Teacher training Books

Book SynopsisThis book brings together authors from diverse geographical and professional contexts united by a common goal: to discuss social justice in language teacher education and language classrooms. The chapters take the reader on a journey from conceptual dilemmas, through specific critical issues, to projects with clear pedagogical implications.

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How confident do you feel in your personal tutoring role? In the face of ever-increasing and demanding learner issues, do you feel equipped to provide the essential support to meet their needs? This timely book provides you with essential help in an area which has often been given little attention in comparison with curriculum delivery by: contextualising the support side of a teacher’s role within further education; looking beyond conventional notions of personal tutoring and coaching; appreciating the real world applications of issues; recognising the benefits personal tutoring and coaching bring to learners and educational institutions; reflecting on a variety of different approaches to support learners’ achievement as well as positively affecting institutional key performance indicators. It provides proven practical advice and guidance for planning and delivering group tutorials, undertaking one to ones, identifying and managing vulnerable learners and those at risk of not achieving, as well as helping learners to progress onto their chosen career paths. It explores methods to engage the most disaffected and hard to reach learners, as well as stretching and challenging the more able. It includes clear aims, detailed case studies, learning checklists and a unique self-assessment system for the reader and the educational institution. You are encouraged to develop your skills in order to influence individual learners as well as the systems, processes and performance of your educational institution by becoming an outstanding personal tutor. The text is an excellent foundation for the majority of modules on teacher training qualifications and is relevant to any pre-service or in-service trainee teacher or existing practitioner with a personal tutoring role, a specialised personal tutor, manager or anyone in a learner-facing role within further education.

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Book Synopsis Are you an effective mentor to your colleagues? Is mentoring in your school or college implemented, evaluated and embedded in a professional and sustainable way? Are you maximising the many benefits of good mentoring? This book is for you if you are a busy classroom teacher or school leader. It provides practical advice and helpful strategies in accessible bite-sized chunks that are brief and to the point. The ideas are illustrated with clear examples, showing how you can put your new-found skills and knowledge into practice day by day. Designed to be read over a week, the book is divided into seven concise chapters to help you become a more skilful and confident mentor.Table of ContentsIntroduction Day One – What is mentoring and how does it work? Day Two - Making mentoring work well – Paving the way, organizing & supporting Day Three – Building the right relationship & creating a safe space Day Four – Helping your mentee develop – Listening & Questioning Day Five – Helping your mentee develop – Further skills Day Six – Some common mentoring challenges and how to tackle them Day Seven – Is it working? – Evaluating success

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Book Synopsis Is your knowledge and understanding of systematic synthetic phonics secure? Do you understand the difference between graphemes and phonemes? Is your phonics teaching both engaging and interactive? Systematic synthetic phonics is central to the teaching of early reading and is a key element in Ofsted inspections. For your pupils, learning about phonics represents an integral part of their journey to becoming successful readers and writers. This book offers you tried and tested ideas for developing an understanding of phonics and the development of effective pedagogy. Designed to be read over a week, it is divided into seven concise chapters detailing clear strategies, examining the strategy in action and summarising the relevant underpinning theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction Day 1: Grapheme-phoneme correspondence Day 2: Blending and segmenting, decoding and encoding Day 3: Digraphs: vowel digraphs, consonant digraphs, split digraphs, long vowel digraphs. Day 4: Teaching “tricky” or common exception words Day 5: Systematic teaching: planning lessons and series of lessons Day 6: Phonics and spelling Day 7: Phonics at KS2 Further reading

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Book SynopsisIf you are embarking on a university-based education degree, including initial teacher training, the books in this series will help you acquire and develop the knowledge, skills and strategies you need to achieve your goals. They provide support in all areas important for university study, including institutional and disciplinary policy and practice, self-management, and research and communication. Tasks and activities are designed to foster aspects of learning which are valued in higher education, including learner autonomy and critical thinking, and to guide you towards reflective practice in your study and work life. Academic Writing and Referencing for your Education Degree provides you with a sound knowledge and understanding of: what constitutes good academic writing in education a range of strategies for writing successful essays and reports the importance of clarity and coherence in your writing about education how to improve your academic style, grammar and punctuation, and formatting and presentation referencing conventions in the field of education, and of how to avoid plagiarism. Table of Contents Academic writing: text, process and criticality Coherent texts and arguments Referring to sources Language in use Preparing your work for submission

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Book SynopsisCritical Thinking Skills for your Education Degree provides you with a sound knowledge and understanding of: the nature of critical thinking, and its relevance and importance in HE how to adopt a critical approach to all aspects of your studies within education the importance of active, critical reading, and how it allows you an efficient, principled, effective assessment of the literature in your field the need to adopt a critical approach to writing, characterised by analytical and evaluative use of sources and the development of your own ‘voice’ If you are embarking on a university education or teaching degree, the books in this series will help you acquire and develop the knowledge, skills and strategies you need to achieve your goals. They provide support in all areas important for university study, including institutional and disciplinary policy and practice, self-management, and research and communication. Tasks and activities are designed to foster aspects of learning which are valued in higher education, including learner autonomy and critical thinking, and to guide you towards reflective practice in your study and work life. Table of Contents Foundations of critical thinking Reflective practice and critical thinking Critical reading Critical writing

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Book SynopsisETpedia Teacher Training provides both new and more experienced teacher trainers working in a variety of different contexts with pointers, ideas and activities for supporting both pre- and in-service teachers. Each unit of 10 tips is easy to use and will aid or inspire you whether you are dipping in for a quick idea or looking for more comprehensive guidance. Here are 10 reasons to use it as part of your teacher training practice: 1. Learn more about the different aspects of a teacher trainer's role 2. Get support with making the transition from teacher to trainer 3. Make your training more engaging 4. Get inspiration for preparing input sessions 5. Recap techniques and activities you haven't used in a while 6. Supplement your repertoire with fresh new ideas 7. Develop your mentoring skills 8. Use alternative approaches to observation 9. Fine-tune your feedback skills 10. Integrate online training techniques

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Book SynopsisThis book provides teacher educators with an understanding of the issues around mathematics anxiety and a framework of teaching strategies to support undergraduates, trainee teachers and established professionals in primary settings in developing confidence in learning and teaching mathematics. The existence of mathematics anxiety in adults is both prevalent and well documented, and there is a real concern that adults who are anxious or lacking in confidence in their own mathematical ability may affect the quality of teaching and learning for those in their care. Research has identified that there are lower levels of mathematical confidence in adults working with children in primary rather than secondary schools, and that where adults are anxious this can be passed on to the pupils with whom they work. This book addresses issues related to the effect that mathematics anxiety has on those teaching and working with primary aged children and supports teacher educators to develop confidence in both trainee teachers and established professionals.Trade ReviewAdults often have a love-hate relationship with mathematics like marmite- but those feelings come from previous success or failure with the subject. Karen tackles those with less than positive concerns about the subject head-on. Karen Wicks has produced a thorough review of the issues around mathematics anxiety for adult learners’ intent on teaching. This carefully structured text will be helpful for anyone teaching mathematics to initial teacher training students.... -- Mary Briggs, Oxford Brookes UniversityThis is an excellent, well-theorised and practical book that is written with precision and clarity by a highly experienced teacher-educator who is well-versed in supporting pre-service, and more experienced, teachers to overcome any feelings of anxiety they may have about mathematics. She draws on her own research, as well as that of significant others in the field, to discuss reasons why many people experience anxiety in this area, and potential effects on pupils’ learning when teachers are anxious. The author sets out a range of practical strategies that can support teacher-educators to enable pre-service, and other, teachers to overcome mathematics-related anxiety and know how to teach their pupils from an assured, well-informed position so that they can inspire self-belief in their own pupils as confident learners of mathematics. -- Janice Wearmouth, Professor of Education, University of BedfordshireTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Mathematics anxiety: what is it and why it exists 2. Theoretical considerations for addressing mathematics anxiety 3. Introducing a teaching and learning framework 4 The role of the teacher: teacher characteristics 5. The role of the teacher: teaching strategies 6. The role of the learner 7. Conclusion and considerations Index

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Book SynopsisLearning to be a primary teacher can feel like trying to become a superhero! The new edition of this book will help you harness your superpowers to become that heroic individual, looked up to by your class, able to be simultaneously fun, authoritative, inspiring, responsive to a range of needs and an expert in all subjects! Rooted in the core content framework and informed by the early career framework and new Ofsted inspection framework, it will ensure you are fully equipped to: tackle planning and assessment with ease champion positive behaviour master curriculum sequencing build composite subject knowledge and understanding challenge and apply theory and research maximise your emotional strength and resilience stand tall as a professional promote diversity, inclusion and social justice and, most importantly, protect and nurture the children in your care. "Highly recommended for all trainees, Early Career Teachers and mentors - this book is packed full of wise advice on building professional knowledge about what is required to excel at meeting the expectations of both the DfE Teachers' Standards and the Early Career Framework. Not to be missed." Dame Alison Peacock, CEO of the Chartered College of Teaching Trade Review"Highly recommended for all trainees, Early Career Teachers and mentors - this book is packed full of wise advice on building professional knowledge about what is required to excel at meeting the expectations of both the DfE Teachers' Standards and the Early Career Framework. Not to be missed." -- Dame Alison Peacock, CEO of the Chartered College of TeachingTable of ContentsIntroduction Evidence-based research in teaching Developing high expectations of your pupils How pupils learn Subject and curriculum knowledge Classroom practice Adaptive teaching Assessment for learning Supporting children’s behaviour Professional behaviours Becoming an Early Career Teacher Index

