With a down-to-earth writing style, this text provides NQTs with the practical advice that they need to help quell those September nerves. It tackles the real-life issues that worry new teachers, with a focus on the period before starting the first job.

Suitable for new lecturers, this title equips them with the essential tools and guidance for delivering a successful lecture. It explains fresh developments along with the fundamentals of lecturing. It covers the basics on how to go about lecturing. It provides a chapter on podcasting and e-lecturing.

Designed as a perfect gift for teachers (there are hundreds of thousands of qualified staff currently teaching at all levels). Grey's Essential Miscellany for Teachers will amuse, entertain and educate in equal measure.

Suitable for students on initial teacher training courses across different phases in the UK, this book covers the important basic skills and issues that students need to consider during their practice, such as planning, classroom organisation, behaviour management and assessment.

Draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight, guidance and clarity about key issues affecting practitioners at various levels.

Written in the context of recent legislation and guidance to schools, this is a practical handbook for learning support assistants and teachers working with them.

This revised new edition provides essential guidance for all teaching assistants, especially those who are new to the job, but will also bring experienced TAs up to date on changes to National educational guidance, including changes in the National Curriculum, assessment, and the Special Educational Needs framework.

Is it possible to achieve a good work-life balance as a head of year while still being effective and offering the best pastoral care for your students that you can? This book shows you how.

Revised for the second edition, this text comprises an overview of developments in research, legislation and practice with regard to the support, management and staff development needs of learning support assistants in mainstream and special schools.

In this practical guide, the author defines professional development, uses examples from current practice, and discusses supporting and monitoring staff in your school.

The word 'homework' causes despair in both pupils and teachers. Pupils because they have to do it and teachers because they have to prepare it, enforce it, collect it and mark it. This practical guide covers all areas of homework from reasons for setting it, to motivational techniques and how to support pupils of all standards.

Now in its fifth edition, the award-winning How Languages are Learned has established itself as an indispensable introduction to research in language acquisition and its relationship with classroom practice.

At the core of every subject the teacher's role od the tast of being a tutor. The authors provide an accessible and realistic guide to this vital role. Covering topics such as managing tutorial sessions, dealing with bullying and more the book brings together the deeper aims of pastoral care with the daily routines and demands of school.

A practical guide that gives TAs useful advice on: the TAs role; responding to pupils' needs; strategies for behaviour management; and, working in a team. Each chapter contains checklists for TAs to record their progress and real life case studies for the TA to learn from.

A practical guide to outdoor skills and crafts, designed to coax kids away from their screens and discover how to become intrepid explorers.

In How to Explain Absolutely Anything to Absolutely Anyone: The art and science of teacher explanation, Andy Tharby talks teachers through a set of remarkably simple techniques that will help revolutionise the precision and clarity of their message.

'How To Keep Young Children Safe' provides practical advice on issues such as: the most common types of accidents and how to prevent them, safety with pets and animals, water safety and garden safety, first aid for staff and children, and play and equipment.

New edition providing staff development activities and covers how to manage student behaviour in Further Education.

Includes both literacy and numeracy revision and mock tests. In this book, the numeracy section starts at a low level and includes a diagnostic test, a maths review, mental and general arithmetic practice, and revision of statistics.

A guide to practical and effective communication with your children. This book shows you how to cope with your child's negative feelings, such as frustration, disappointment and anger; express your anger without being hurtful; engage your child's co-operation; set clear limits and still maintain goodwill; use alternatives to punishment; and more.

Outlines what a newly qualified teacher needs to know in order to be an immediate success in the classroom. The book includes a substantial section on every new teacher's biggest concern: behaviour management, as well as giving tips on: various teaching methods; lesson planning; assessment; and ways of organising the classroom.

Tried and tested strategies to promote mindfulness, motivation and productivity at work, this book helps you face the demands of your job whatever your working environment and whatever stage you are at in your career.

This book highlights the personal and relational aspects of colleague support, and uses the voices of teachers and case studies to illustrate the moral, structural, and professional dimensions.