Teaching skills and techniques

The Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

The Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Making the Most of Your Teaching Assistant is an essential handbook for every SENCo and teacher responsible for managing Teaching Assistants.

First published in 1994.

First Published in 1985.

Since the publication of the first edition, Organising Learning in the Primary School Classroom has been recognised as an indispensable guide for primary school teachers in their quest for more effective practice in the classroom.

First Published in 2004.

A new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplaceLearning to Talk Shop explores the phrasebooks and guides to conversations that flooded the marketplace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, making a virtual classroom available to an audience who could not afford or did not have access to formal education.

The integration of children with special needs into mainstream schools demands a reorganisation of staff and support levels both in schools and in the advisory services.

This handbook provides all those teaching in higher and further education with a reference on how to develop and use a "e;toolkit"e; which is capable of exploring and assessing all the relevant aspects of their students' learning.

This is the second of a two-volume publication which provides an international perspective on how children learn to read.

This is the second of a two-volume publication which provides an international perspective on how children learn to read.

The intention of this book is to develop an increased awareness of the place of professional practice in the realms of research in teaching.

Part of the well-known Staff and Educational Development Series, this practice oriented book brings together leading research and evaluation approaches and supporting case studies from leading educational researchers and innovative teachers.

Lecturing can be a terror, a chore or an exhilarating experience.

Lecturing can be a terror, a chore or an exhilarating experience.

This is a book on the good practice of mentoring written by scholars and practitioners in education, health and industry.

Since 1989 initial teacher training courses in England and Wales have included teacher preparation for taking a lead in a school subject area in their first appointment.

First published in 1995.

This book examines factors surrounding the partnership between school-based training and mentoring in Physical Education.

This text discusses the theory and practice of several important areas of cross-curricular work in primary schools.

The current emphasis on individualised intervention programmes for students with special needs may not only be impractical, but also undesirable.

Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for co- ordinating a subject area within their primary school.

Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for co- ordinating a subject area within their primary school.

First Published in 2004.

In recent years there has been a massive revival of interest internationally in what story can offer to education.

Litigation and alleged cases of educational malpractice are on the rise.

The uses of technology in education have kindled great interest in recent years.

This volume is an extended case study of a hypothetical school district--its residential communities, a middle school and secondary school, its students, teachers, administrators, parents and board members.

Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book.

This book defines literacy broadly as it explores concepts within core subjects and shows how to make standards-based literacy the goal and outcome of school reform.

This book advocates the use of case methods to promote democratic teaching and learning.

Addresses the question of how to provide for your employees' needs in training and education when they are located on the other side of the globe.

Addresses the question of how to provide for your employees' needs in training and education when they are located on the other side of the globe.

The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) held its 7th Annual Conference in 1997 with a theme of Daring to Educate for Equity and Excellence: A Multicultural and Bilingual Mandate for the 21st Century.

Network Science, A Decade Later--the result of NSF-funded research that looked at the experiences of a set of science projects which use the Internet--offers an understanding of how the Internet can be used effectively by science teachers and students to support inquiry-based teaching and learning.

This text for preservice and in-service teacher education courses shows how schools can educate girls and promote their positive self-esteem at the same time.

This book surveys the history of basic writing scholarship, suggesting that we cannot adequately theorize the situations of basic writers unless we examine how they construct their own conceptions of their identities, their constructions of their relationships to social forces, and their representations of their relationships to written work.

This popular text describes the processes of doing teacher action research.

This work occupies a unique place amongst the array of books addressing the inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms.

This CIERA sponsored book is based on the premise that high-quality texts of all kinds are essential to good teaching in elementary classrooms.

In the author's words: "e;This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world.

In the author's words: "e;This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world.

This book is about the past and future of research on the effectiveness of learning networks (also known as "e;e-learning"e; or "e;online learning"e; or "e;Web-based learning"e;).

This book is about the past and future of research on the effectiveness of learning networks (also known as "e;e-learning"e; or "e;online learning"e; or "e;Web-based learning"e;).

This book documents the "e;brave new world"e; of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the United States in recent years.

This book documents the "e;brave new world"e; of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the United States in recent years.

The acquisition and maintenance of literacy is of pressing interest and concern to educators and educational policy makers worldwide.

In an era characterized by the rapid evolution of the concept of literacy, the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts focuses on multiple ways in which learners gain access to knowledge and skills.

This book locates dialogic pedagogy within the history of TESOL approaches and methods in which the communicative approach has been the dominant paradigm.