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Book SynopsisChallenges current adult-led approaches to working with vulnerable young people, and introduces practitioners and students to creative methods that will enhance the self-worth of children and teenagers. Anthropologist and social worker, Rachel Burr, outlines clear communication techniques for working with children and young people to support them towards self-determination. By critically examining the dominant approaches to children and young people’s mental health, she provides straightforward practical strategies that can be used to address emotional upset, loss, and aid recovery. There has never been a more pressing time to encourage young people and children to engage in methods that allow them to develop a new sense of self-worth and purpose. Whether you’re a professional already working with children, or a student studying for a child-related qualification, this strength-based approach will help you to help children and young people develop a stronger sense of self which can be taken forward and used independently.Trade Review"This is a warm and wise book, woven through with insights from the author’s 25 years’ experience of working with children and young people and a lifetime of reflection and study. Steeped in an in-depth knowledge of psychology, sociology, anthropology, social work and studies of children and young people’s mental health, it is grounded by vibrant and moving case studies and by the voices and experiences of young people themselves. Sympathy and understanding for young people permeate every page and Rachel Burr has managed to write a book which is academically rigorous and reassuring, helpful and truly valuable. It will appeal to parents, practitioners and to young people themselves." -- Professor Heather Montgomery * Professor of Anthropology and Childhood, The Open University *"This theoretically and experientially engaging and grounded book powerfully promotes the rightful status that children and young people must be afforded in contemporary society. Written by Dr Rachel Burr, whose professional values and behaviours demonstrably model the book's message - children and childhood matter -, it is a 'must read' for all concerned with the social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people." -- Gillian Ruch * Professor of Social Work, University of Sussex *“It is very rare for a child rights specialist to engage with therapeutic issues in working with children and young people; still more unusual to offer practical, accessible advice on groupwork with children and young people of all ages in a manner that is sensitive to institutional and systemic power dynamics…The detailed examples are especially useful, as well as the critical reflections…Rachel Burr brings together her unique skills and experience as a social worker, child therapist, and also international child rights researcher and anthropologist to provide a culturally and generationally-sensitive and practical guide for innovative support and developmental work with children and young people in a range of settings.” -- Erica Burma * Professor of Education, author of 'Deconstructing Developmental Psychology' and UKCP registered Group Analyst *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why now?: Chapter 1: The state of childhood today Chapter 2: Mental health and wellbeing Chapter 3: Current approaches to mental health support for children and young people Chapter 4: A new way of thinking Chapter 5: Learning from children and young people Chapter 6: Young children speak out Chapter 7: It takes more than a mantra Conclusion: The long and winding road

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Book SynopsisAs Ofsted introduces a new framework with higher expectations regarding subject knowledge across the primary curriculum, there has never been a more important time for trainees to secure their subject knowledge and improve confidence. This book aims to help early career teachers in teaching primary foundation subjects. This is another text for the Essential Guides for Early Career teachers series and it provides ECT's and their mentors with the right tools for teaching primary foundation subjects, improving their subject knowledge and building understanding. It ensures that relevant theory and research are woven together with real classroom experience. It links to key readings, resources and online sources which will allow trainees to continue their own learning and encourage independent study through the use of reflective exercises and practical tasks to ensure the delivery of the best possible teaching. A text like this is needed more than ever as the Ofsted framework for ITT is explicit in highlighting subject knowledge as being a key component to successful teaching. This book, therefore, covers the kind of topics that ECT's might at first struggle with from art and design, to computing and IT to languages like French and German. This book breaks down each subject and points trainees in the direction of resources, support and best practice.Trade Review"This is an essential text for anyone training to teach in the primary school, or who has recently qualified. It's the book everyone wishes they had when they started out on their teaching career. James presents a refreshingly honest and supportive insight into teaching the foundation subjects. His passion for these subjects is infectious. The more you read, the more excited you will become about jumping into the curriculum and exploring it alongside your curious young learners. It doesn’t matter if you’re just starting out and have very little knowledge of teaching the foundation subjects. The eight engaging and accessible chapters in this book will guide you through with helpful tips from experienced teachers and mentors. Keep this book close by, it will be like having an additional mentor with you whenever you need it." -- Dr Vicky Randall * Senior Fellow in Teacher Education, University of Winchester *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 - Why foundation subjects? Chapter 2 - Jack of all trades? Foundation Subject knowledge for teachers Chapter 3 - Subject knowledge for pupils Chapter 4 - Making an impact: understanding subject concepts Chapter 5 - Finding time -how to plan foundation subjects Chapter 6 - Explicitly making links: cross-curricular approaches Chapter 7 – Less but better Chapter 8 - What comes next and where to find support

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Book SynopsisThis book is for teachers and learning about using coaching skills and practices with children and young people, colleagues, parents, and the wider school community. Research into the area of ''coaching in schools'' is still relatively new however, the practice of coaching in schools has been evolving over several decades. This book gives insights into what coaching can look like in schools and is supported by the sharing of experiences by teachers from around the world. It is a book for teachers by teachers, who share how they have used coaching in their classrooms and what they have noticed because of doing so. It is a collation of ideas around the use of coaching approaches and practices in schools for professional and personal development.Through reading this book and trying some of the ideas you will be able to: Further your understanding of self, both personally and professionally. Develop coaching practices that support the development of relationships with learners, colleagues, and families. Expand your toolbox of strategies to engage children and young people in their learning through using different coaching skills. Develop knowledge of ways to introduce coaching practices and coaching cultures into your classroom, school, and your life.

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Book SynopsisThe curriculum is the driving force for excellent teaching and learning in any school. Yet, in primary schools, the curriculum is often led by class teachers who have little or no time to give to this vital part of their role. Subject leaders have the potential to rapidly improve the way a curriculum is taught, but the challenges they face can seem insurmountable.The Practical Guide to Getting Subject Leaders to THRIVE! tackles these issues head-on with a framework rooted in educational research. Sebastian Olway's six-step THRIVE framework provides school leaders with a structure to support subject leaders and unlock their potential. The framework can also be used to guide an impactful series of professional development meetings, or to offer strategies, tips and resources for individual subject leaders.Whether you're a primary school headteacher, a senior leader, an experienced subject leader or brand new to the role, this book will help your school to THRIVE!Trade ReviewSebastian Olway offers an insightful narrative as to the trials and tribulations, and the joys and highlights, likely to be experienced by subject leaders and those with whom they interact. This book challenges conventional thought and practice, and offers advice, techniques, strategies and ideas, all through the various lenses of headteacher, SLT, subject leader and teacher. There is a delightful synergy between the theoretical concepts discussed and the real-world application and contexts, delivered through the templates, activities and reflective elements within each chapter. This allows the reader a chance to immerse themselves and to THRIVE - the whole premise and the heart of the narrative throughout.The beauty of this book is that it's written by a practitioner, for practitioners, with practitioners in mind throughout, and there's something for everyone, whether you're new to subject leadership or have been living and breathing the role for decades. Sebastian understands (and still lives) the pressures on classroom teachers, subject leaders and SLT members, and the book is structured in such a way that content is accessible and simple to implement. This is essential in the current context of teaching, where time is such a precious commodity. A must-read for those involved in the wonderful pursuit that is primary school teaching! * Richard Poole, deputy head of school (School of Education, Languages and Linguistics), University of Portsmouth *The Practical Guide to Getting Subject Leaders to THRIVE! is an indispensable resource for school leaders looking to enhance the performance of their subject leaders and elevate the overall quality of teaching and learning within their school. With nearly a decade of experience as a school leader, I've witnessed the transformative effects that effective subject leadership can bring about. Sebastian Olway not only recognises this crucial role but also furnishes leaders with a comprehensive framework to ensure their subject leaders thrive.Structured in an accessible and informative manner, the book introduces the THRIVE model, a six-fold guide encompassing time, leadership strategies, relationship-building, investment, vision, and engagement. Each aspect of this structure is thoughtfully explored, providing leaders with the tools they need to support and empower their subject leaders effectively. One of the strengths of this book is the wealth of practical content it offers. It includes invaluable resources like real-world examples, illuminating case studies, handy checklists, customisable templates and references to further reading materials. These resources are strategically placed throughout the book, serving as practical aids and insightful guides to help leaders implement the THRIVE model effectively. * David Parkin FCCT *

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Book SynopsisThis highly-readable book addresses how to teach effective communication in science. The first part of the book provides accessible context and theory about communicating science well, and is written by experts. The second part focuses on the practice of teaching communication in science, with ‘nuts and bolts’ lesson plans direct from the pens of practitioners. The book includes over 50 practice chapters, each focusing on one or more short teaching activities to target a specific aspect of communication, such as writing, speaking and listening. Implementing the activities is made easy with class run sheets, tips and tricks for instructors, signposts to related exercises and theory chapters, and further resources. Theory chapters help build instructor confidence and knowledge on the topic of communicating science. The teaching exercises can be used with science students at all levels of education in any discipline and curriculum – the only limitation is a wish to learn to communicate better! Targeted at science faculty members, this book aims to improve and enrich communication teaching within the science curriculum, so that science graduates can communicate better as professionals in their discipline and future workplace.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book helps teachers understand the links between cooperative learning (also known as collaborative learning and peer learning) and other student-centered approaches. It discusses cooperative learning and communities of practice; cooperative learning and neuroscience; cooperative learning and critical thinking; cooperative learning and alternative assessment; cooperative learning and multiple intelligence; cooperative learning and positive education; cooperative learning and meeting the needs of introverts; and cooperative learning and justice issues, with each chapter exploring a different aspect of how education can be student centered.If you are looking for a fresh perspective on cooperative learning, this book is for you. It helps you explore how cooperative learning is so much more than just asking students to arrange themselves in a group, and considers how cooperative learning can fit with other areas of education that you care about. Although the two authors both completed their PhDs in the West, they have taught in Asia for the past 25+ years, working with students and teachers from a wide variety of Asian and other countries, and with teachers from a very wide variety of content areas who teach students of many different ages.Table of Contents1 Student Centered Cooperative Learning: An Introduction.- 2 Communities in Support of Learning.- 3 Neuroscience and What it tells us about Education.- 4 Thinking Skills.- 5 Alternative Assessment.- 6 Personality Variation: The case of introversion, ambiversion, and extroversion.- 7 Multiple Intelligences.- 8 Positive Education: A new way to look at learning.- 9 Justice: How education can promote it.- 10 Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisAuthor Jeff Anderson and bilingual teacher and coach Caroline Sweet lead a vibrant approach to grammar instruction in Patterns of Power en español, Grades 1-5: Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish. Here, young, emergent writers are invited to notice the conventions of the Spanish language and build off them in this inquiry-based approach to instructional grammar. The book comes with standards-aligned lessons that can be incorporated in just 10 minutes a day. Patterns of Power’s responsive, invitational approach puts students in an involved role and has them explore and discuss the purpose and meaning of what they read. Students study short, authentic texts and are asked to share their findings out loud, engaging in rich conversations to make meaning. Inside you’ll find: Ready-to-use lesson plan sets that include excerpts from authentic and diverse Spanish mentor texts curated for grades 1-5 and can be adapted over 5 grade levels Real-life classroom examples, tips, and Power Notes gleaned from the authors’ experiences that can be applied to any level of writer Resources, including a Patterns of Power Planning Guide adapted for Spanish, to use in classroom instruction or as handouts for student literacy notebooks How to correlate to Spanish TEKS, Common Core, and other state standards Patterns of Power en español, Grades 1-5 provides a simple classroom routine that is structured in length and approach, but provides teachers flexibility in choosing the texts, allowing for numerous, diverse voices in the classroom. The practice helps students build cognitive recognition and provides a formative assessment for teachers on student progress. With these short lessons, students will gain confidence and move beyond limitation to produce effortless writing in your class and beyond. The Patterns of Power series also includes Patterns of Power, Grades 6-8: Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language; Patterns of Power, Grades 1-5: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language; Patterns of Power, Grades 9-12: Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing; and Patterns of Wonder, Grades PreK-1: Inviting Emergent Writers to Play with the Conventions of Language.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Getting Started with the Patterns-of-Power Process; Into the Lessons; 2: What Do Capital Letters Do?; 3: What Do Nouns Do?; 4: What Do Verbs Do?; 5: What Do End Marks Do?; 6: What Do Pronouns Do?; 7: How Do Verbs and Nouns Agree?; 8: How Do Writers Use Dialogue and Parentheses?; 9: What Do Adjectives Do?; 10: What Do Adverbs Do?; 11: What Do Prepositions Do?; 12: What Do Conjunctions Do?; 13: Why Do Writers Use Compound Sentences?; 14: Why Do Writers Use the Serial Comma?; 15: Why Do Writers Use Complex Sentences?

