Schools and pre-schools

Create an inclusive classroom for all with this resource.

Language and communication are essential in the classroom: essential in children's learning, essential in teachers' communication with children, and essential in children's understanding of themselves and their world.

Das Buch vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen über das Spielen in der frühen Kindheit für Fachkräfte in der beruflichen pädagogischen Praxis, aber auch für Eltern, Studierende und für die wissenschaftliche Fachöffentlichkeit.

Der Sammelband befasst sich mit der Frage, wie die Potenziale von Ganztagsschulen ausgeschöpft werden können.

Die qualitative Studie untersucht die Vorstellungen von Lehrpersonen und Schüler*innen an zwei verschiedenen Schultypen und bietet damit einen bisweilen raren empirischen Einblick in den Status quo des Politikunterrichts in Österreich.

First published in 1981.

How do children relate to numbers and mathematics?

In this stimulating collection of specially commissioned essays, teachers and researchers in the forefront of thinking in this area consider both the controversies and the day-to-day realities of teaching primary English.

Author Gwen J.

Lesson planning is an essential component of every teacher's practice.

This book presents a guiding framework for designing and supporting participatory research with young children.

Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) involves children in school consciously assisting others to learn, and in so doing learning more effectively themselves.

The Early Years Curriculum brings together a range of curriculum models from across the world, providing in-depth discussion on key issues and theories, and enabling readers to consider each approach to children's learning within an international context.

Presents 100+ interventions using creative and expressive arts counseling techniques in school settingsExpressive arts therapies are a rich resource for use with children and adolescents, who are often unresponsive to traditional talk therapy, and highly useful to school counselors who must overcome cultural, language, and ability barriers that are increasingly present in diverse and multicultural school settings.

Take advantage of the appeal and power of Caldecott award literature to extend and promote learning across the curriculum.

Classroom-tested methods for boosting secondary students' writing skills The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day offers teachers, homeschoolers, and parents 180 ready-to-use, reproducible activities that enhance writing skills in secondary students.

This book is an exploration of story and its importance in early childhood.

Originally published in 1992.

In this book, Bergeron demonstrates the negative emotional and pedagogical repercussions that result from American educators' embrace of self-esteem and the dogma surrounding its acceptance.

This highly practical resource is designed to be used with children who need additional help in developing communication skills in Year 1.

The effective and fun-filled way to teach spelling to elementary students The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6.

InThose Kids, Our Schools, Shayla Reese Griffin examines patterns of racial interaction in a large, integrated high school and makes a powerful case for the frank conversations that educators could and should be having about race in schools.

This book examines how schooling-the restrictive, oppressive, and disciplinary force in much U.

A Practical Guide to Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary School offers straightforward advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary mathematics classroom.

This useful reference book offers authoritative yet accessible answers to common questions posed by new and trainee teachers as they face the practical everyday questions that arise from entering the classroom for the first time.

Guided Reading: Visualize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with 36 readers-six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers.

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words.

With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learningand the changing nature of literacy itselfin today's K12 classrooms.

This book expands on the 'Developing Thinking Players' model across a wide range of team and individual sports, to explain how coaches can help athletes to learn how to make better decisions during play and to think for themselves.

Give students exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum while teaching them important information skills!

Activities to help children learn ways to feel good about themselves and their bodies and develop important lifelong healthy habits.

The Joy of Not Knowing takes every aspect of the curriculum and of school life and transforms it into a personalised, meaningful and enjoyable experience for all.

An authoritative guide for improving teaching, learning, and literacy in content area classrooms This book introduces teachers to the Disciplinary Literacy instructional framework developed by the Institute for Learning, University of Pittsburgh.

Teachers are bombarded with advice about how to teach.

In this groundbreaking critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, an international cast of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars deftly analyze the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education.

This book provides an analysis of childrens play across many different cultural communities around the globe.

Centered around the idea that literacy teaching is more than the transmission of strategies and skills, this volume serves as a foundation for approaching literacy from an identity perspective.

Movement-play, put simply, is encouraging physical activity in a child-led manner for the benefit of children's health, learning and wellbeing.

Fachkräfte in der Kita benötigen medizinisches Grundwissen, denn Kinder sind gerade in jungen Jahren oft krank und verletzen sich leicht beim Spiel.

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current research on adult book reading to children.

Fachkräfte in Kita und Schule werden immer häufiger mit herausforderndem Verhalten von Kindern konfrontiert, die z.

Praise for the first edition: 'How well the author understands her subject.

Drawing on critical and sociocultural frameworks, this volume presents narrative studies by or about Latinas in which they speak up about issues of identity and education.

Anthony Laker leads an outstanding international team of educational theorists in critically examining the theoretical underpinnings of physical education, and in challenging the rhetoric, the practices and the pedagogies that prevail in our schools.

Can one be too young to play outside?

This hands-on book offers teachers a much-needed resource that will help maximize learning for English Language Learners (ELLs).

Offering contributions from international leaders in the field, this volume builds on empirically informed meta-analyses to foreground relationship-based aspects of parental involvement in children's education and learning.

This collection of simple to use, fun, multi-sensory games and creative lesson starters will jumpstart pupils enthusiasm for literacy learning.