Promoting children's wellbeing examines the various policies and practices which are intended to contribute to children's wellbeing. This work includes topics such as: the development of children's identities, the value of play in the lives of contemporary children, the promotion of children's health, risk and staying safe, and family law.

Assists teachers to train pupils aged 6-11 in peer befriending. This book includes comprehensive facilitator notes on running training programme for young people including Circle Time activities, pro-social games and necessary photocopiable worksheets.

Written by a collection of academic and practice-based experts, this vital new guide helps readers to understand the underlying concepts behind support to, and supervision of, those involved in integrated youth support systems.

Putting the Human Centre Stage focuses on the hidden skills within your teaching repertoire. This book will help you to develop, reflect on, and improve these skills, enriching your practice in the process.

Examines how quality and good practice in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is interpreted and implemented in a variety of settings and circumstances. This book considers the variety of rationales that inform services for early childhood education and care.

Provides 100 tried and tested ideas to use for behaviour management in the Early Years.

Exploring key issues in teaching through the lens of reflective practice, in order to deepen understanding of teaching practice.

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.

The goal of this text is to help teachers explore and define their own positions with regard to key topics and issues related to the aims of education in a democratic society. It explains how reflection is integral to teachers' work and elaborates how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another.

This book offers a model which can be readily applied to training, assessment of standards, inspections, and research and development. It is based on the latest research and reflects the national drive towards evidence-based standards.

This book provides insights into contemporary issues that inform better behavior management in schools and offers practical advice for improvement through policy, communications, and practice.

Shows the reader how to create exciting outdoor experiences for children, and incorporate the wilder and riskier elements of outdoor play into their planning, while adhering to health and safety requirements.

Go on! You can do it! This book follows on from David Gumbrell's text LIFT!, arguing that when you are feeling more resilient you have the courage and confidence to take more risks. You can also calculate that risk more rationally, thereby making it less risky and more likely to result in success.

In this concise new guide, Barack Rosenshine fan Tom Sherrington amplifies and augments the famous 'Principles of Instruction' paper and further demonstrates how they can be put into practice in everyday classrooms.

Following the resounding success of Tom Sherrington's Rosenshine's Principles in Action, The Workbook seeks to further this engagement by providing a thought-provoking and reflective guide designed to encourage teachers in all settings to become self-aware practitioners.

Run Wild is full of ideas and inspiration for outdoor games, adventures and practical activities for children and young people.

A coordinated and comprehensive volume of international research on this subject edited by members of the well-established European Early Childhood Education Research Association Outdoor Play and Learning SIG (OPAL).

Teaching is often perceived by the public as being one of the hardest jobs of all. This book looks at this area.

A humorous and incisive reflection on education - the autobiography of a dunce who became a brilliant teacher and a bestselling author.