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Book SynopsisYou Got This! is the ultimate guide to succeeding as an early career teacher. Whether you’re searching for your first teaching job, meeting your new class or preparing for your first parents’ evening, this book is full of advice and support to show you the ropes and lend a hand when you feel unsure. Covering all aspects of the Early Career Framework, it’s the perfect guide to thriving in the initial stages of your career. Andrew Taylor, aka Mr T, is an experienced teacher and ECT mentor who manages the popular Twitter account @MrTs_NQTs. This book condenses years of mentorship and coaching to address the key areas that early career teachers ask about, including: - interviewing for your first position - meeting the needs of all pupils - preparing for statutory assessments - building positive relationships with teachers, TAs and parents - self-care, managing workload and setting career goals. With daily tips, coaching questions and case studies with real ECTs, this book will ensure success from the very start and help you remember that no matter the hurdles, you got this! You Got This! was Highly Commended in the CPD category at the Teach Secondary Awards 2023.Trade ReviewA truly wonderful read. Guiding you through every step of being an ECT with relevant and clear information, it is like having a mentor by your side every step of the way! -- Paige Brown * Class Teacher @MissPABrown *A wonderfully uplifting yet thoroughly practical and indispensable resource for every new teacher. Highly recommended. * Dame Alison Peacock, Chief Executive Chartered College of Teaching @alisonmpeacock *You Got This! includes plenty of practical advice, anecdotes and stories from other ECTs. A great book to have to hand during your first few years in teaching! * Sue Cowley, Author, presenter and teacher educator, @Sue_Cowley *This is the perfect book for any ECT. It is full of useful advice, tips and links that will support you through your ECT years and no doubt beyond! The coaching moments invite a time to pause to engage in reflection which is so important but often forgotten. * Catherine Carden, Staff Tutor; School of Education, Childhood, Youth & Sport at The Open University, Independent Education Consultant & Co-Founder Bowden Education, @catliscar *This will be a really useful book for anyone embarking on their teaching career... within each chapter there is a wealth of advice to help and support the reader. * The School Librarian *

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Book SynopsisIn the thoroughly revised second edition of Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There, H. Richard Milner IV addresses the knowledge and insights required on the part of teachers and school leaders to serve students of color. Milner focuses on a crucial issue in teacher training and professional education: the need to prepare teachers for the racially diverse student populations in their classrooms. The book, anchored in real world experiences, centers on case studies that exemplify the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities facing teachers in diverse classrooms. The case studies- of teachers in urban and suburban settings- are presented amid current discussions about race and teaching. In addition, the second edition includes a new chapter dedicated to opportunity gaps in education and an expanded discussion of how Opportunity Centered Teaching can address these gaps.Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There strives to help educators in the fight for social justice, equity, inclusion, and transformation for all students. It is a book urgently needed in today's increasingly diverse classrooms.

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Book SynopsisTeaching to Change the World is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, social justice-oriented introduction to education and teaching, and the challenges and opportunities they present. Both foundational and practical, the chapters are organized around conventional topics but in a way that consistently integrates a coherent story that explains why schools are as they are. Taking the position that a hopeful, democratic future depends on ensuring that all students learn, the text pays particular attention to inequalities associated with race, social class, language, gender, and other social categories and explores teachers' role in addressing them. This thoroughly revised fifth edition remains a vital introduction to the profession for a new generation of teachers who seek to become purposeful, knowledgeable practitioners in our ever-changing educational landscapefor those teachers who see the potential for education to change the world. Features and Updates of the New Trade Review'Teaching to Change the World is the perfect text for new teachers. It is squarely realistic while also inviting; it is information-packed and at the same time engaging. Teaching to Change the World makes me think of jazz – it is multivocal, it highlights classroom improvisation, and it is bound together with a deep rhythm of equity, justice, research, and democracy.'—Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita California State University Monterey Bay'It is rare to find a book that deals so elegantly with the historical, social, philosophical and legal foundations of schooling while also providing tangible strategies for developing exemplary curriculum and instruction and for connecting learning in schools to families, communities, and civic engagement. Oakes, Lipton, Anderson and Stillman’s thoughtful illumination of the "hopeful struggle" is ideal for teachers and school leaders who refuse to choose between their commitments to social justice and academic excellence.'—Ernest Morrell, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsList of Figures, Concept Tables, and Focal Points Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Democracy, Diversity, and Inequity 1. The U.S. Schooling Dilemma: Diversity, Inequity, and Democratic Values 2. History and Culture: How Expanding Expectations and Powerful Ideologies Shape Schooling in the United States 3. Politics and Philosophy: The Struggle over the School Curriculum 4. Policy and Law: Rules That Schools Live By Part II: The Practice of Teaching to Change the World 5. The Subject Matters: Constructing Knowledge Across the Content Areas 6. Instruction: Teaching and Learning Across the Content Areas 7. Assessment: Measuring What Matters 8. Classrooms as Communities: Developing Caring and Democratic Relationships Part III: The Context of Teaching to Change the World 9. The School Culture: Where Good Teaching Makes Sense 10. School Structure: Sorting Students and Opportunities to Learn 11. The Community: Engaging with Families and Neighborhoods 12. Teaching to Change the World: A Profession and a Hopeful Struggle Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTeacher research is an extension of good teaching, observing students closely, analyzing their needs, and adjusting the curriculum to fit the needs of all. In this completely updated second edition of their definitive work, Ruth Shagoury and Brenda Miller Power present a framework for teacher research along with an extensive collection of narratives from teachers engaged in the process of designing and carrying out research projects to inform their instruction. This edition includes a greater variety of short contributions from a wide range of teacher-researchers -- novices and veterans from all backgrounds and parts of the country -- who speak to the growing diversity in today' s classrooms. Threaded throughout the chapters and narratives is a discussion of the emergence of digital tools and their effect on both teaching and the research process, along with an expanded number of research designs. The book has three primary components: 1.Chapters written by the authors explaining key elements of the research process: finding questions, designing projects, data collection and analysis, and more 2.Research activities that enable readers to try out the featured strategies and techniques 3.Teacher-researcher essays in which teachers share details of completed projects and discuss the impact they have had in their classrooms. Living the Questions, Second Edition: A Guide for Teacher-Researchers will take you step-by-step through the process of designing, implementing, and publishing your research. Along the way, it will introduce you to dozens of kindred spirits who are finding new passion for teaching by living the questions every day in their classrooms. You will be reminded of why you became a teacher yourself.Table of Contents1: Why Teacher Research?; 2: Questions Evolving; 3: Research Designs; 4: Harvesting Data; 5: What Likes What? Data Analysis; 6: Citing a Tea Bag: When Researchers Read; 7: Honest Labor: Writing Up Research; Sustaining Research: Building and Extending Research Communities; Epilogue Why Not Teacher Research?

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Book SynopsisTimely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of English language arts standards. It demonstrates how the Common Core State Standards as well as other local and national standards' highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research. The third edition frames ELA instruction around adopting a justice, inquiry, and action approach that supports students in their schools and community contexts. Offering new ways to respond to current issues and events, the text provides specific examples of teachers employing the justice, inquiry, and action curriculum framework to promote critical engagement and learning. Chapters cover common problems and challenges, alternative models, and theories of language arts teachiTrade Review"Teaching to Exceed—the book and wiki website—explores everything a new ELA teacher needs to know about lesson and unit planning focused on reading, writing, drama, language, multimedia, and poetry. It does so in ways that are of consequence by engaging with larger contextual and political factors like the Black Lives Matter movement, a global pandemic, and climate change. Ultimately it is its comprehensiveness combined with its commitment to racial, linguistic, and class diversity, as it takes shape in its justice, inquiry, and action framework, that makes this book stand out among resources for preservice ELA teachers." —Mollie Blackburn, The Ohio State University, USA"This timely and thoughtful new edition provides a strong foundation for excellence in today’s ELA classrooms for pre-service and in-service teachers. It combines the best of what we have learned in the field about implementing standards-driven pedagogy with innovative new directions, including the use of digital tools, promoting a justice and inquiry framework, adding supports for multilingual learners and much more. It is a must-have resource for English educators"—Ernest Morrell, University of Notre Dame, USA"Teaching to Exceed—the book and wiki website—explores everything a new ELA teacher needs to know about lesson and unit planning focused on reading, writing, drama, language, multimedia, and poetry. It does so in ways that are of consequence by engaging with larger contextual and political factors like the Black Lives Matter movement, a global pandemic, and climate change. Ultimately it is its comprehensiveness combined with its commitment to racial, linguistic, and class diversity, as it takes shape in its justice, inquiry, and action framework, that makes this book stand out among resources for preservice ELA teachers." —Mollie Blackburn, The Ohio State University, USA"This timely and thoughtful new edition provides a strong foundation for excellence in today’s ELA classrooms for pre-service and in-service teachers. It combines the best of what we have learned in the field about implementing standards-driven pedagogy with innovative new directions, including the use of digital tools, promoting a justice and inquiry framework, adding supports for multilingual learners and much more. It is a must-have resource for English educators"—Ernest Morrell, University of Notre Dame, USATable of ContentsSection I. Theoretical Frameworks/foundations of English Language Arts Instruction1. Justice, Inquiry, Action2. Planning English Language Arts Instruction3. Contexts, Standards, and Teacher FreedomSection II. Implementing and Exceeding the ELA State Standards 4. Teaching Literature5. Teaching Nonfiction6. Teaching Writing 7. Writing and Enacting Narratives, Drama, and Poetry8. Implementing Digital/Media Literacy Standards9. Implementing Speaking and Listening Standards10. Implementing Language StandardsSection III: Evaluation, Assessment, and Reflection12. Assessing Students’ Work13. Fostering Teacher Reflection and Professional Development

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Book SynopsisNonfiction writing is important in a student's school life and it is important a skill that they will use throughout their lives. The majority of our daily reading and writing experience is made up of nonfiction, and students are writing nonfiction long before they are taught how to do it in the classroom. They need to recognize that writing nonfiction is far more than the traditional descriptive reports about animals. The principles of nonfiction writing apply to all student writing, even the tweets, texts, and blogs they compose.The writer's intent is the underlying foundation of Nonfiction Writing Power. Building on Adrienne Gear's Reading Power books, this valuable addition to her highly successful books addresses the close link between reader and writer. This remarkable book shows teachers how to help students recognize that they write because they have something to say. It argues that writing nonfiction well means considering the writer's intent and purpose, and choosing the most appropriate form among the various nonfiction genres.Nonfiction Writing Power is designed to help teachers develop a writing program that focuses on the different forms of nonfiction. This practical book helps teachers work with students to explore the Power to Describe the Power to Instruct the Power to Compare the Power to Persuade the Power to Explain the Power to Report Ideal support for teaching writing in the content areas, the book includes ways that a particular form can link to science, social studies, and other subject areas.

