An informative guidebook that explores the wealth of evidence behind and the benefits of test-enhanced learning, spaced retrieval practice and personalisation.

A step-by-step guide on how to get simple, powerful cooperative learning up and running in your setting - both as classroom practice and as a wider approach to empower the entire school community.

A bumper book of boredom-busting fun, packed with loads of simple, quick activities and creative ideas that engage kids with the great outdoors.

This book is a complete guide to Forest School provision and nature pedagogy, and it examines the models, methods, worldviews and values that underpin teaching in nature. It shows how a robust nature pedagogy can support learning, behaviour and physical and emotional wellbeing, and, importantly, a deeper relationship with the natural world.

What does it mean to become an educator during one of the most profound periods of educational and social change in modern history?

An introduction to the responsibilities and requirements of working as a teacher in comprehensive education. The objectives of the work are to: relate teacher competencies to professionalism; bring the teacher face to face with professional realities; and set expectations in context.

Discusses the changes to children's services undertaken to improve the outcomes of all young children. This book shows how the overall aims are to tackle child poverty, improve child protection and the education and childcare for young children, to raise standards, and to provide greater support for parents in bringing up their children.

An introduction to the techniques, theories and methods of teaching from facilitating problem-based learning to the role of lectures, this book explores the issues that underpin interpersonal methods of teaching. It contains material on e-moderating (teaching online), issues surrounding discipline and teaching, and ethical dimensions of teaching.

Tracing the application and outcome of a four-year international research project examining the use of the principles of therapeutic education in a school setting, this book offers practical guidance for teachers of troubled children.

A guide to planning for and teaching critical thinking in schools, whether for discrete assessment or to improve analytical skills across the curriculum. With an introduction to what critical thinking skills are, it is suitable for the teachers wanting to improve their students reasoning and problem-solving skills.

This dynamic, reader-friendly text helps students make informed decisions about entering teacher education programs. The authors use multiple sources, including biographies and dialogues, to increase student interest and involvement with the material, and encourage students to regard becoming a teacher a positive challenge.

Martha Boyne, Emily Clements and Ben Wright's Thrive: In your first three years in teaching equips trainee secondary school teachers with the know-how to lay the foundations for a successful career in teaching, long after the challenging first few years are over.

Can a robot be kind? Can you touch the wind? Is there more future than past?

This guide to school trips is a resource to both teachers and governors alike. It should be particularly useful to newly qualified teachers as it addresses the school trip from all angles, covering everything from legal issues, through to the impact of the coach upon staff car parking spaces.

Intended for teacher trainers, or teachers wishing to become teacher trainers. Practical activities for training sessions, case studies, discussion of training principles, resources for teacher trainers.

Covering all the key professional issues, this book gives primary and secondary trainee teachers the confidence and guidance they need to succeed in the classroom.

Including guidelines and information on the key components of personalizing learning, this book offers activities to support personal, team and whole school understanding. It provides a range of diagnostic and developmental activities that can be used to support planning and implementation. It focuses on learning and teaching strategies; and more.

From Ancient Greece to the present day, Trivium 21c explores whether a contemporary trivium (Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric) can unite progressive and traditionalist institutions, teachers, politicians and parents in the common pursuit of providing a great education for our children in 21st Century.

Quick, simple and effective, this book is an essential resource for anyone who lectures or teaches.

Distinguished by the author's lively and witty writing style, this book is very readable and is packed with practical ideas, activities, insights and solutions which will be invaluable to all student and classroom teachers.

This book provides a systematic treatment of short, medium and long-term approaches to truancy issues as well as looking at alternative curriculum strategies and how parents can help tackle the problem.