Schools and pre-schools

Bringing together a mix of researchers and practitioners, With the Best of Intentions examines the major goals of recent philanthropic efforts and looks at some of the key lessons--for educators, philanthropists, policymakers, and community leaders--of philanthropic contributions to schools and school systems.

Why do so many pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9 'switch off' and make very little progress in the core subjects such as English and mathematics?

The Effective Teaching of Biology aims to identify the special dimensions of the subject, how it contributes to the curriculum as a whole and why the teaching of biology differs from the teaching of other subjects.

Teaching Middle Years has established itself as the leading text to focus on the adolescent years of schooling.

Hyper-socialised explores the challenges of late capitalist times for education systems, schools and teachers.

Speech Bubbles 1 is the first set in an exciting new series of picture books designed to be used by Speech Language Therapists/Pathologists, parents/caregivers, and teachers with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development, children receiving speech therapy, or by those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for their children.

This highly accessible guide to the varied aspects of Vygotsky's psychology emphasises his abiding interest in education.

Children's curiosity about their lives and worlds motivates many interests.

Mastering Primary Languages introduces the primary languages curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make language learning irresistible.

The National Science Foundation funded the first Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology initiative to look at systems that support collaborations in business and elsewhere.

This beautifully illustrated and sensitive fairy tale has been created for children experiencing feelings of anxiety.

Many teachers are trained to approach their work with a set of teaching strategies and lessons that changes little over time.

Forty evidenced-based strategies for integrating literacy instruction into the content areas Providing unique content on assessment, differentiated instruction, technology, and reflective practice, Developing Content Area Literacy, Second Edition is designed to help busy middle school and secondary teachers meet the challenge of addressing the literacy learning needs of all students, including English language learners.

Beginning to teach in a primary school means establishing a whole new set of relationships - with your class of course, but also with the other adults who work in the school.

In the past 15 years a host of critical thinking books have appeared that teach students to find flaws in the arguments of others by learning to detect a number of informal fallacies.

The book explores the evolving relationships between parents and children, the significance of the Jewish school in their lives, how young people think about religious practices, and their lives in the UK.

Every teacher wants to be outstanding.

In ihrem Handbuch zur Trauerbegleitung beschreiben Beate Alefeld-Gerges und Stephan Sigg, wie sich Trauer bei jungen Menschen in der Pubertät äußert, welche psychischen und körperlichen Reaktionen auftreten und wie Trauer und Trauma voneinander abzugrenzen sind.

Creativity for a New Curriculum: 5-11 provides an account of what creativity really means in the context of children's learning in the primary school, and describes in practical terms what teachers can do to foster it.

The Essential Guide to Secondary Teaching is the complete guidebook for the secondary school teacher.

This book looks at the challenges of restructuring services and working with people with different training and working practices.

This new edition of Teaching Secondary English is thoroughly revised, but its purpose has not changed.

Developmental Play Assessment for Practitioners (DPA-P) Guidebook and Training Website: Project Play offers a comprehensive assessment of naturally occurring play activities for evaluating young children's developmental progress accurately, so that useful interventions can take place as early as possible.

Many children have to cope with complicated and disruptive situations.

For effective and safe use, this book should be purchased alongside the professional guidebook.

There is no single best approach in teaching.

The Self-Regulated Learning Guide introduces K-12 teachers to the basics of self-regulation.

In this guide, educators and authors David Upegui and David E.

'Teaching Geography as if the Planet Matters provides a timely outline of powerful knowledge and arguments that will be needed to counter a strengthening of current curriculum orthodoxies.

This practical resource contains a wealth of valuable advice and tried-and-tested strategies for supporting children and young people with Down's Syndrome.

To understand childhood, you need to understand all of the social factors which surround it.

Offering practical guidance on encouraging creativity in early childhood settings, this much-needed book highlights the importance of the arts and creativity for children's learning, critical thinking, social interaction and self-regulation.

Empower children and prevent sexual abuse In today's world, it's crucial that we equip our children with the tools they need to stay safe.

This popular guide offers a wealth of innovative, research-based strategies for making K12 classrooms the best learning environments they can be.

Polyvagal Theory provides a breakdown of how the nervous system responds and reacts to unconscious messages of safety and threat.

This book is a practical guide to teaching drama and provides a clear and coherent framework together with a theoretical underpinning which will allow teachers to create their own drama lessons from an informed standpoint and maximize the learning potential.

Role-play is a fun and creative way to engage with children in EYFS, and is fundamental in developing children's learning and communication skills.

TEACH SECONDARY AWARDS FINALISTCurrently teachers don't receive the training or induction they need to make their school an LGBT+ inclusive environment.

This book is fluent and systematic.

Published in 1994.

Although the idea of the reflective practitioner is embraced by many, there is still a need to understand how teachers' practical experience and the theoretical insights of researchers can be linked in teacher education.

Research Into Translation and Training in Arab Academic Institutions provides insights into the current issues and challenges facing in-service and trainee Arabic translators and interpreters, both professionally and academically.

What is physical literacy?

By introducing a framework for culturally sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) praxis, Harman, Burke and other contributing authors guide readers through a practical and analytic exploration of youth participatory work in classroom and community settings.

Bringing different cultural perspectives on creativity with them, teachers and children in two early childhood education sites in Aotearoa New Zealand were using museum visits as jumping off places to hone their creative capacity building.

Today's secondary classrooms are increasingly diverse places and skilled English teachers need to be able to develop flexible teaching strategies that can be adapted to best serve diverse learners with divergent needs.

Public schools are among the most important institutions in North American communities, especially in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods.

This new edition of Circle Solutions for Student Wellbeing addresses critical and contemporary issues for students aged 5-18.