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Book SynopsisThis book will introduce fourteen of the most important soft skills in the field of education. It will explain how each skill is used in teaching as well as ideas for how to model and explain them in college classrooms, field experiences, and student teaching. The chapters also contain ideas for administrators and mentor teachers who are working with beginning teachers. Hopefully, by learning the soft skills of teaching, pre-service education students and beginning teachers will become successful instructors and models of good citizenship in future classrooms.Trade ReviewTeaching Soft Skills in a Hard World: Skills for Beginning Teachers is a timely addition to the resources available to teacher educators. It addresses the development of skills that, while important, have received little attention to date. It’s easy to use within any teacher education class as each chapter provides background information relative to each skill, and follows with practical ways to model and teach the skills to preservice teachers. The classroom-based examples within the descriptions of the skills are practical, and demonstrate the content is informed directly by the author’s many years of experience working in classrooms with teacher education candidates. This book would be useful for any university faculty, administrator or new teacher. As Nancy writes, “Teachers who work to make content meaningful to students and discover innovative ways to teach them, are those that students love to be around.” The same could be said of the professors who decide to dedicate time to introduce the skills presented in this book. -- S. Michael Putman, professor, UNC CharlotteIn this book, Dr. Melser captures the essence of fourteen important soft skills effective teachers need to be able to know and do—whether they are novice or veteran teachers. In this well organized and easy to read book, the author provides some down-to-earth practical ideas and activities that professors can use in helping their preservice teachers learn these important soft skills. Principals and supervisors could effectively use this book in providing clinical assistance to their teachers who need assistance in improving skills in such areas as communicating with parents, being more collaborative and professional, effective decision making, and developing a better work ethic. Each chapter is filled with time-tested and proven activities that builds the essential soft skills teachers need to be effective. -- John E. Jacobson, professor of education and literacy, Ball State UniversityTeaching Soft Skills in a Hard World is essential reading for anyone preparing today’s teachers. The critical soft skills necessary to be a successful teacher are detailed, but the author doesn’t stop there. The real value of this book is that every chapter is also filled with concrete suggestions to model and practice each of these essential skills. -- Janet Buckenmeyer, dean and professor, Bayh College of EducationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1- Communication Skills Chapter 2- Confidence Chapter 3- Enthusiasm Chapter 4- Creativity Chapter 5- Decision Making Skills Chapter 6- Teamwork and Collaboration Chapter 7- Stress Management Chapter 8- Positive Attitude Chapter 9- Adaptability/ Flexibility Chapter 10- Time Management Chapter 11- Organization Chapter 12- Initiative Chapter 13- Professionalism Chapter 14- Work Ethic Conclusion Bibliography About the Author

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Book SynopsisScience teachers come in many varieties, but they share a common goal: to nurture learners. Scientists teamed with teachers and their students represent a very real and rich opportunity to involve students in real science as practiced.Trade Review`The broad spectrum of contributors and the innovative perspectives revealed in the case studies make this book an invaluable resource for teachers and an exemplary tool for students.' John F. `Kip' Perkins III, Ten Acre Country Day School, Wellesley, MA.Table of ContentsStudent Scientist Partnerships: Shrewd Maneuvers; R.F. Tinker. Earthwatch: Science Education Worldwide; R.A. Nixon. The GLOBE Program: A Model for International Environmental Education; B.N. Rock, et al. FeederWatch: Students and Scientists Working Together; R. Bonney, A. Dhondt. The Science That Happens Through Partnerships: Sun Photometer Atmospheric Network (SPAN); F.M. Mims, III. The Aquanaut Program; I.G. Babb, et al. Mars Exploration: Students and Scientists Working Together; D. Bartow, C.M. Diarra. Validating Student Data for Scientific Use: An Example from the GLOBE Project; R.G. Congalton, M.L. Becker. Acquiring and Using Data in K-12 Education; A. Krueger, et al. Role of Technology in Student & Scientist Partnerships: Perspective from the National Science Foundation; M.P. Morse, N.H. Sabelli. Science Education as a Driver of Cyberspace Technology Development; R.D. Pea, et al. Image Processing: An Enabling Technology for Science Research: Teaching and Learning; R. Greenberg. Appendix: SSP Contact Directory. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe story of an academic discipline is usually conveyed in grand movements and long spans, but it can also be told through the lives of individual scholars, through the development of specialties, through the creation and change of departments, and through the formation and transformation of organizations. Using twelve histories of micro-dimensions of communication studies, this volume shows how sometimes small decisions, single scholars, individual departments, and marginalized voices can have dramatic roles in the history and future of an academic discipline. As a compilation of micro-histories with macro-lessons this volume stands alone in communication studies. Read as a companion to A Century of Communication Studies, the National Communication Associationâs centennial volume, it offers rich detail, missing links, and local narratives that fully flesh out the discipline. In either case, no education in communication studies is complete without an understanding of the themes, challenges, and triumphs embodied by the twelve micro-histories offered in this book. This book was originally published as two special issues of Review of Communication. Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Hundred Paths, a Shared Journey 1. A Well-Trained Tongue: The Origins of the Public Speaking Curriculum at the University of Minnesota, 1890-1910 2. Herbert A. Wichelns at the Discipline’s Centennial Mark: Re-Reading a Prospectus for Rhetoric As an Independent Discipline 3. Lambda Pi Eta: The Founding and Evolution of Communication’s Undergraduate Honor Society from a Systems Perspective 4. The Rhetoric of James J. Murphy: Continuity, Commitment, Community 5. Anonymity, Confidentiality, Privacy, and Identity: The Ties That Bind and Break in Communication Research 6. Narrative Theory and Criticism: An Overview Toward Clusters and Empathy 7. Exploring Organizational Communication (Micro) History Through Network Connections 8. Mapping a History of Applied Communication Research: Themes and Concepts in the Journal of Applied Communication Research 9. Forging a Path: Past and Present Scope of Critical Race Theory and Latina/o Critical Race Theory in Communication Studies 10. An LCSD & La Raza Microhistory: The Latina/o Communication Studies Division & La Raza Caucus of the National Communication Association 11. Experience Is the Best Teacher: the NCA Experiential Learning in Communication Division 12. Disciplining Communication Study at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 1973-2007

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Book SynopsisThe first self-care book designed specifically for the early childhood field, Culturally Responsive Self-Care Practices for Early Childhood Educators is filled with helpful strategies and tools that you can implement immediately.Recognizing that self-care is not one size fits all, the authors present culturally responsive strategies drawn from diverse early childhood staff working in a range of roles across communities and contexts. By tying the importance of educator self-care to goals of social justice and equity, this book advocates for increased awareness of the importance of self-care on both an individual and institutional level.Through key research findings, effective strategies and personal anecdotes, this accessible guide helps readers understand and engage with the critical role self-care and wellness-oriented practices play in creating strong foundations for high quality early learning programs.Trade Review"Rooted in a clear understanding of how systemic racism and oppression impacts one’s ability to prioritize and implement self-care, this book is a tremendous resource for early childhood professionals, and for anyone who wants to learn about self-care from a culturally responsive perspective. The accessible writing helps the reader understand and make personal and professional connections to very complex topics, and highlights culturally diverse self-care practices that the reader can explore to find what works for them. This book should be required reading for all early childhood professionals, because as the authors remind us, self-care is truly the foundation of equity in early childhood education."Takiema Bunche Smith, MPA, MS Ed, Executive Director at the Center on Culture, Race and Equity at Bank Street College"Caring for the self is the core requirement for caring for young children with love and grace. The authors of Culturally Responsive Self-Care Practices for Early Childhood Educators remind us what effective self-care and community wellness look like when grounded in a broader palette of cultural practices, traditions, and expressions. This guide is a must for making space for the care and feeding of the adults watching over our youngest minds. It honors authentic cultural expressions of wellness and self-care without othering, marginalizing, or stereotyping the different ways we take care of mind, body, and spirit." Zaretta Hammond, Author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the BrainTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Impact of Stress and Trauma in the Lives of Early Educators 2. Foundations of Culturally Responsive Self-Care 3. Building a Culturally Responsive Self-Care Toolbox 4. Case Studies: Applying Ideas Throughout the Book to Your Practice 5. Conclusion Resources References

