Teaching skills and techniques

This practical guide considers the research evidence that is needed to inform enlightened practice, and offers concrete suggestions and teaching approaches for early years settings and classrooms.

Phonics: Practice, Research and Policy unravels the controversy surrounding phonics which currently characterises much of the discussion about reading standards and teaching reading.

'The text is clear and accessible and gives a fascinating overview of how drawing can help children to learn and understand the thinking of others.

'[This book] is a helpful edition to a field where there is a limited amount of good literature to support teachers dealing with second language acquisition in the classroom' - ESCalate`Gregory's book is an important and timely contribution to the literature on literacy, biliteracy, second language learning and early childhood education, synthesizing cutting-edge research, perspectives and teaching approaches in a clear and accessible way.

`The book is at once accessible, evidence-based, practical and eminently readable.

Includes CD-Rom Why are visual approaches to literacy important?

This book offers a nuanced and research-based, critical account of the current status of Chinese education at differing levels within China, in the context of its position on the global economic and political stage.

This book critically evaluates the dynamic landscape of teacher education on a global scale, delving into its recent advancements, innovations, and emerging paradigms.

'What is cooperative learning?

Sam - a young and enthusiastic trainee teacher - asked the class, 'What is the difference between 7 and 6?

Why is it that so many pupils are put off by maths, seeing it as uninspiring and irrelevant, and that so many choose to drop it as soon as they can?

`Too afraid to have a go at oral storytelling in the classroom?

'The aim of this book is to support schools in using the internet effectively.

'This book is special.

Includes CD-Rom'Intriguing and timely.

Includes Online Resources 'The author puts into perspective the importance of teaching thinking and learning skills providing clear explanations and easy to follow activities that can be used as a series of lessons, or simply as a one off.

Writing development is currently the focus of substantial international debate because it is the aspect of literacy education that has been least responsive to central government and state reforms.

Includes CD-RomFor many teachers, gender issues related to role models, image and expectations have an effect upon the behaviour and achievement of both boys and girls, often to their disadvantage.

For many teachers, gender issues related to role models, image and expectations have an effect upon the behaviour and achievement of both boys and girls, often to their disadvantage.

Includes CD-RomTimes Educational Supplement Star Read!

'This book provides a variety of ideas for use in the classroom, based on practical applications of the conceptual understanding of learning power.

'It is scarcely possible to imagine a truly educated person who cannot read well.

'The book fulfils its purpose admirably.

'In Case Study 5 (a grassroots 'Children's Mathematics Network group') the initiative supported the participants in their professional change by giving them a space for the detailed and joint consideration of children's mathematical thinking.

'This book will be a welcome, practical addition to the repertoires of teachers of children aged 7-11 who are looking for inspiration and relevance in their teaching of writing skills' - Speaking English`For the drama novice, this is the book to buy.

'All the ideas look easy to use and quick to prepare.

'Nick Pratt's book looks in detail at the real meaning of teaching mathematics interactively in primary schools.

`I found this a fascinating book to read, I could identify with my time at school when I would often write with my paper almost in at right angles to my body because I found this comfortable, and the teacher's insistence that the paper be "e;straight"e; in front of me.

`Laurie Makin's and Marian Whitehead's book on How to Develop Children's Literacy stands out from the usual guides on child development and learning.

`Potential readers will want to know why they should buy this rather than any of the other books currently available about teaching secondary English.

This book focuses on how to understand reading processes and what it means to develop reading comprehension.

Put Google Classroom to work while teaching your students and make your life easierKey Features[*] This is the first book to guide educators step by step through teaching with Google Classroom[*] It s focused on you, your students, and providing great learning experiences easily[*] It s easy to follow, with everything you need to get started and keep going even if you re not a technology fanBook DescriptionGoogle Classroom helps teachers bring their work online.

'Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom achieves the rare goal of explicating multimodality as both theory and practice.

Researching Language in Schools and Communities is designed for those who intend to carry out and / or study research in children's language development, teaching English as a second language, children's literature, casual conversation, social class and language variation, classroom discourse, reading processes, teaching writing, literacy and curriculum area learning, critical literacies and related areas.

Written in a non-threatening and nontechnical style, this guide examines both the pitfalls and the opportunities of Internet use in schools.

This study promotes a model of education which is collaborative and non-hierarchical.

Beginning in 2000, all teachers must register with the GTC annually and pay an annual fee.

This introduction to meditation in education is written as a resource for class teachers and educators as a practical guide.

Language is a child's major tool for learning about the world.

Issues concerning the supply of teachers are of perennial concern to both policy-makers and researchers in the world of education.

This definitive resource covers every aspect of teaching in higher education.

It is acknowledged that effective schools involve parents effectively.

A rounded, comprehensive, guide to issues of practice, pedagogy and policy concerned with creative education.

Dealing with parents is often harder than dealing with the pupils themselves.

How do teachers and parents of children with autism address a child's social skills?

Despite - or because - we live in calculative and instrumental times in higher education, liberal arts colleges and programmes are flourishing.

Packed with practical teaching strategies, Making Every Lesson Count bridges the gapbetween research findings and classroompractice.

In an age where young people seem to have a natural affinity with smartphones, computer games and social media, teachers and lecturers face a big challenge - or a golden opportunity.

Teaching is an art; with the right techniques, guidance, skills and practice, teachers can masterfully face any situation the classroom could throw at them.