Offers practical guidance and ideas to support Higher Level Teaching Assistants (HLTAs). This book covers the knowledge and skills needed by HLTAs to work effectively with pupils, teachers, parents and other professionals concerned with the well-being of children.

An accessible guide for those wanting to help and support children and young people with, or at risk of developing mental health problems.

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.

With real examples and case studies from the author's own experience, this book explores how children learn to communicate using language, how they use language to learn and the role of adults in the process.

In Teach Like Nobody's Watching: The essential guide to effective and efficient teaching, Mark Enser sets out a time-efficient approach to teaching that will reduce teachers' workload and enhance their pupils' levels of engagement and attainment.

Being taught by a great teacher is one of the great privileges of life. Teach Now! is an exciting new series that opens up the secrets of great teachers and, step-by-step, helps trainees to build the skills and confidence they need to become first-rate classroom practitioners.

This is a guide to getting the most out of a teacher training course in the United Kingdom. It covers both primary and secondary teaching and is suitable for students following undergraduate, postgraduate or alternative routes.

Paul Blum offers a recognisable, blunt and truthful account of widespread and quite horrendous problems affecting teachers today and offers practical strategies and solutions.

Providing teachers with an accessible guide to their responsibilities to children who may have been abused, clarifying their role within the child protection system, this book has been designed to ensure information can be found quickly, without teachers having to wade through excessive prose.

Suitable for trainees teachers, NQTs and any other teachers who need to know their rights and responsibilities as teachers under the law.

Provides ideas and tactics to: tackle difficult situations in the classroom; deal with stress and manage time more efficiently; build and sustain successful relationships with colleagues; create positive learning environments; and, develop or change careers, and more.

We have allowed powerful institutions to manipulate the fear of parents and teachers to the extent that neither can see how to proceed without being told what to think.

Maps out the professional, political and theoretical landscape of reflective practice, its nature and purposes and the claims being made for it. The authors centre their text on a model of the teacher as a reflective learner, with enlightenment and empowerment as central themes.

Maps out the professional and theoretical landscape of reflective practice, its nature and purposes and the claims being made for it. This book takes readers through a systematic process where the initial focus on learning, developing and growing, starts from an understanding of one's strengths, not weaknesses and problems.

Provides a range of materials and practical advice on how to demonstrate competence in the classroom. This book covers: setting the scene - describing a common teaching situation through a case study or dialogue; gathering evidence - how a candidate can gather evidence to meet performance indicators from the featured case studies; and more.

Teaching assistants play a vital role in today's schools. This book will help them to get to grips with the main issues relating to psychology and its role in the processes of teaching and learning.

A guide offering advice on: the role of literacy in the classrooms; on developing reading, writing, speaking and listening skills; and, on using various strategies to help build pupils' confidence. It includes chapters that contain checklists for TAs to record their progress and real life case studies for the TA to learn from.

This book, specially written with Teaching Assistants in mind, looks at common behaviour problems in schools, explains typical causes of misbehaviour and shows what Teaching Assistants can do to tackle and tame disruptive children in their care.

Written by a top expert in the field of primary education, this essential guide for trainee teaching assistants covers every aspect of what they need to know, and uses case studies of real life scenarios to make this a detailed yet jargon-free guide.

Designed to meet the needs of foundation degree students, this book provides an overview of the teaching assistant's role, incorporating practical tasks that aims to challenge students and improve their day-to-day practice. It covers personal professional development, helping teaching assistants to understand their role and their workplace.

Suitable for the 2007 Standards in Supporting Teaching and Learning in the Classroom, this book includes a DVD providing clips which demonstrate some of the many roles of teaching/classroom assistants. It also includes sections covering follow-up activities and case studies to help put learning into context.

This practical handbook contains information for candidates on the NVQ Teaching Assistants course or practitioners working alongside classroom teachers. It explores all the aspects of establishing relationships with children, supporting learning activities and managing behaviour.