful - this book is ideal for trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers alike.

Designed to provide a complete guide for teachers of thinking skills, reasoning and critical thinking to 14-19 age groups, everything you could need to be a thinking teacher is packed into The Thinking Teacher's Toolkit, including: an introduction to what thinking skills are, why you are equipped to teach them and how you can apply your previous experience clear approaches to preparing to teach, whether you are a coordinator seeking guidance on setting up a thinking skills course from scratch, a thinking teacher putting together thought-provoking lesson plans or a subject teacher looking for ideas on integrating critical thinking skills across the curriculum; and advice on how to handle assessment, including information on a variety of qualifications available internationally.

Drama Education with Digital Technology explores the rapidly evolving intersections between drama, digital gaming, technology and teaching.

This highly controversial and compelling book exposes the government's city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been told in support of the academies project, and the disastrous effect it will have on Britain's schools.

In their witty and very practical book, Phil Beadle and John Murphy guide teachers through the dos and don'ts of behaviour management based on their decades of experience teaching in the most challenging schools.

Contemporary education is held captive by an obsession with assessment.

Looking for time saving, creative, ready-to-use activities to kick-start and round up your history lessons?

Gaining a better sense of how pupils conceive school geography is crucial if we are to understand the ways in which their ideas and values mediate learning processes.

Including animation in your classroom can:
• improve literacy and numeracy
• develop critical thinking, communication and problem-solving skills
• enhance teamwork and negotiation
• encourage creativity

This toolkit, together with an extensive companion website, will give you the confidence to use animation in your classroom.

Containing everything a new or improving geography teacher could wish to know, this book provides step-by-step guidance on creating outstanding learning opportunities that prepare students for life, as well as for success in their examinations.

This book provides geography teachers with 50 cohesive suggestions for embedding and extending learning in the classroom: from individual to whole-class activities, and from the energetic to the sedate.

This pick-and-mix treasure trove of advice is brimming with tried-and-tested strategies for managing behaviour in the secondary classroom.

With clear guidance and advice from the viewpoint of a seasoned teacher and trainer, Getting on Better with Teenagers explains how building a better rapport with your class can support students' academic, social and personal development, as well as improving behaviour issues.

All Mike's ideas have been tried and tested at the chalkface.

This book contains 70 ready-to-use mathematics lessons suitable for students aged 14-16.

This resource book is designed to engage students in the process of creative writing.

It's hard enough for teachers to fit all their marking, extra-curricular duties and training into their lives, let alone finding time to think up exciting new ways of delivering their subject to a mixed-ability class.

Everyone learns best when they are enjoying an activity - even adults prefer to learn through play!

This user-friendly handbook for busy teachers
contains up-to-date advice on a range of topics including: • Planning outstanding lessons • Teaching the four key language skills• Stretching able and talented students• Including and engaging students with weaker skills• Using ICT to advance language skills and build international links• Teaching modern languages at post 16 There is also a companion website containing links to useful resources and
websites.

Lesson planning and preparation is one of the most important aspects of teaching.

Lesson planning and preparation is one of the most important aspects of teaching.

Including animation in your classroom can:
• improve literacy and numeracy
• develop critical thinking, communication and problem-solving skills
• enhance teamwork and negotiation
• encourage creativity

This toolkit, together with an extensive companion website, will give you the confidence to use animation in your classroom.

Mathematics Education with Digital Technology examines ways in which widely available digital technologies can be used to benefit the teaching and learning of mathematics.

School has the potential to be a major source of personal and academic fulfillment.

Embarking on a teaching career is a bit like setting off on an exciting car journey.

MasterClass in Drama Education explores drama teaching, drawing directly on international research and practice, presenting effective and engaging approaches for drama learning and focusing on the skills, knowledge and understanding needed by researchers teachers and Master's-level students.

Depression is experienced in epidemic proportions in many Western societies.

Looking for time saving, creative, ready-to-use activities to kick-start and round up your history lessons?

How can teachers deal with the growing pastoral needs of pupils aged 11-16 in schools?

Want to get boys excited about poetry?