Model Number: BBT203122127DLDA
Author: Harrison, Edited by Colin and Martin Coles
A practical guide to a `real reading' approach to beginning reading, this valuable book explores issues such as choice of books and parental involvement in reading. It contains advice for teachers wishing to make better use of stories. more »
Product Info Talking Books is a collection of monologues - reworked transcripts from indepth interviews with some of the most important and influential of contemporary children's writers. more »
Explores the theory behind adult literacy education - discussing the arguments in favour of literacy, and analysing principles by which literacy may be creatively learned, looking in detail at context, equality and community. 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 »
Model Number: BBT203101316DLDA
Author: Hornbrook, David (Ed.)
In this collection of essays, David Hornbrook and a team of contributors focus on practical strategies for developing the drama curriculum in primary and secondary schools. The book also clearly explain the theory behind these strategies more »
Model Number: BBSS0743445740DLDA
Author: Barfield, Rhonda
The book that shows homeschooling in action! What does it really mean when parents say they homeschool their child or children? For Rhonda Barfield -- a homeschooler for the past 10 years -- the definition is as diverse as the 21 families she studies in this eye-opening book. Real-Life Homeschooling ...more »
Model Number: BBT203153995DLDA
Author: Edited by Richard Mills and Jean Mills
Richly based on case study material, this book helps primary teachers to understand the experience of bilingual children and shows it as a benefit rather than a hindrance in the classroom. more » more »
Model Number: BBT020310627XDLDA
Author: Edited by Steve Herne, John Jessel and Jenny Griff
Product Info A useful and comprehensive introduction to research, this book identifies and demystifies aspects more relevant to the education student. more »
Product Info Sexual Bullying draws together a number of theories on gender, adolescent behaviour and schooling to examine the social processes at work in four comprehensive schools. more »
Model Number: BBTW1401381480DLDA
Author: Clark, Ron
Ron Clark's THE EXCELLENT 11 contains eleven sections, each with a theme directly related to teaching and raising children. In each section, the author gives advice, tells stories of his experiences, and explains the importance of each theme within the learning environment. The learning environment includes ...more »