The new edition of the best-selling introductory guide to Masters-level PGCE courses for all students embarking on postgraduate initial teacher training.

Explores the problems involved in 'touching' children in an educational environment. This book uses real-life examples taken from research into the mentality of risk culture, and highlights a state of affairs in which ordinary well-meaning professionals feel they cannot offer even very young children basic levels of comforting or affection.

A practical guide for those who need advice of managing behaviour. Containing advice on various aspects of behaviour management, it covers problems such as managing 'problem' pupils and dealing with a classroom 'riot'. It also covers avoiding confrontation and the use of humour, empathy and common sense.

Early childhood education and care policy impacts upon the daily lives of early years practitioners and the families and children they work with. Practising and trainee early childhood professionals need to have an understanding of the policy and the contexts for policy-making and implementation. This book provides information on this topic.

By examining how young children develop and learn from conception through to the age of eight, this book explores ways to enhance professional practice in the early years. For further discussion and engagement with current issues and hot topics in Early Childhood subscribe to Sheila Nutkin's author blog.

This book explores the relationships between theory, policy and practice in early childhood services. Although primarily focused on the UK, it draws on contributions from Europe and further afield to explore the strengths and limitations of present practices and suggests ways in which new initiatives might be developed.

This book offers clear, concise and practical information about health and safety, whilst fully translating the legislative documentation that surrounds it to ensure that you meet the statutory requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

A key text for all those undertaking placements or work-based learning in early years settings.

With forewords by Professor Tanya Byron and Octavius Black, Educating Ruby: what our children really need to learn is a powerful call to action by acclaimed thought-leaders Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas.

Detailing how to plan and prepare for a school trip, this text provides advice on the right and wrong way to approach trips that will both educate and entertain. A directory of places of interest grouped into subject-specific sections is included.

Nurture groups are spreading throughout the UK. This text is written in response to the support given by the DfEE to the project and the recognition by every special needs policy document that they provide early intervention for children showing signs of emotional and behavioural difficulties.

The 'holy grail' of planning, this book explains why medium term plans are important and how to actually go about constructing them.

Offers an exploration of practical teaching strategies and provides ideas that are supported by practical experience, research evidence and theory. This book is intended for those teachers who are on their central professional task of understanding and deploying a range of teaching modes and strategies in order to promote successful learning.

Written by best-selling author of Essential Teaching Skills, this research-informed guide is the perfect introduction to what defines good teaching. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it enables trainees and new teachers to build on theoretical work where it matters in the classroom.

Looking at the educational research behind a wide range of teaching topics, this book explores what the evidence shows about effectiveness of different approaches.

Ideal for teachers, psychologists and lecturers wishing to implement a practical, whole-school training program to help practitioners nurture children's emotional development.

Packed full of practical strategies, case studies and printable resources, this book is an essential handbook for all early years professionals

A guide to developing productive student-faculty partnerships in higher education Student-faculty partnerships is an innovation that is gaining traction on campuses across the country. There are few established models in this new endeavor, however.

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Enriching and empowering teaching in universities, with a focus on transformational practice and education for social justice.

Based on evaluation of ICT work in a range of schools in Northern Ireland, asking what it takes to change learning through technology in what we call 'e-schooling', this book asks some hard-hitting questions of those involved in educating young people in schools at the start of the 21st century.

Offers knowledge to support various teaching assistants working towards Level 2 of the National Occupational Standards. Taking into account initiatives including Workforce Remodelling and the Every Child Matters agenda, this book is useful to training providers, teachers and school managers supporting Teaching Assistants in their development.

Demystifying current theories and debates about assessment, 'The Essential Guide to Assessment' is a practical guide showing trainees and teachers how to put certain strategies and models into practice in the classroom right away.