Based on the author's experience of both teaching across Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 and delivering initial teacher education, this book provides comprehensive guidance on the essential theory and pedagogy that underpins language teaching, together with strategies and tools that can be easily implemented in the classroom.

Adopted by The Open University, this reader traces the development of school history up to and including the National Curriculum and takes a thorough look at the issues involved in teaching history today.

An examination of how high-quality history teaching and learning can be achieved in universities worldwide. The text draws on a wide range of international research as well as the reflections and experiences of university historians, linking theory and practice.

This book explored changing practice in history classrooms from the autonomy of the 1980s through the introduction of GCSEs and the National Curriculum to the prescription of the National Strategies and the pervasive influence of league tables in the first decade of the 21st century.

A guide to developing and using online resources in history teaching. It offers advice that helps the history teacher develop online assignments, and provides an introduction to the myriad resources and tools available for use in the online classroom.

The early years are increasingly recognised as a priority time for the education of children and language and literacy are key elements of any early childhood programme. This second edition provides an accessible text on the current research and thinking surrounding these areas.

Drawing on the author's own research, this text identifies what effective teachers know, understand and do which enable them to put effective teaching of literacy into practice in the primary school.