Aims to help student teachers in their task of learning and developing their professional practice. Includes useful advice on teaching skills, class management and health and safety. ... more » more »

Product Info Young argues the need to rethink post-16 education to shift focus onto vocational education, school-work issues and lifelong learning. more »

A practical handbook which senior staff in primary schools can use to support their activities in evidence-based management. This book will provide guidance on the need to conduct and act upon quality reviews and evidence-based analysis. more »

Product Info This book gives a series of briefings on the main issues in primary education and the implications for schools and is presented in a convenient A-Z format. more »

This book addresses the problem of how best to evaluate and improve the standard of teaching in higher education in a climate of accountability and appraisal. Linking educational theory with the practical realities of teaching, it argues that becoming an effective teacher in higher education involves ... more »

Examining how Australia, the UK and Canada have tried to meet the needs of pupils with special educational needs, this book looks at the major issues, types of provisions and resourcing which have been offered and a vision of the future. more »

This book draws together a range of issues about the use of ICT in the classroom into one volume. It encourages students and teachers to reflect on issues so that they can make reasoned and informed judgements about their teaching. more »

Product Info This book is designed to help teachers to deal with and resolve the most awkward situations within a school in the most effective and ethical ways. more »

Presents research into the differences in boys' and girls' experiences of the reading and writing curriculum at home and in school. The book includes an outline of the theoretical debates on gender difference and academic achievement. more »

More than 70 per cent of newly qualified secondary teachers feel that their initial teacher training courses have not prepared them for all aspects of their role. This book tackles the issues which new teachers find difficult. more »

Blends theory and practice to present a broad introduction to the practice of teaching English in secondary school classrooms. It looks at how students and practising teachers can monitor and develop their own practices. more »

During the first half of the century, John Dewey's highly original philosophy exerted an important influence on both academic philosophy and educational thinking in the United States. Between the two world wars he acquired a national reputation as a political thinker and activist, which has not since ... more »