Written in a user-friendly, jargon-free style, this text provides the reader with points of growth or change in the field of assessment. Each chapter in the text ends with a section on questions/exercises and further reading. more »

All teachers will be familiar with the problems of effectively managing a class of children with varying abilities. This book considers issues such as empowerment and sources for learning and behaviour difficulties. more »

Explaining shows what explanation is and what it aims to do. It helps teachers to build up a repertoire of techniques and to evaluate the effectiveness of their explanations in the classroom. ... more » more »

This book is a unique and detailed snapshot of the first years of schooling for a child with Down's Syndrome. Written by her classroom assistants, the book shows how inclusion can be a success not only for the child and family but also for the school. more »

As early education and child care increase, parents and professionals face many questions. This book proposes three dimensions of care giving behaviour, by which parents and professionals can help themselves, and young children, to develop. more »

Product Info This book describes how secondary teachers have planned and implemented critical literacy curricula on a range of topics from Skakespeare to the workplace. more »

Analyses the strategies teachers can use to improve the educational achievements of both boys and girls. Also challenges gender construction in the classroom and thereby addresses the 'gender-gap' i... more » more »

This book focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of internationa... more » more »

This accessible book offers an account of the range of teaching, assessing and feedback strategies used by individual 'expert' primary teachers and how they know or decide which strategy to bring into play, and when. more »

Product Info An overview of the work of the inspection and advisory services as they relate to the LEAs and other involved parties such as the DfEE, OFSTED, schools and governing bodies. more »

Features case studies which show how teachers have put design and technology into practice. The authors explore problem solving activities, the National Curriculum and areas of difficulty such as electricity and the use of technical lego. more »

Drawing on insights from other European curricular systems, this provocative book will contribute, in a timely way, to the debate on reformations of the National Curriculum. The text includes points for discussion and lists of further reading. more »