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Mindset for Success: In your classroom and school
Paperback,
25/04/2017,
£18.99
£17.09
In A Mindset for Success: In Your Classroom and School, Tony Swainston analyses how the ways in which schools currently conceptualise and measure success could be limiting students' potential to achieve it.
Case for Coaching: Making Evidence-based Decisions
Paperback,
01/06/2006,
£34.14
£30.73
Coaching is an expensive development option and it isn't appropriate in every circumstance. This book aims to tell you when it's effective and when it's not. It tells you what the benefits are for the individual and what they are for the organisation. It also tells you what you need to do to make it work and what not to do.
Primary Professional Studies Reflective Reader
Paperback,
20/09/2005,
£15.00
£13.50
Reflective Readers take a new approach to providing trainee teachers with challenging and topical theory in a structure which will underpin their reflective learning and practice.
Education Debate
Paperback,
18/01/2008,
£12.99
£11.69
Guides readers through the flood of government initiatives and policies, including beacon Schools, the academies programme, parental choice, foundation schools, faith schools and teaching standards.
Pupil Friendly Individual Education Plans
Paperback,
01/01/2003,
£18.99
£17.09
The Code of Practice (2001) makes it clear that pupils should be involved in planning their targets from an early age. This book gives practical tips and guidance for writing the IEPs with examples and case histories.
Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up
Hardback,
23/04/2015,
£18.99
£17.09
Setting a practical vision for how education can be transformed to enable all young people to flourish and succeed, this book argues for an end of the industrial systems of mass schooling and proposes an organic approach that draws on unprecedented and professional resources to engage all students and develop their individual abilities and more.
What does this look like in the classroom: Bridging the gap between research and practice
Paperback,
11/09/2017,
£18.00
£16.20
In this thorough, enlightening and comprehensive book, Carl Hendrick and Robin Macpherson ask 18 of today's leading educational thinkers to distill the most up-to-date research into effective classroom practice in 10 of the most important areas of teaching.
Getting Promoted
Paperback,
20/03/2004,
£7.99
£7.19
More money and more respect are commonly shared goals. This pithy guide shows the teacher how to shine at work, how to write CVs and perform well in interviews, in order to gain their well-deserved promotion.
Cross-Curricular Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Paperback,
14/09/2009,
£27.99
£25.19
Cross-curricular teaching and learning are the new buzz-words in primary classrooms. This book focuses on history and geography to explore different contexts and strategies for making links between the full range of primary subjects, so that learning can be more integrated and relevant to learners.
How Not to Teach
Paperback,
09/10/2006,
£18.99
£17.09
Mr Read survives the nightmare of planning, Ofsted and an incompetent head... He also takes the class to Ireland, the House of Commons and wins a film award. This guide is useful for teachers.
99 Classroom Calamities ... and How to Avoid Them
Paperback,
09/11/2006,
£15.99
£14.39
How would you cope with a wasp in the classroom, organising a field trip or difficult relationships with colleagues? This book looks at what it can be like to be a teacher as a person, not just another cog in the education machine. It looks to the personal side, and asks real teachers how they feel about their profession.
Dos and Don'ts of Behaviour Management 2ed
Paperback,
15/01/2009,
£15.99
£14.39
A practical guide for those who need advice of managing behaviour. Containing advice on various aspects of behaviour management, it covers problems such as managing 'problem' pupils and dealing with a classroom 'riot'. It also covers avoiding confrontation and the use of humour, empathy and common sense.
Breaking Through Barriers to Boys' Achievement: Developing a Caring Masculinity
Paperback,
01/02/2013,
£24.99
£22.49
Secondary Starters and Plenaries: Ready-to-use activities for teaching any subject
Paperback,
14/03/2013,
£12.99
£11.69
Looking for time saving, creative, ready-to-use activities to kick-start and round up your lessons? Look no further!
Teaching Children to Listen: A practical approach to developing children's listening skills
Paperback,
25/04/2013,
£19.99
£17.99
Teacher: Mastering the Art and Craft of Teaching
Paperback,
31/05/2012,
£18.99
£17.09
Offers a fresh approach to professional development that focuses on building an individual teaching personality, rather than following a rule book. This book includes case studies and anecdotes, summaries and humorous illustrations to help teachers reflect on what it means to be a teacher, and why it is the most rewarding profession there is.
How to Survive Your First Year in Teaching
Paperback,
23/05/2013,
£18.99
£17.09
The new edition of this bestselling title provides a wealth of new and updated material, new diagrams and a companion website.
Why are You Shouting at Us?
Paperback,
17/01/2013,
£16.99
£15.29
Preparing to work in a tough school can be a nerve-wracking experience. Will there be gangs? What if none of the students do their homework? How will you know what to do if faced with a physical threat? In this book, the authors set out the 7 keys to successful behaviour management, through innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
Transforming Teacher Education: Reconfiguring the Academic Work
Paperback,
26/02/2015,
£28.99
£26.09
Pocket PAL: Multiple Intelligences
Paperback,
19/06/2014,
£8.99
£8.09
Packed with ready-to-use activities to get you started, this fully updated book provides a pocket-sized selection of ideas that will help you to infuse Multiple Intelligences into everyday teaching. The practical teaching strategies covered have been tailored to encourage awareness and use of MI in the classroom at both primary and secondary level.
Mark. Plan. Teach.: Save time. Reduce workload. Impact learning.
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
£12.99
£11.69
40 lessons to get children thinking: Philosophical thought adventures across the curriculum
Paperback,
22/10/2015,
£16.99
£15.29
Towards Successful Learning 2ed
Paperback,
29/01/2009,
£30.00
£27.00
Learning is a complex process. This book provides a model for furthering the development of successful learning in schools.
