Rev. ed. of: Coaching for schools: New York: Pearson Education, c2006.

'The Essential Guide to Lesson Planning' is intended to help trainee and newly qualified teachers come to grips with the daily lesson planning required from them. It shows how the time spent planning good lessons can help to ensure that time in the classroom is effective, productive and enjoyable.

Whether you are taking a group of reception children to a local museum or organising a week's residential trip for sixth formers, this text provides a complete guide, from the planning stage through to post-trip evaluation.

What can you do to reduce the impact of bullying at your school and create a safer learning environment? This guide arms you with the knowledge, skills and strategies needed to confront and prevent the growing problem of bullying in the 21st century.

An accessible, carefully researched, quick-read on assessment for early career teachers, linked to the new ECF.

An accessible, carefully researched, quick-read on mental well-being and self-care for all early career teachers.

An accessible, carefully researched, quick-read on developing positive behaviour for all early career teachers.

An accessible, carefully researched, quick-read on managing workload and productivity for all early career teachers.

Suitable for practicing and aspiring teaching assistants, this book brings together crucial information necessary to support the diversity of learners, from Early Years to Key Stage 4. It supports the personalized learning and Every Child Matters (ECM) well being of children and young people in schools.

Teachers work between 50 - 60 hours per week, which can result in tremendous strain on an individual. This "Classmate" offers advice on how teachers can reduce their workload through managing their time effectively.

Discover small but powerful changes you can make in the classroom and in school to help your students who are worried about studying and exams.

This book offers a powerful manifesto for schools to articulate a different vision of education that looks beyond exam success.

This book looks at what we know about becoming a skilled performer or practitioner and how this relates to classroom teaching and learning.

In The Expert Teacher: Using pedagogical content knowledge to plan superb lessons, Darren Mead presents an engaging, research-informed view on which teaching strategies work best to induce long-term learning in students.

Aimed at teachers who wish to improve their professional practice, this work helps the reader to think about current practice, not only in terms of skills and competences to be developed, but also in areas of knowledge to be enriched.

This book will help teachers make talk in classrooms more effective, educational and enjoyable

Covers the core questions that both new and existing teaching assistants may have about their jobs. Arranged in question and answer format, this book focuses specifically on the core 'need to know' items for TAs and includes: the themes of becoming a teaching assistant, what the job entails, getting started, and managing workload.

With an emphasis on safety and adult supervision, this book presents simple and fun projects that children can make and enjoy hours of play with afterwards - projects such as a kazoo, mini furniture, duck call, whimmy diddle, rhythm sticks and elder wand.

Learn how to light a fire without matches, build a shelter to sleep in, cook on a fire, hunt for bugs and much more. From essential bushcraft basics and Stone Age survival skills to joyful outdoor play, this book is packed with ideas to bring your little ones closer to nature and all its magical offerings.

Aimed at parents, teachers and Forest School leaders, this new book from Jane Worroll & Peter Houghton is packed full of fantastic new Forest School activities. It has a special focus on the elements and on making children feel connected to the natural world through imagination and storytelling.

Outdoor learning continues to play an essential role in early years education, and this new edition of a bestselling book explores how the Forest School approach can be easily and effectively incorporated into early years practice.

The GCSE Mindset: 40 activities for transforming student commitment, motivation and productivity, written by Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin, offers a wealth of concrete, practical and applicable tools designed to supercharge GCSE students' resilience, positivity, organisation and determination.