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Book SynopsisA bullet dropped and a bullet fired from a gun will reach the ground at the same time. Plants get the majority of their mass from the air around them, not the soil beneath them. A smartphone is made from more elements than you. Every day, science teachers get the opportunity to blow studentsâ minds with counter-intuitive, crazy ideas like these. But getting students to understand and remember the science that explains these observations is complex. To help, this book explores how to plan and teach science lessons so that students and teachers are thinking about the right things â that is, the scientific ideas themselves. It introduces you to 13 powerful ideas of science that have the ability to transform how young people see themselves and the world around them. Each chapter tells the story of one powerful idea and how to teach it alongside examples and non-examples from biology, chemistry and physics to show what great science teaching might look like and why. Drawing on evidence about how students learn from cognitive science and research from science education, the book takes you on a journey of how to plan and teach science lessons so students acquire scientific ideas in meaningful ways. Emphasising the important relationship between curriculum, pedagogy and the subject itself, this exciting book will help you teach in a way that captivates and motivates students, allowing them to share in the delight and wonder of the explanatory power of science.Trade Review"Jasper Green’s book offers an antidote to the lack of vision which frames so many science curricula. Here you will find a fresh and innovative exploration of what it means to teach science. Drawing on much of the latest and best research and scholarship in education, it shows how these ideas can improve both the quality of student experience and their engagement with learning. The book reveals the nature of the complex challenge that it is to teach science. As such it should be essential reading for all teachers of science". - Jonathan Osborne, Kamalachari Professor of Science Education, Emeritus, Stanford University, US. "This is a beautifully structured book which explains some of the big ideas of science together with the best pedagogical strategies for teaching them. It is rich with examples, activities and practical applications of difficult concepts. And it is all about the challenge and the joy of making meaning, and how all our activities and tasks must work towards that goal." - Daisy Christodoulou MBE, Director of Education, No More Marking, UK. "Jasper Green’s book offers an antidote to the lack of vision which frames so many science curricula. Here you will find a fresh and innovative exploration of what it means to teach science. Drawing on much of the latest and best research and scholarship in education, it shows how these ideas can improve both the quality of student experience and their engagement with learning. The book reveals the nature of the complex challenge that it is to teach science. As such it should be essential reading for all teachers of science." –Jonathan Osborne, Kamalachari Professor of Science Education, Emeritus, Stanford University, US"This is a beautifully structured book which explains some of the big ideas of science together with the best pedagogical strategies for teaching them. It is rich with examples, activities and practical applications of difficult concepts. And it is all about the challenge and the joy of making meaning, and how all our activities and tasks must work towards that goal." –Daisy Christodoulou MBE, Director of Education, No More Marking, UKTable of ContentsSection 1: Aims for school science education: for who and for what? 1. Fallacies of science education 2. Powerful ideas of science 3. The nature of science and the rules of the game Section 2: The science of learning science 4. Why learning science is hard but wonderful 5. How we learn: A cognitive science perspective 6. Why motivation matters Section 3: Planning lessons with thinking in mind 7. Preparing to plan: Thinking about progression over time 8. Planning what to teach in the lesson 9. Planning how to teach it Section 4: Planning and teaching the phases of instruction 10. Rewind and success for all: Retrieval practice 11. Trigger interest and activate prior knowledge 12. Introducing new ideas: Explanations and models 13. Practice ideas to build understanding: Worked examples and deliberate practice 14. Apply and integrate to make and break connections Section 5: Responsive teaching 15. Making thinking visible so feedback can take place Conclusion: Time to reflect Lesson planning templates

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Book SynopsisThis fully updated fifth edition of Learning to Teach Physical Education in the Secondary School is a comprehensive, yet accessible guide for all student secondary physical education teachers. Practical and insightful advice is combined with theory and research to support you in developing as a student teacher.This core text is an ideal guide to support you in developing your knowledge for teaching, your basic teaching skills and your ability to reflect critically on what you are doing and why, enabling you to cope in a range of teaching situations. Including updated material to cover changes in policy and practice, curriculum and assessments, the fifth edition of this essential textbook focuses on: Starting and developing your teaching journey Planning, teaching and evaluating physical education lessons for effective pupil learning Looking beyond your teacher education. New chapters include Essential knowledge bases for teaching physical education Guidance on using digital technologies Health in the physical education lesson Written with university and school-based initial teacher education in mind, Learning to Teach Physical Education in the Secondary School is an essential source of support and guidance for all student physical education teachers embarking on the challenging journey of developing as an effective teacher. Trade ReviewPraise for previous editions: 'A wealth of advice on generic aspects of teaching and learning in Physical Education …The accessibility of the text, and constant reference to ways of adapting suggestions to different situations, make this book particularly "user-friendly" and suitable for student-teachers in diverse settings' – European Physical Education Review ‘Essential reading for teachers who pride themselves on being "critically reflective"' – Times Educational SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Starting out as a physical education teacher 2. Aims of physical education 3. Knowledge bases for teaching physical education 4. Exploring and understanding your own experiences and beliefs as a physical education teacher 5. Long- and medium-term planning in physical education 6. Short-term (lesson) planning in physical education: How planning and evaluation supports effective learning and teaching 7. Lesson organisation and management 8. Designing teaching approaches to achieve intended learning outcomes 9. Assessment for and of learning in physical education 10. Developing and maintaining an effective learning environment 11. Motivating pupils for learning in physical education 12. Planning for an inclusive approach to learning and teaching 13. Health in Physical Education 14. Learner-centred teaching: A physical literacy perspective 15. Observation in Physical Education 16. Communication in physical education 17. Teaching safely and safety in physical education 18. Using digital technologies to support learning in physical education 19. Accredited qualifications and principles of classroom teaching 20. Teacher as a reflexive practitioner/researcher 21. Beyond your teacher education 22. Physical Literacy: Learning from pupils’ physical literacy journeys

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Book SynopsisSchool-Based Behavioral Intervention Case Studies translates principles of behavior into best practices for school psychologists, teachers, and other educational professionals, both in training and in practice. Using detailed case studies illustrating evidence-based interventions, each chapter describes all the necessary elements of effective behavior intervention plans including rich descriptions of target behaviors, detailed intervention protocols, data collection and analysis methods, and tips for ensuring social acceptability and treatment integrity. Addressing a wide array of common behavior problems, this unique and invaluable resource offers real-world examples of intervention and assessment strategies. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Differential Reinforcement 3. Token Economy 4. Time-Out 5. Premack's Principle and Visual Schedules 6. Video Modeling 7. Behavioral Skills Training and Positive Practice 8. Behavioral Momentum 9. Response Effort and Overcorrection 10. Response Cost Raffle and Mystery Motivator 11. Self-Monitoring 12. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 13. Exposure Therapy 14. Behavioral Activation 15. Good Behavior Game 16. Timely Transitions Game 17. Positive Peer Reporting 18. Color Wheel 19. Check-In Check-Out/Behavior Report Card 20. Social StoriesTM 21. Functional Analysis

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Book SynopsisThis valuable and accessible guide navigates school leaders and those in training through a number of key areas of inclusion, providing context and understanding, helpful definitions, examples of leadership in action, and ten essential principles of inclusive leadership. Inclusion: A Principled Guide for School Leaders discusses what a culture of inclusion should look like: in classes, in schools, and in the education sector more widely. Each chapter acts as a think piece to stimulate debate, to reflect upon the purpose of education, and to ask how far we have come in embracing inclusion. The book also offers suggested actions for principled leaders and illustrative case studies to bring the theory to life, taken from a range of schools and spanning a wide number of topics, including: Inclusive Learning Partnerships with Learners and Families Special Educational Needs Disadvantage and Socio-Economic Poverty Culture, Language and Ethnicity This book explores a variety of issues in inclusion, highlighting the implications for school leaders and offering an approach to develop learning for marginal groups through effective strategic leadership. It will be essential reading for SENCOs, middle and senior leaders, but equally of interest to those who aspire to be inclusive leaders of the future.Trade Review"This book is a must read for all school leaders, regardless of role, precisely because the inclusive approach taken means it is written with the needs of all in mind but also for the collective responsibility approach that is promoted. It effectively bridges theory and practice and brings important research evidence into the discussion in an accessible and actionable way."Professor Samantha Twiselton, Director of Sheffield Institute of Education"Timely, astute and honest this book comes at a time when expectations of inclusion and its proponents have never been greater or more diverse. As leading thinkers of inclusion, Crossley and Hewitt have captured the temperature of inclusion across our education system and beyond. The book provides an overview of the roots, development and practice of inclusion which will inspire teachers, leaders and families of pupils who are most in need of being included."Chris Rossiter, CEO of the Driver Youth Trust"This important new book draws on a rich basis of knowledge and research to deliver actionable guidance for the busy education professional. Bridging the divide between theory and practice, this book provides a much needed framework to support the needs of all children, not by seeking to treat them the same way but by recognising and actively accommodating difference. This is a must read for those who aspire to deliver greater inclusion in schools."Fiona Spellman, CEO of SHINE: Support and Help IN EducationTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: Inclusion and Inclusive Values 3: Inclusive Leaders in Schools 4: Leadership and Management for the Inclusion of all Learners 5: Inclusive Learning and Teaching 6: Inclusive Partnerships: Learners, Parents and Families 7: Inclusion and SEND 8: Inclusion and Socio-Economic Disadvantage 9: Inclusion: Culture, Language and Ethnicity 10: Inclusion and the More Able 11: The Way Forward – Principle-Directed Leadership for Inclusion

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Book SynopsisCombining expert knowledge, experience and reflections from senior leaders to distil collective leadership experiences, this book explores the realities of leadership at universities rather than the imagined and often-unrealistic expectations and perceptions of how leaders should act. This key text is an informed insider's guide to leadership transitions that will assist talented individuals in considering whether to apply for, how to prepare for and how to take on the task of leading a university. The collection of leadership experiences provided will help universities to be more successful, students to have great educational experiences and staff at all levels to have more-fulfilling working environments. It will also consider how to avoid the emotional pain and suffering that can arise when leaders find themselves poorly equipped, unprepared, unable or unwilling to provide the sound and competent leadership that universities deserve.Centred on the practice and experience oTrade Review"There aren’t that many people who aspire to be Vice-Chancellors and even fewer who actually succeed in being appointed. This is an excellent book for those seeking appointment but also for those who make it to the top. Whilst it is presented as a handbook for aspiring and current VCs I do think there is also much of value in here for other senior leaders too. The book draws on the wide and deep experience of the authors in university leadership development which is usefully supplemented by a number of first hand accounts from current and previous Vice-Chancellors. It’s a comprehensive survey ranging from an exploration of the role and characteristics of VCs to how individuals end up getting themselves appointed to such positions." - Paul Greatix, Association of Heads of University AdministrationTable of ContentsPART 1: SETTING THE TRAJECTORY 1. Transitions: Concepts connections, challenges 2. Understanding the Role: The delicate balancing act 3. Understanding the Environment: Context and culture 4. ‘Being there’ and routes to ‘there’: Patterns and pathways 5. Undertaking the Journey Up: Motivations and making the cut PART 2: LEADING THE UNIVERSITY 6. Early Days: Surprises and sense-making 7. Senior Leadership Teams: It’s more than you 8. Working on the Agenda: Do strategy and planning really matter? 9. Leading change: From ‘launch pad’ to ‘lift off’ 10. Leading in a Crisis: Don’t forget BC, get through DC, focus on AC 11. Leading Externally: Concepts and cases 12. You and the Role: Surviving and thriving 13. Staying there: Most do, some don’t 14. The art and science of baton passing: Exiting well PART 3: WE NEED TO CHANGE 15. Shaping new beginnings: When, what and how? 16. The Future: for universities, for the Head of University (HoU) role and for transitions 17. Integrated leadership transitions: Planning and action 18. Voices from the top: final reflections on the realities of leading

