Schools and pre-schools

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.

Whether you see a preschooler laughing or crying, hugging or tugging on a playmate, taking risks or seeking comfort from an adult, you know that they are developing their emotional skills and growing up in so many ways every day.

Offering a sociocultural approach to education and learning, this fascinating exploration of childhood provides an in-depth understanding of how children make sense of the world and the people in it.

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

How did the Allies use statistical analysis to reduce the number of plane crashes in WWII?

Forest School continues to grow and develop, both in the UK and internationally.

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

Nurturing Young Thinkers Across the Standards: K-2 provides multiple practical resources to assist teachers in working with standards across subject areas in ways that bring critical thinking into the everyday process of learning content and skills.

This reader-friendly text examines the key foundational studies in early literacy.

A Therapist's Guide to Adolescent Development is a practical guide to understanding adolescent development and applying that knowledge in therapeutic practice.

How should we understand children's creativity?

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

* What have we learned after three decades of research into school effectiveness?

Many students find the leap between school and university level mathematics to be significantly greater than they expected.

This book explains how the concepts of geography can teach young people to think geographically, deeply and ethically.

Working in the early years can be challenging, but to be outstanding in the early years can be even more difficult.

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

Jam-packed with inspiring lessons and ideas, this book will help you access and enhance your own creativity in the classroom and inspire your students to become motivated language learners.

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.

The preparation of social studies teachers is crucial not only to the project of good education, but, even more broadly, to the cultivation of a healthy democracy and the growth of a nation's citizens.

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.

It has been argued for some time that to improve language learning in Britain we need to start earlier, as many other European countries do.

Since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) children's rights have assumed a central position in a wide variety of disciplines and policies.

This book discusses principals' prerequisites and work within the five Nordic countries and focuses on schools as formal institutions that carry out functions delegated to them by the social collective.

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.

Laurie Kocher is a Faculty member in the Department of Early Childhood Care and Education, Capilano University, Canada.

This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food.

This resource offers a groundbreaking effort to make mathematics education research on ratios and proportions readily accessible and understandable to preservice and in-service teachers of grades 6 to 8.

`This book is useful for students and lecturers of early childhood.

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.

This book discusses the importance of teaching fundamental economic concepts as part of the middle school social science curriculum in India.

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.

Kinder sind nicht einfach nur "kleine Erwachsene".

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.

The term quality is frequently used in early years practice - both in professional discussions and in key policy and literature - but often without question or an agreed understanding of what quality is and as though it is an entirely unproblematic concept.

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.

Supporting student wellbeing is an absolute must if you are to develop high-achieving, well-rounded learners.

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.

Young children are better able to cope with their ever-changing world, overcome obstacles, and grow into emotionally healthy adults if they are provided opportunities to build their self-awareness and confidence.

Die bildnerisch-ästhetische Praxis in der KiTa zielt einerseits auf den taktilen, visuellen und sensomotorischen Zugang zur Welt, auf sinnliche Erfahrungen als Ausgangspunkt von Bildung und Entwicklung der Kinder.

Vor dem Hintergrund spezifischer Anforderungen im Feld der Tanzkunst wird aus einer praxeologischen Perspektive in den Blick genommen, wie junge Tänzer*innen eben diese bewältigen und wie sich biographische Prozesse des Tänzer*in-Werdens vollziehen.

This book examines the evolving role played by the social studies classroom in shaping national identity and contributing to Orientalism, which depicts the peoples of the Middle East as "e;the Other"e; relative to those of the United States and Europe.