Teaching skills and techniques

With the advent of desktop publishing systems and user-friendly computer software, there is an increasing trend for educators and trainers to produce their own instructional material.

Postgraduate research has undergone unprecedented change in the past ten years, in response to major shifts in the role of the university and the disciplines in knowledge production and the management of intellectual work.

The Newly Qualified Teacher's Handbook is an essential companion for all new teachers.

First Published in 1998.

Unique in its field, the Encyclopedia of Primary Education brings together a wide-ranging body of information relating to current educational practice in a single indispensable volume.

Developing children's writing abilities boosts their confidence, creates enjoyment and relevance in the task and cultivates a range of decision-making and problem-solving skills that can then be applied across the curriculum.

Developing children's writing abilities boosts their confidence, creates enjoyment and relevance in the task and cultivates a range of decision-making and problem-solving skills that can then be applied across the curriculum.

Increasing numbers of children attending pre school provision have led to increasing referrals to the advisory services for behavioural issues.

This practical book gives you all the ideas you need to make drama a regular and integral part of your school's curriculum, offering detailed suggestions of drama work for ages four to seven.

Being able to read is one of the most important skills in life and something we all want our children to achieve - for learning and for pleasure.

'I would highly recommend the skills, expertise and delivery that Cath can bring to a school and can guarantee that any school following her advice will not regret it.

Over the past three decades, our conceptualizations of literacy and what it means to be literate have expanded to include recognition that there is a qualitative difference in how we communicate through modalities such as the visual, audio, spatial, and linguistic and that different modes are combined in complex ways to make meaning.

Globally, universities are the subject of public debate and disagreement about their private benefits or public good, and the key policy vehicle for driving human capital development for competitive knowledge economies.

Globally, universities are the subject of public debate and disagreement about their private benefits or public good, and the key policy vehicle for driving human capital development for competitive knowledge economies.

Today's children spend more time than ever before watching television, playing computer games and reading comic and pulp fiction.

Today's children spend more time than ever before watching television, playing computer games and reading comic and pulp fiction.

Expert Teachers is a compelling book that explores issues surrounding the concept of the expert teacher from a truly international perspective.

Expert Teachers is a compelling book that explores issues surrounding the concept of the expert teacher from a truly international perspective.

This handbook offers a compilation of background information, techniques and scenarios based on the Acting Out programme that offers theatre skills/counselling for groups of adolescents, free of charge.

Mobile Learning in Schools explores the potential for using mobile devices in diverse school and college settings around the globe.

Using 15 case studies, this book highlights the attempts being made by teachers and other professionals to meet the varied needs of pupils in mainstream and special schools.

This analysis of Australian schooling relates international sociological research to the actual experiences of teachers in the classroom, and sets those experiences in the wider context of the Australian school system and of the socioeconomic conditions which shape children before they even enter school.

This analysis of Australian schooling relates international sociological research to the actual experiences of teachers in the classroom, and sets those experiences in the wider context of the Australian school system and of the socioeconomic conditions which shape children before they even enter school.

Aimed at professional tutors, this text explains the role of managing student teachers in secondary school settings.

This book explores current trends in assessment, with particular reference to secondary schools as well as providing a background to theory and practice relevant to both new and established teachers.

As a teacher, how can I increase my personal effectiveness, and how can I improve the quality of relationships in the classroom?

As a teacher, how can I increase my personal effectiveness, and how can I improve the quality of relationships in the classroom?

Getting to the heart of primary education: six contrasting studies of teachers, teaching, learning and classroom discourse, all set in a historical frame.

Art has always been an important part of the primary school experience.

Joan Dean offers sound practical guidance to advisers and inspectors at all levels.

Non-verbal skills are invaluable for teachers in getting their own messages across to classes and understanding the messages pupils are sending them.

This book originated from an awareness of the persistent lack of knowledge supporting a more respectful reception and approach to the youngest in our changing societies.

This book originated from an awareness of the persistent lack of knowledge supporting a more respectful reception and approach to the youngest in our changing societies.

This latest new edition of Effective Classroom Management is written for new teachers and those who train and guide them.

The Leverhulme Primary Project reported here provides for the first time evidence on what is actually happening in teacher education today and on how novice teachers learn their craft.

For more than twenty years, topic work has been accepted as the natural way to teach young children in their first years of school.

For more than twenty years, topic work has been accepted as the natural way to teach young children in their first years of school.

This very practical book offers advice for teachers.

This module explores the purposes of and methods for teaching second language writing.

This module explores the purposes of and methods for teaching second language writing.

When working with children, an understanding of the social interactions and relationships which influence emotional growth and learning is essential.

When working with children, an understanding of the social interactions and relationships which influence emotional growth and learning is essential.

First published in 1995.

This sourcebook offers a unique summary into all that was important in primary education during the 1990s.

This comprehensive collection of essays provides a series of highly practical guidelines which schools can implement themselves.

First Published in 2004.

First Published in 2004.

Online learning has become an increasing presence in higher education course design, with most courses combining physical real time engagement with asynchronous learning activity.

Distance education is practised in all parts of the world and in recent years, its scope has developed enormously and rapidly.

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.