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Book SynopsisCombining expert knowledge, experience and reflections from senior leaders to distil collective leadership experiences, this book explores the realities of leadership at universities rather than the imagined and often-unrealistic expectations and perceptions of how leaders should act. This key text is an informed insiderâs guide to leadership transitions that will assist talented individuals in considering whether to apply for, how to prepare for and how to take on the task of leading a university. The collection of leadership experiences provided will help universities to be more successful, students to have great educational experiences and staff at all levels to have more-fulfilling working environments. It will also consider how to avoid the emotional pain and suffering that can arise when leaders find themselves poorly equipped, unprepared, unable or unwilling to provide the sound and competent leadership that universities deserve.Centred on the practice and experience of leadership, this book will be a must-read for all new and existing heads of universities. It will also provide useful insights to those actively involved in the recruitment and development of senior leaders, members of senior leadership teams and those who hold governance roles in universities. Further updates and details about the application of the ideas in the book in practice can be found at www.leadershiptransitionsatthetop.com/.Trade Review"There aren’t that many people who aspire to be Vice-Chancellors and even fewer who actually succeed in being appointed. This is an excellent book for those seeking appointment but also for those who make it to the top. Whilst it is presented as a handbook for aspiring and current VCs I do think there is also much of value in here for other senior leaders too. The book draws on the wide and deep experience of the authors in university leadership development which is usefully supplemented by a number of first hand accounts from current and previous Vice-Chancellors. It’s a comprehensive survey ranging from an exploration of the role and characteristics of VCs to how individuals end up getting themselves appointed to such positions." - Paul Greatix, Association of Heads of University AdministrationTable of ContentsPART 1: SETTING THE TRAJECTORY 1. Transitions: Concepts connections, challenges 2. Understanding the Role: The delicate balancing act 3. Understanding the Environment: Context and culture 4. ‘Being there’ and routes to ‘there’: Patterns and pathways 5. Undertaking the Journey Up: Motivations and making the cut PART 2: LEADING THE UNIVERSITY 6. Early Days: Surprises and sense-making 7. Senior Leadership Teams: It’s more than you 8. Working on the Agenda: Do strategy and planning really matter? 9. Leading change: From ‘launch pad’ to ‘lift off’ 10. Leading in a Crisis: Don’t forget BC, get through DC, focus on AC 11. Leading Externally: Concepts and cases 12. You and the Role: Surviving and thriving 13. Staying there: Most do, some don’t 14. The art and science of baton passing: Exiting well PART 3: WE NEED TO CHANGE 15. Shaping new beginnings: When, what and how? 16. The Future: for universities, for the Head of University (HoU) role and for transitions 17. Integrated leadership transitions: Planning and action 18. Voices from the top: final reflections on the realities of leading

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Book SynopsisIn this succinct yet comprehensive text, authors Lawless Frank and Richards guide readers through the essential basics that every educator needs to know about special education, covering everything from law to application.Streamlined and accessible chapters address legal knowledge Section 504, IDEA, ESSA, and FERPA assessment and identification, RTI, categories of disability, IEPs, accommodations, co-teaching, and instructional considerations.Designed to give new educators a focused introduction to critical concepts and terminology, this book also features supplemental online resources including an Instructor's Manual, quizzes, and more.Table of Contents1. Legal Aspects of Special Education 2. Multi-Tiered Systems of Support and Response to Intervention 3. Assessment and Identification 4. Disabilities 5. Individualized Education Programs 6. Teaching Strategies 7. Collaboration and Co Teaching 8. Overarching Instructional Concerns

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Book SynopsisWhat are the purposes of education and what is the relationship between educational research and policy? Using the twin lenses of Visible Learning and educational philosophy, these are among the many fascinating topics discussed in extended conversations between John Hattie and Steen Nepper Larsen. This wide-ranging and informative book offers fundamental propositions about the nature of education. It maps out in fascinating detail a coming together of Hattie's empirical data and world-famous Visible Learning paradigm with the rich heritage of educational philosophy. Additionally, it explores the inevitable questions of the purpose of education and the development of students in a learning society. Part clash of cultures, part meeting of minds, always fascinating and illuminating, this intriguing book will inspire teachers, students, and parents at all levels of the educational system from kindergarten through school to university. ConTrade Review"This book offers a mind-stretching breadth of content, a refreshingly respectful approach to debate, and an insightful analysis of the perennial 'purposes' question." - Steve Turnbull, Schools Week"The book has good section divisions, with small illustrative comics woven in and good summarizing questions after the chapters. All in all, it is a book with a very inviting and readable form." - Lark Grandjean, folkeskolen"If you are yet to read Visible Learning, I would recommend starting here. Many of the chapters can be used at teacher training colleges and other areas of higher education. I myself plan to use chapters from the book in my teaching. It comes highly recommended." - Kirsten Hyldgaard, Unge Pædagoger"It is well-edited, lively and contains many interesting conversations, which partly follow the main thematic tracks, but which also include numerous concrete experiences and examples from completely different contexts, which are interesting in themselves." - Peter Østergaard Andersen, Dansk pædagogisk TidsskriftTable of ContentsIntroductionI The encounterII Does educational data speak for itself?III Is learning a visible phenomenon? IV Is it important to teach and learn specific subjects?V How not to objectify the students and pupils you are studyingVI What is the role of the teacher?VII What is the relationship between educational research and educational politics? VIII Is it possible to revitalize the German concept Bildung (i.e., the formation of character and the higher ideas and ideals of education)? IX How to differentiate between the how, what, and why of educationX Is there a purpose of education?XI Is it possible to understand pedagogy as an art of decentering? XII How to deal with neuroscienceXIII How to deal with critiqueXIV If schools didn’t exist – would we miss them?XV Why are we longing for predictability and security?XVI The conversation stops but must continueReferencesList of abbreviationsGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisEthical Applied Behavior Analysis Models for Individuals Impacted by Autism provides teachers, parents, and behavior analysts with a comprehensive analysis of evidence-based, behavior analytic programs for the therapeutic treatment of persons with autism, from infancy through adulthood. Chapters review the characteristics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), behavior analytic concepts and interventions, and discuss the eight different effective treatment programs, examining each approach''s scientific base and value. Fully updated to reflect current research and understanding of autism, this second edition includes new chapters on evaluating high-quality behavior analytic programs, as well as explorations of programs covering the verbal behavior approach and those specially designed for adults.

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Book SynopsisThis fully updated second edition of Teaching Physical Education Creatively provides knowledge and understanding for students, trainee and qualified teachers, to engage creatively in teaching primary Physical Education. It is full of ideas for developing the teaching of dance, games, gymnastics and ways of using outdoor spaces for activities in an innovative and engaging manner. There is also a chapter to support creative practitioner to plan for creative Physical Education.With an emphasis on developing creative teaching processes by building from childrenâs curiosity, imagination and need to explore and move, it forges clear links between research and practice, and offers suggestions for developing exciting, engaging new approaches to teaching Physical Education.Key topics explored include: Physical Education and creativity Building physical competence and physical literacy Creative ways to develop the teaching of dance, games, gymnastics and ways of using outdoor spaces for activities Developing understanding of space, speed and dynamics Creative planning Inclusive approaches and aspects of differentiation Teaching Physical Education Creatively presents the theory and background necessary to develop a comprehensive understanding of creative teaching and childrenâs learning. Packed with practical guidance and inspiration for lively, enjoyable Physical Education, it is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in initial teacher training, practicing teachers, and undergraduate students of Physical Education and dance.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Teaching Physical Education creatively Chapter 2 Physical competence, physical literacy and creativity Chapter 3 Introducing dance Chapter 4 Developing dance Chapter 5 Introducing gymnastics Chapter 6 Developing gymnastics Chapter 7 Introducing games Chapter 8 Developing games Chapter 9 Creative spaces and places Chapter 10 The creative practitioner: planning for creative Physical Education

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Book SynopsisWritten to accompany the third edition of Todd Whitaker''s bestselling title, What Great Principals Do Differently, this study guide can be used by facilitators and participants in workshops, webinars, book study groups, or other professional development events. The guide features a variety of strategies and activities that will help principals apply the book's concepts to their own situation, so they can get the most out of the book, increase their professional growth, and have a greater impact as school leaders. Each chapter includes:Key ConceptsDiscussion QuestionsJournal PromptsGroup ActivitiesApplication StrategiesWith this study guide, you can gain a deeper understanding of Whitaker''s acclaimed book and learn how to apply his concepts and ideas in daily practices.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Why Look at Great?Chapter 2 It’s People, Not ProgramsChapter 3 Develop an Accurate Sense of SelfChapter 4 Who Is the Variable?Chapter 5 Treat Everyone with Respect, Every Day, All the TimeChapter 6 Be the FilterChapter 7 Teach, Don't TellChapter 8 Hire Great TeachersChapter 9 Recruiting and Retaining TalentChapter 10 Understand the Dynamics of ChangeChapter 11 Standardized TestingChapter 12 Focus on Behavior, Then Focus on BeliefsChapter 13 Loyal to Whom?Chapter 14 Base Every Decision on Your Best TeachersChapter 15 In Every Situation, Ask Who Is Most Comfortable and Who Is Least ComfortableChapter 16 Understand the High AchieversChapter 17 Make It Cool to CareChapter 18 Don’t Need to Repair—Always Do RepairChapter 19 Deal with Negative or Ineffective Staff MembersChapter 20 Set Expectations at the Start of the YearChapter 21 Leadership Is Not An EventChapter 22 Clarify Your Core

