Essential reading for your year as a primary newly qualified teacher (NQT), providing support through advice, reassurance and practical strategies, and encouraging you to critically reflect on your experiences to get the most from your induction period.
A collection of challenges from throughout history, featuring some of the greatest ever puzzle masters.A Sumerian Riddle (circa 18th Century)There is a house. The blind enter it and then come out seeing. What is that house? A CharadeI have wings, yet never fly - I have sails, yet never go - I cant keep still, if I try,Yet forever stand just so.
This popular and widely recommended book outlines all the requirements of the Numeracy Skills Test. Written by one of the authors of the skills test itself, it explains the essential subject knowledge candidates need and includes practice questions for test preparation.
This popular and widely recommended book outlines all of the requirements of the Literacy Skills Test, explaining the essential subject knowledge candidates need to know. This fifth edition also includes a full practice test, more practice questions and more question and answer commentary.
Using practical and jargon-free activities, this book analyzes the eight new standards implemented by the General Teaching Council, describing what student teachers need to know, understand and demonstrate as they work towards Qualified Teacher Status.
An invaluable text for all primary language trainees, of particular relevance for those who will be delivering the new primary language entitlement from 2010.
New edition of this essential text for secondary teacher trainees covering all the key issues for learning and teaching in secondary schools. Linked to the new Teachers' Standards.
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.
A practical guide, giving trainees the technical and pedagogical knowledge and understanding to make effective use of this new technology (VLEs) in their teaching.
A text for primary trainees on embedding primary mathematics across the curriculum and strengthening mathematics subject knowledge. Linked to the 2012 Teachers' Standards.
An essential text for primary trainees providing guidance on embedding primary English across the curriculum and strengthening English subject knowledge.
Supports trainee teachers in the development of an integrated and cross-curricular approach to learning and teaching in humanities across the primary school, including the EYFS.
A popular cross-curricular text, revised and updated to include the new Professional Standards for QTS, of increasing importance within the context of Every Child Matters.
A practical approach to assessment, mixing good practice in the classroom with current theory and research, specifically targeted at secondary trainees.
A self test tool for trainee primary teachers to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses in mathematics and to monitor and evaluate progress towards Qualified Teacher Status.
A self test tool for trainee primary teachers to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses in English and monitor and evaluate their progress towards Qualified Teacher Status.
Includes both literacy and numeracy revision and mock tests. In this book, the numeracy section starts at a low level and includes a diagnostic test, a maths review, mental and general arithmetic practice, and revision of statistics.
The new edition of the best-selling introductory guide to Masters-level PGCE courses for all students embarking on postgraduate initial teacher training.