In this inventive book- part professional development resource, part personal journal- educator, author, and podcaster Suzanne Dailey contends that small shifts bring big gifts: that is, small positive changes, practiced overtime, will help you feel more balanced, content and aligned.
The handbooks offer clear, practical, and current guidance on teaching and assessing skills across various core subjects for IGCSE and O Level. They are also suitable for educators implementing local syllabuses in these subjects. The books provide ideas and strategies for effective classroom practices, coursework development, student assessment, and the integration of various skills. Readers ca…
Science teacher educators, curriculum specialists, professional development facilitators, and K- 8 teachers are bound to increase their understanding and confidence when teaching inquiry after a careful reading of this definitive volume. Advancing a new perspective, James Jadrich and Crystal Bruxvoort assert that scientific inquiry is best taught using models in science rather than focusing on …
Discusses the educator as a role model, the classroom as a moral community, and confronting the issues of drugs, alcohol, and sex
Do the never ending pressures of teaching drain you emotionally? Is lack of resources and support stealing your enthusiasm? Are the small daily hassles adding up and overwhelming you?
An indispensable companion for teachers who want to give their absolute best in the classroom at all times and under all circumstances
A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what's really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins. Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year in the classroom. She…
"Written under the guidance and with the support of Dylan Wiliam, Kate Jones writes about five formative assessment strategies in action in the classroom, with a foreword from Professor John Hattie. Building on the highly successful work of Wiliam and Siobhan Leahy, ideas are shared and misconceptions with formative assessment are addressed with lots of practical advice. Formative assessment in…
Following the resounding success of Tom Sherrington's Rosenshine's Principles in Action, The Workbook seeks to further this engagement by providing a thought-provoking and reflective guide designed to encourage teachers in all settings to become self-aware practitioners.
Following the break-out success of Teaching WalkThrus Volume 1 (2020) and Volume 2 (2021), Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli present the third instalment of their five-step instructional coaching techniques. Volume 3 features 50 more essential teaching methods in the authors’ concise and accessible format, covering all the key areas of teaching: behaviour and relationships; curriculum pl…
This book looks at the sensible and meaningful role of self-review in creating sustainable improvement in all areas across secondary schools. It outlines a self-review approach focussed on key principles which ensure this approach is transparent, purposeful, does not negatively impact on workload, that does not use the same approach for all teams and that does actually result in clear ideas for…
Teaching is complex. But there are simple ideas we can enact to help our teaching be more effective. This book contains over 400 such ideas. The ideas come from two sources. First, from the wonderful guests on my Tips for Teachers podcast - education heavyweights such as Dylan Wiliam, Daisy Christodoulou and Tom Sherrington, as well as talented teachers who are not household names but have so …
Ask any teacher why they went into teaching, and they'll invariably refer to students or their subject. Yet, modern educators are faced with a dilemma: the industry judges us primarily on outcomes, offering the justification that grades improve life chances. Grades improve life chances as much as money buys happiness: it's no more than a prop or a poor substitute. Unless the profession starts t…
Teach to the Top is a research-informed guide to aspirational teaching, focusing on how embedding higher-level knowledge in the classroom empowers students to succeed and to enjoy learning. Questioning existing orthodoxies around ability, Teach to the Top sets out a vision for an education system in which pupils of all attainment levels are enabled to make fantastic progress by being exposed to…
The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults and children alike. James is fed up. His family has moved to a new cottage – with grounds that are great for excavations, and trees that are perfect for climbing – and stuff is happening. Stuff that is normally the kind of thing he does. But it's not him who's writing strange things on shopp…
TI-Nspire CX II is an interactive handled with a full-colour display that enables greater understanding and exploration of mathematical representations.
The teaching of poetry is often split into two separate activities: reading poetry and writing poetry. This distinction is both strange and illogical, as the two practices are deeply interconnected and mutually reinforcing. This book aims to demonstrate how essential reading poetry is for writing it, and vice versa. The text will be organized into three sections. The first will offer insights b…
Chekhov's works are unflinching in the face of human frailty. With their emphasis on the dignity and value of individuals during unique moments, they help us better understand how to exist with others when we are fundamentally alone. Written in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, when the country began to move fitfully toward industrialization and grappled with the influence of Western…
The handbooks provide clear practical and up-to-date adviceon teaching and assessing skills across a range of core subject areas for IGCSE and O Level;they can also be used by teachers delivering local syllabuses in the subject. They offer ideas and strategies for effective classroom practice, the setting of coursework, assessing students' work and the integration of different skills. Readers c…
This book is for everyone else. We manage most of the time, with occasional heart-stopping moments as we realise, or fear that we're guilty of a massive oversight.
This book is intended to assist would-be English teachers in their journey towards the achievement of outcomes related to the actual teaching and assessment of literature studies in the target language.
This book provides aspiring professional teachers with a comprehensive view of how to teach in multi-grade classroom.
This book is meant for the course in Principles of Teaching in the new teacher education curriculum. To be true to the national competency based teacher standards, one key element in the teacher education and development program, the authors were guided by the course syllabus published in the PAFTE journal given in annual national convention. This book contains the precipitate of a number of y…