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Book SynopsisThis is a book about teachers' classroom motivating styles. Motivating style is the interpersonal tone and face-to-face behavior the teacher relies on when trying to motivate students to engage in classroom activities and procedures. The over-arching goal of the book is to help teachers work through the professional developmental process to learn how to provide instruction in ways that students will find to be motivationally-enriching, satisfying, and engagement-generating.To realize this goal, the book features six parts: Part 1: Introduction, introduces what teachers are to supportnamely, student motivation; Part 2: Motivating Style, explains what a supportive motivating style is; Part 3: How to, overviews the recommended motivationally-supportive instructional strategies one-by-one and step-by-step; Part 4: Workshop, walks the reader through the skill-building workshop experience; Part 5: Benefits, details all the student, teacher, and classroom benefits that come from an Trade Review"Finally a motivation book not based on pushing or pulling the student into the class activity, but based on the premise that students are already motivated and it is more about students answering ‘Why do this or that?’ Motivation is about direction and striving, about developing deeper levels of autonomy and competence, and the teachers role is to stand in the students shoes to understand their motivations, to be inviting, to show patience, and to create classroom learning activity that provide students with an opportunity to become motivated to learn. Based on the best theory of psychological being, grounded in 20 years of workshops to show how to engage students to thrive and strive, and with a perfect blend of practical and theoretical excellence."- John Hattie, Emeritus Laureate Professor, Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia"In this engaging and very accessible book, the authors provide convincing evidence why teachers do well to invest in autonomy-supportive teaching. Importantly, they also go to great lengths to provide specific recommendations how teachers can apply this motivating approach in their daily teaching, to the benefit of their students and themselves."- Maarten Vansteenkiste, Professor, Department of Developmental Psychology, Personality, and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium"This is an important and interesting book that should be on the shelf of every teacher who would like to apply recent insights from rigorous research to their everyday practice. We really need such books, and we do not have enough of them."- Avi Assor, Professor Emeritus, Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University, IsraelTable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction 1. Origins 2. Student Motivation Part 2: Supporting Motivation 3. Motivating and Demotivating Teachers 4. Motivating Style 5. Measuring Motivating Style Part 3: "How to" 6. Take the Students' Perspective 7. Invite Students to Pursue Their Personal Interests 8. Present Learning Activities in Need-Satisfying Ways 9. Provide Explanatory Rationales 10. Acknowledge and Accept Negative Feelings 11. Rely on Invitational Language 12. Display Patience 13. Discipline, Structure, and Behavior Change Part 4: Workshop 14. The Workshop 15. Does the Workshop Work? 16. Why the Workshop Works Part 5: Benefits 17. Student Benefits 18. Classroom Benefits 19. Teacher Benefits Part 6: Getting Started 20. Can All Teachers Become Autonomy Supportive? 21. Must Teachers Do All The Work? 22. Teachers' Professional Development 23. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTeaching Costume Design and Costume Rendering: A Guide for Theatre and Performance Educators clarifies the teaching process for Costume Design and Costume Rendering courses and offers a clear and tested path to success in the classroom.Drawing on the knowledge and experience of the author's twenty-five years of teaching as well as many decades of work by multiple other educators, this book provides a clear roadmap for teaching these two popular Theatre courses. It includes information on pedagogical theory, creating syllabi, preparing and structuring classes, crafting lectures, and analyzing students' work, with a heavy focus on specific teaching projects that have been proven to work in the classroom. All aspects of teaching costume design and rendering are considered, including body awareness, cultural sensitivities, script analysis, elements and principles of design, psychology of dress, choosing fabrics, period styling, and requirements of dance costumes. Table of Contents1. Overarching Concepts 2. Structuring the Class 3. Costume Design: The Class 4. Costume Design Projects 5. Costume Rendering: The Class 6. Costume Rendering Projects 7. Connecting Costume Design and Fashion History Classes 8. Costume Design and Dance 9. Mentoring Student Costume Designers

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Book SynopsisNow in its seventh edition, Creativity in the Classroom helps teachers link creativity research and theory to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. Ideal reading for any course dealing wholly or partially with creativity and teaching, this foundational textbook covers definitions, research, and theory in the first half, and reflects on classroom practices in the second. Thoroughly revised and updated, the seventh edition features new research on neuroscience and creativity in specific disciplines; new sections on social-emotional learning, teaching engineering, and leadership; and an entire new chapter on building creativity at the school or district level.Table of ContentsPart I: Understanding Creativity 1. Creativity in Classrooms 2. Models and Early Thoughts 3. Theories Today: Context, Systems, and Cognition 4. Creative People and Their Lives Part II: Creativity and Classroom Life 5. Building Creative Classrooms 6. Creativity in the Content Areas: Language Arts and Social Studies 7. Curriculum for Creativity in the Content Areas: Science, Math, and Engineering 8. Teaching Creative Thinking Skills and Habits 9. Assessment and Creativity 10. Building Creative Schools Appendix: Problem-Finding Lessons

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Book SynopsisWhat is English as a school subject for? What does knowledge look like in English and what should be taught? Making Meaning in English examines the broader purpose and reasons for teaching English and explores what knowledge looks like in a subject concerned with judgement, interpretation and value. David Didau argues that the content of English is best explored through distinct disciplinary lenses â metaphor, story, argument, pattern, grammar and context â and considers the knowledge that needs to be explicitly taught so students can recognise, transfer, build and extend their knowledge of English. He discusses the principles and tools we can use to make decisions about what to teach and offers a curriculum framework that draws these strands together to allow students to make sense of the knowledge they encounter.If students are going to enjoy English as a subject and do well in it, they not only need to be knowledgeable, but understand how to use their knowledTrade Review‘English teachers are hardworking, committed professionals too often given too little time to grapple with the important questions of what it is to be an English teacher and teach the best of English literature. In ‘Making Meaning in English’, Didau explores the past of English teaching, the problematic present, whilst offering an exploration of a better future. He digs in the rich traditions of the discipline, whilst offering teachers practical insights so that they can notice the artful craft of English and turn it into compelling action.’Alex Quigley, Author of Closing the Reading Gap and Closing the Vocabulary Gap‘In this thoughtful and timely book, David Didau identifies all the challenges involved with English curriculum design, which many of us have wrestled with over the years. Through disciplinary practice and substantive knowledge, which he sees shaped by modes of thought such as metaphor, story and pattern, Didau offers a practical means for English teachers to structure their curricula and for students to learn and appreciate the joys of the subject. I only wish this book had been available when I was head of department!’Phil Stock, Deputy Headteacher, Greenshaw High School, Sutton‘This is a book that invites hyperbole and for good reason. Its scope is spectacular, its details delightful and its provocations powerful. The principles it proposes go beyond English and make it an important read for anyone with curriculum responsibilities who is concerned with creating a proper curriculum. Written with considerable erudition and lightness of touch ‘Making Meaning in English’ is truly impressive.’Mary Myatt, Education Adviser and Writer, Author of The Curriculum: Gallimaufry to Coherence‘Making Meaning in English’ is a mature work, and this maturity can be detected in both its quietly meditative tone and the manner in which Didau, perhaps taking heed of Orwell’s ideas about writing, has absented himself from centre stage in order to allow the material to sing. The voice in this text does not feel the need to make any dogmatic assertions of its rightness. It is more grown up than that. What it seeks to do is to quietly inform you of things that you might want to consider about the teaching of English. It is not the ‘looking-for-the-quick-buck’ of the series of implementable techniques but is more a compendium of interesting pieces of information about the subject that is more wistfully entertaining and informative than it is instrumental. It is punctuated with a host of literary quotations that, not only illustrate the points Didau is making but, of themselves, unlock a landscape of thought and image, and it’s replete with interesting things that you had no idea that you needed to know and which caused this English teacher to consider quite deeply his own lack of knowledge in certain areas. It would be very good company indeed on a mazy, yet melancholy, Sunday afternoon sat on a verandah accompanied by wine, and I do not know a single teacher of English, be they NQT or classroom veteran, who would not benefit from reading this.’Phil Beadle, Author of The Facist Painting‘David Didau has written the essential book for every English teacher. It is urgent and important; I've never read anything like it. But it's not a guide on how to teach English. It's a book about making meaning in English and, as David says, it's about reimagining English as a subject concerned primarily with significance. ‘Making Meaning in English’ will challenge you, surprise you, niggle at you, and make you think really hard. As English teachers we're part of an ongoing conversation with our subject; David prompts us to consider how we can guide our children to pull up a chair and join in with the conversation, too.’Claire Stoneman, English Teacher and Writer‘An antidote for a generation of teachers inducted into teaching English through technique-spotting and PEE, this book should be compulsory reading in English departments and ITE courses up and down the land.’Lawrence Foley, Executive Principal, Harris Academy Tottenham‘David Didau is a singular force in education. It is well known that he writes, speaks, coaches and teaches from a position of restless curiosity and relishes capsizing a sacred school totem if it is an obstacle to young people's education. His publications help readers teach with excellence. With this wonderful, insightful and personal book, Making Meaning, you also learn how much he deeply loves literature too. You will already, but at the end you'll have fresh understanding of why you do.’Jude Hunton, Principal, Skegness Grammar School‘David Didau’s ‘Making Meaning in English’ marks a significant, and timely, change in books related to the teaching of English. He looks at an area that has, all too often, been neglected. The knowledge. The ideas. The concepts. Rather than focus on how to teach English, Didau looks at what to teach and when to teach it. What should students learn about? Refreshingly Didau doesn’t polarise aspects in English to knowledge and creativity or traditional and progressive thinking; instead, he explores the key components of English and rationalises what should be taught and why. There are never easy answers in English. Like Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', Didau is our moral compass in a confusing world where familiar and beloved things have been transformed out of shape and we can, easily, be seduced and bewitched by a powerful, domineering forces like exams. He boldly places a stake through the heart of ‘teaching to the exam’ and reassuringly covers Years 7 through to 11 with garlic. Thankfully, he stops at chopping people’s heads off. The book is much more than a book on English ideas. It is an exploration of literature and its history from someone who loves it dearly. Crammed full of extracts and examples, Didau highlights the beauty and the subtlety of the English language in all its forms. ‘Making Meaning in English’ is the book I wished I had when I started teaching English. And, it is the book I want now as I revise our school’s curriculum and decide what to teach and when to teach it. And, it will be the book I go back to when I start a new topic in English. ‘Making Meaning in English’ is paradigm shift in the teaching of English.’Chris Curtis, Head of English‘Knowing things, in Saul Bellow’s phrase, allows us to open the universe a little more. David’s ambitious mission in this book is to explore what might be a body of knowledge for English, a subject that ironically has too often lacked a convincing narrative for its own existence. Through literature we all must attempt to come to terms with and ‘try on’ a world lived differently, and as teachers, to help students as they start the lifelong process of defining how they see their world. The role of English is to change the way we understand the world around us as well as to unconsciously reinforce the power of Wittgenstein’s assertion that, ‘The limits of my language are the limits of my world’. In this insightful book, David does just that. This involves him approaching a wide variety of texts and dealing with their ambiguities and uncertainties, engaging with moral dilemmas and in turn illustrating the craft of writing. Richard Wright comments in Black Boy that he hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. In this book, David delivers this with scalpel like sharpness, skill and humour.’Ian Warwick, Founder & Senior Director, London GTi‘This book is a remarkable achievement. It seeks to relocate the status of literature and English teaching as a vital engine of culture; a noble end in itself rather than a mere preparation for the workplace. It's simply the book I wish I had read when I started teaching English.’ Dr Carl Hendrick, Author of How Learning Happens‘This book is very special. It’s about the beauty of English as an academic discipline whilst also offering a practical guide for teachers of the subject. Making Meaning in English addresses the subject with a nuance and faithfulness that warns against reductionism and instead celebrates and embraces the intricacies of English teaching. This book deserves a place on every English teacher’s bookshelf.’Claire Hill, English Teacher, Trust Vice Principal and Author of Symbiosis: The Curriculum and the Classroom‘English teachers are hardworking, committed professionals too often given too little time to grapple with the important questions of what it is to be an English teacher and teach the best of English literature. In ‘Making Meaning in English’, Didau explores the past of English teaching, the problematic present, whilst offering an exploration of a better future. He digs in the rich traditions of the discipline, whilst offering teachers practical insights so that they can notice the artful craft of English and turn it into compelling action.’Alex Quigley, Author of Closing the Reading Gap and Closing the Vocabulary Gap‘In this thoughtful and timely book, David Didau identifies all the challenges involved with English curriculum design, which many of us have wrestled with over the years. Through disciplinary practice and substantive knowledge, which he sees shaped by modes of thought such as metaphor, story and pattern, Didau offers a practical means for English teachers to structure their curricula and for students to learn and appreciate the joys of the subject. I only wish this book had been available when I was head of department!’Phil Stock, Deputy Headteacher, Greenshaw High School, Sutton‘This is a book that invites hyperbole and for good reason. Its scope is spectacular, its details delightful and its provocations powerful. The principles it proposes go beyond English and make it an important read for anyone with curriculum responsibilities who is concerned with creating a proper curriculum. Written with considerable erudition and lightness of touch ‘Making Meaning in English’ is truly impressive.’Mary Myatt, Education Adviser and Writer, Author of The Curriculum: Gallimaufry to Coherence‘Making Meaning in English’ is a mature work, and this maturity can be detected in both its quietly meditative tone and the manner in which Didau, perhaps taking heed of Orwell’s ideas about writing, has absented himself from centre stage in order to allow the material to sing. The voice in this text does not feel the need to make any dogmatic assertions of its rightness. It is more grown up than that. What it seeks to do is to quietly inform you of things that you might want to consider about the teaching of English. It is not the ‘looking-for-the-quick-buck’ of the series of implementable techniques but is more a compendium of interesting pieces of information about the subject that is more wistfully entertaining and informative than it is instrumental. It is punctuated with a host of literary quotations that, not only illustrate the points Didau is making but, of themselves, unlock a landscape of thought and image, and it’s replete with interesting things that you had no idea that you needed to know and which caused this English teacher to consider quite deeply his own lack of knowledge in certain areas. It would be very good company indeed on a mazy, yet melancholy, Sunday afternoon sat on a verandah accompanied by wine, and I do not know a single teacher of English, be they NQT or classroom veteran, who would not benefit from reading this.’Phil Beadle, Author of The Facist Painting‘David Didau has written the essential book for every English teacher. It is urgent and important; I've never read anything like it. But it's not a guide on how to teach English. It's a book about making meaning in English and, as David says, it's about reimagining English as a subject concerned primarily with significance. ‘Making Meaning in English’ will challenge you, surprise you, niggle at you, and make you think really hard. As English teachers we're part of an ongoing conversation with our subject; David prompts us to consider how we can guide our children to pull up a chair and join in with the conversation, too.’Claire Stoneman, English Teacher and Writer‘An antidote for a generation of teachers inducted into teaching English through technique-spotting and PEE, this book should be compulsory reading in English departments and ITE courses up and down the land.’Lawrence Foley, Executive Principal, Harris Academy Tottenham‘David Didau is a singular force in education. It is well known that he writes, speaks, coaches and teaches from a position of restless curiosity and relishes capsizing a sacred school totem if it is an obstacle to young people's education. His publications help readers teach with excellence. With this wonderful, insightful and personal book, Making Meaning, you also learn how much he deeply loves literature too. You will already, but at the end you'll have fresh understanding of why you do.’Jude Hunton, Principal, Skegness Grammar School‘David Didau’s ‘Making Meaning in English’ marks a significant, and timely, change in books related to the teaching of English. He looks at an area that has, all too often, been neglected. The knowledge. The ideas. The concepts. Rather than focus on how to teach English, Didau looks at what to teach and when to teach it. What should students learn about? Refreshingly Didau doesn’t polarise aspects in English to knowledge and creativity or traditional and progressive thinking; instead, he explores the key components of English and rationalises what should be taught and why. There are never easy answers in English. Like Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', Didau is our moral compass in a confusing world where familiar and beloved things have been transformed out of shape and we can, easily, be seduced and bewitched by a powerful, domineering forces like exams. He boldly places a stake through the heart of ‘teaching to the exam’ and reassuringly covers Years 7 through to 11 with garlic. Thankfully, he stops at chopping people’s heads off. The book is much more than a book on English ideas. It is an exploration of literature and its history from someone who loves it dearly. Crammed full of extracts and examples, Didau highlights the beauty and the subtlety of the English language in all its forms. ‘Making Meaning in English’ is the book I wished I had when I started teaching English. And, it is the book I want now as I revise our school’s curriculum and decide what to teach and when to teach it. And, it will be the book I go back to when I start a new topic in English. ‘Making Meaning in English’ is paradigm shift in the teaching of English.’Chris Curtis, Head of English‘Knowing things, in Saul Bellow’s phrase, allows us to open the universe a little more. David’s ambitious mission in this book is to explore what might be a body of knowledge for English, a subject that ironically has too often lacked a convincing narrative for its own existence. Through literature we all must attempt to come to terms with and ‘try on’ a world lived differently, and as teachers, to help students as they start the lifelong process of defining how they see their world. The role of English is to change the way we understand the world around us as well as to unconsciously reinforce the power of Wittgenstein’s assertion that, ‘The limits of my language are the limits of my world’. In this insightful book, David does just that. This involves him approaching a wide variety of texts and dealing with their ambiguities and uncertainties, engaging with moral dilemmas and in turn illustrating the craft of writing. Richard Wright comments in Black Boy that he hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. In this book, David delivers this with scalpel like sharpness, skill and humour.’Ian Warwick, Founder & Senior Director, London GTi‘This book is a remarkable achievement. It seeks to relocate the status of literature and English teaching as a vital engine of culture; a noble end in itself rather than a mere preparation for the workplace. It's simply the book I wish I had read when I started teaching English.’ Dr Carl Hendrick, Author of How Learning Happens‘This book is very special. It’s about the beauty of English as an academic discipline whilst also offering a practical guide for teachers of the subject. Making Meaning in English addresses the subject with a nuance and faithfulness that warns against reductionism and instead celebrates and embraces the intricacies of English teaching. This book deserves a place on every English teacher’s bookshelf.’Claire Hill, English Teacher, Trust Vice Principal and Author of Symbiosis: The Curriculum and the ClassroomTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: What is English For?Chapter 2: Problems in EnglishChapter 3: An Epistemology of EnglishChapter 4: Noticing and AnalogisingChapter 5: MetaphorChapter 6: StoryChapter 7: ArgumentChapter 8: Pattern Chapter 9: Grammar Chapter 10: ContextChapter 11: Connecting the curriculumChapter 12: Into action

