A visual book that offers primary and secondary teachers practical guidance to help them through their training and first few years in teaching. With checklists, stress busting tips and useful sources of support and advice, it is suitable guide for all trainee and beginning teachers.

Maria Robinson discusses behaviour in a developmental context providing a way of thinking about and understanding behaviour that follows the shifts and changes over time as the baby and young child grow and mature.

Structured to support teaching assistants studying for a foundation degree, this book provides an academic underpinning to each of the key topics studied. The book: develops the theoretical knowledge needed to enhance work in the classroom; and encourages students to reflect on their own practice.

Covering an amazing array of outdoor activities, this book helps city kids to discover the natural world.

Inspiring ideas for discovering and exploring outdoors, whether that's a city park, a beach, deep in the woods or even in a garden. Activities for all weathers include building a shelter, stargazing, marking a trail, catching crabs and listening for creatures at night. With tips for identifying wildlife and advice throughout on staying safe.

This text discusses quality in early childhood services. It covers such issues as: involving parents and children in defining quality; research and evaluation; training and curriculum; and working in ethnically-diverse societies.

Takes the next step and explains how to apply the principles from Visible Learning in your classroom. This book offers: concise and user-friendly summaries of the most successful practices and interventions; and practical, step-by-step guidance for successfully implementing visible learning and visible teaching.

Builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. This book covers areas such as the influence of the student, home, school, curricula, teacher, and teaching strategies. It develops a model of teaching and learning based on the notion of visible teaching and visible learning.

A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger presents a clear approach to helping children and adults alike understand and deal with children's anger. Using easy to understand skills for anger management, this book offers engaging, well-organized activities which help to overcome the fear of children's.

Helping teachers to counter challenging behaviour, absenteeism and bullying, this text shows how transactional analysis can benefit the individual, class and whole school across the early years, primary and secondary phases.

How do you talk to your teen when their only focus is the screen in front of them? How do you help them to build a core of self-esteem in a world obsessed with appearances? This practical guide from one of the UK's leading adolescent psychoanalysts helps you through every possible hurdle in the teenage years.

This updated book on the brain's natural learning process offers practical methods for teaching all students to take responsibility for their own success.

A walk through all the most important issues in education, comparing commonly-held beliefs with simple summaries of the evidence, providing you with clear, jargon-free information.

Tileston guides teachers through the root causes of discipline problems and presents seven effective tools to prevent or minimize problem behaviors.

Technology plus classroom can equal success for students. This invaluable resource for teachers presents classroom applications of media, technology, and the Internet.

The Joy of Text in a Secondary School Classroom

Intended to help anyone who teaches, this book presents an account of good practice. Divided into two parts, it offers an insight into how to teach in almost any set of circumstances. It helps teachers to think through their own problems and situations.

Explores the concept of academic and personal tutoring and brings together theoretical arguments; activities in schools and classrooms; and observations gleaned from the authors' own research. This book recognises the important role of the personal tutor in working individually with his or her students.