This book shows how creative maths can really work. Exploring the ways in which maths skills can be learned through cross-curricular activities based on visual arts and music, the book presents maths as a meaningful and exciting subject which holds no fears for children. The authors recognise that while ...more »
Product Info This clearly written book from two well-known and prominent authors, looks at how children learn, and discusses how to manage, assess and evaluate maths in the school and classroom. 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 »
Product Info Using fifteen case studies, all based on real situations, the authors explore such diverse areas as disruptive behaviour, dyslexia, child abuse, deafness and epilepsy. more »
Blending practical ideas with sound principles, Rob Barnes covers essential topics such as `how children draw', `design and problem-solving' and `developing ideas', with realism and imagination. more » more »
Product Info Examines the tension between intuitive and analytical ways of making sense of the world by exploring musical knowledge and experience. more »
Model Number: BBT203119754DLDA
Author: Edited by Ronald Gulliford and Graham Upton
The authors stress the entitlement of all children to a balanced curriculum. Each chapter explores how conditions can be recognised, the skills and resources needed and the implications for provision, teacher support and class management. more »
Deskilling in the education of teachers involves breaking down their tasks and delegating them to low-skill workers. This book encourages teachers to resist deskilling, to develop the ability to teach themselves and to become empowered. more »
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 »
Model Number: BBT203120302DLDA
Author: Wendy Morgan, Queensland University of Technology,
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 »