Becoming Emotionally Intelligent 2ed
Paperback,
18/12/2008,
£19.99
£17.99
Looks at how the reader can become emotionally intelligent and teach in a way which encourages students to develop their own emotional intelligence. This book explains what emotional intelligence is and how it is an essential intelligence for people who work with people and who want to make a real difference in their communities.
NQT: The beginning teacher's guide to outstanding practice
Paperback,
22/05/2017,
£21.99
£19.79
This book is written by experienced teachers and teacher training experts to provide pragmatic and evidence-based support for newly qualified teachers.
PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF TEACHING AND TRAINING: A GUIDE FOR TEACHERS AND TRAINERS IN THE FE AND SKILLS SECTOR
Paperback,
23/10/2017,
£24.99
£22.49
The only all-encompassing guide to everything you need to know to teach and train in post compulsory education!
Getting into Teacher Training 3ed
Paperback,
17/11/2017,
£19.99
£17.99
This comprehensive and accessible guide is written by experts on intitial teacher training and provides all the information needed to apply to initial teacher training in England.
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher 2ed
Hardback,
03/02/2017,
£32.99
£29.69
A practical guide to the essential practice that builds better teachers. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher is the landmark guide to critical reflection, providing expert insight and practical tools to facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique.
Assessment
Paperback,
08/05/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
A critical overview of assessment, taking an evidence-based approach, with balanced and reflective consideration given to the research and arguments around various approaches to assessment in schools.
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
Paperback,
27/03/2003,
£13.99
£12.59
"Teach Your Own" not only has all the vital information necessary to be the bible for parents teaching their own children, it also conveys Holt's wise and passionate belief in every child's ability to learn from the world.
Curriculum and the Specialization of Knowledge: Studies in the sociology of education
Paperback,
14/09/2015,
£39.99
£35.99
PLAYING WITH FIRE: EMBRACING RISK AND DANGER IN SCHOOLS
Paperback,
04/10/2016,
£14.00
£12.60
Mike Fairclough, renowned headmaster at West Rise Junior School, TES Primary School of the Year, demonstrates how teachers and leaders can cultivate a culture of risk-taking and danger within their students - and themselves.
Sport Foundations for Elementary Physical Education
Hardback,
01/03/2003,
£19.95
£17.96
Aimed at primary school and trainee teachers, this book gives a comprehensive and field-tested plan for employing a tactical games approach to teaching games and sports in primary schools. This is intended to increase students' motivation, enhance tactical awareness and improve skill development.
Understanding Research with Children and Young People
Paperback,
26/11/2013,
£27.99
£25.19
Useful strategies and guidance for anyone needing to explore the practical and ethical issues around researching with children and young people.
High Challenge, Low Threat: How the Best Leaders Find the Balance
Paperback,
11/04/2016,
£15.00
£13.50
Mary Myatt's standout book shines an uncompromising light on the things that wise school leaders do. Informed through thousands of conversations over a 20-year career in schools, it argues that the best leaders do not shy away from the tough stuff and shows how to create conditions for productive work which transcend day-to-day difficulties.
Teaching What They Learn, Learning
Paperback,
30/04/2008,
£24.99
£22.49
Explores the multiple social, political, and epistemological domains that comprise learning-to-teach
Next Steps in Teaching: Guide to Starting your Career in the Secondary
7,
30/06/2005,
£16.99
£15.29
Chart your next steps in teaching from finishing your teacher training programme, your probationary year, and then into the settled routine of the second and third years of teaching. Suitable for newly trained teachers and those in their first year.
Continuing Professional Development
Paperback,
26/10/2000,
£28.99
£26.09
The second edition of this popular text meets the continued and increasing demand of teachers to apply professional development techniques from other areas of work to their own profession.
Transforming Play: Teaching Tactics and Game Sense
Paperback,
01/01/2010,
£21.95
£19.76
Transforming Play: Teaching Tactics and Game Sense helps you teach general tactics and gross motor skills that students can apply to many sports. The book offers great tools for teaching attack and defense games. Kids learn attack and defense tactics, team formations, and man-to-man and zone defenses.
Stress Free Teaching
7,
01/05/2000,
£17.99
£16.19
This manual provides advice on dealing with stress in teaching. It seeks to combine self-help guidance with a core of professional reality to provide solutions that are effective and tailored to the demands of the educational sector. There are case studies from both the UK and abroad.
Art of Standing Out: Transforming Your School to Outstanding... and Beyond
Paperback,
04/07/2016,
£15.00
£13.50
The Art of Standing Out is the culmination of 18 years' experience as a headteacher for Andrew Morrish. He has a proven record for transforming challenging schools - one that few can match. The founder of a successful MAT, Andrew shares the journey from special measures to outstanding - showing clearly how to create a standout school.
Education and Constructions of Childhood
Paperback,
12/01/2012,
£31.99
£28.79
A guide to a key area of Education Studies BA courses offering an introduction to the emergence of modern and post-modern childhoods. It considers the social construction of childhood through the institutions of education. It is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students on education studies and related courses.
Enhancing Teaching Practice in Higher Education
Paperback,
10/03/2016,
£26.99
£24.29
Supports new and experienced lecturers on how pedagogical research and theory can be used to develop and enhance their academic practice.
Academic Practice: Developing as a Professional in Higher Education
Paperback,
15/10/2015,
£26.99
£24.29
Taking a broad contemporary view of higher education, this book includes: connecting research and teaching in practice; promoting critical approaches to the curriculum; teaching for employability and understanding graduate identity; responding to the internationalisation agenda; engaging with the demands of the digital university; and more.
Nurture Groups in Schools: Principles and practice
Paperback,
30/05/2010,
£23.99
£21.59
In this expanded and updated second edition, Lucas provides readers with an accessible and motivating exploration of the theory and practice of nurture groups.
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