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces the new term creativities' with cutting-edge examples of creativities research that has influenced the thinking and work of teachers and school leaders in their practice. Co-edited by one of the leading international experts in creativity and the arts, this book is packed with imaginative ideas and practical classroom suggestions underpinned by theory and research to help teachers become research-informed and research-generating. Sculpting New Creativities in Primary Education will inspire us, invite us to think, and share ways in which research is informing and enabling a role for new and creative practices in primary education. Each chapter is collaboratively written by an academic and a practicing teacher covering areas such as: creative spaces, intercultural and interdisciplinary creativity, art, wellbeing, mathematics, STEM and leadership creativities. It importantly highlights the need to inspire, shape and unfold change-making practicTable of ContentsPART 1: SCULPTING PRIMARY SCHOOL CHANGE 1. Creativities of change in primary education 2. Using school corridors to support learning: spatial creativity driving primary education 3. Storying the journey to new spaces of intercultural creative learning 4. Animating primary schools, inside and out: enlivening learning through meaningful memory-making 5. Posthumanist creative ecologies in primary education PART 2: SCULPTING PRIMARY CURRICULUM CHANGE 6. Innovating change through creativities curricula 7. The Creative Pedagogue: Enacting Affective Pathways for Interdisciplinary Embodied Creativity in Primary Education 8. Activating creativities by emphasising health and wellbeing: a Holistic Pedagogical practice from Finland 9. Cultivating primary creativities in STEAM gardens PART 3: SCULPTING ‘CHANGE’ DIFFERENTLY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION 10. Unlocking creative leadership in the primary school 11. Learning at a Snail’s Pace: ‘What if’ and ‘What else’ is happening in a South African primary classroom? 12. ‘What can be otherwise’ : Embodying a collective phronesis (or practical wisdom) for sculpting new creativities in primary education and beyond Afterword

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Book SynopsisOn the Write Track puts teachers' autonomy and their knowledge of what is right for their pupils at the heart of teaching writing. It explores a set of research-based principles, before illustrating these with case studies and examples of classroom practice. Writing is about communication. Learning to write gives children a voice that others will listen to a voice they can use to share their ideas, articulate their feelings, amuse and delight their readers and argue for what they believe in. While every child, every teacher and every classroom are different, approaches to teaching writing can sometimes feel prescriptive, whether they are based on a particular curriculum model, commercial scheme, assessment system or underlying philosophy. This book provides freedom and choice by introducing a series of tracks' for writing teaching, including practical approaches to: Building a community of writers in the classroom <Trade Review Winner of the UKLA Academic Book Award 2023 - judges noted, 'On the Write Track thus seems likely to be a staple for many years to come, not just for early years and primary teachers but also secondary English teachers, initial teacher education students and teacher-researchers. Children learning to write in the classrooms of anyone who engages with this publication will undoubtedly benefit from its benign but robust advice.’ "In On the Write Track, James Clements offers writing scheme-weary primary educators something refreshingly simple, sensible and well-researched. He argues for several pathways (or in his words, a number of ‘tracks’) teachers can choose to take with their students, responding and using their professional judgment wisely... On the Write Track is worth reading and using for all primary teachers due to its equal balance of depth and accessibility." - Robbie Burns, Schools Week Table of ContentsOn the Write Track: An introduction 1. Theory and principles 1. What can we learn from the research around teaching writing? 2. Finding the right track: a personal philosophy for teaching writing 2. Assembling tracks: practical approaches to teaching writing Introduction 3. Starting with children’s interests 4. Starting with children’s experiences 5. Starting with imagination 6. Writing and poetry 7. Children’s literature and writing 8. Using and creating film, multimedia and multimodal texts 9. Starting with knowledge 10. Spoken language and writing 11. Drama, play and writing 12. Collaboration: working and writing together 3. Building a process-led sequence for teaching writing Introduction 13. Pre-writing: Laying the foundations 14. Planning: Organising and playing with ideas 15. Drafting: Putting words onto the page or screen 16. Revising: Evaluating, editing and polishing 17. Creating outcomes: Producing something to be proud of 4 . Using language for effect Introduction 18. Grammar and syntax for writing 19. Punctuation for clarity and effect 20. Vocabulary for expression 5.Putting it into practice

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