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Examines the way in which children view their world. This book poses questions of citizenship and how children come to a sense of belonging in their community of nation, family, classroom and school. It describes and analyses the responses of more than 400 children to a series of open-ended questions.

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Complex Numbers and Vectors is an informative resource for advanced mathematics teachers or students undertaking advanced maths courses that draws on the power of intrigue and uses appealing applications from navigation, global positioning systems, earthquakes and stories from mathematical history to explain the mathematics of vectors and the discoveries in complex numbers. The title is split into two parts: Part 1 provides teachers with background material, ideas and teaching approaches to complex numbers: o Including models for complex numbers and their geometric and algebraic properties, their role in providing completeness with respect to the solution of polynomial equations of a single complex variable (the fundamental theorem of algebra) and the specification of curves and regions in the complex plane; and simple transformations of the complex plane. Part 2 provides an introduction to vectors and vector spaces: o Including matrix representation (covers vectors in two- and three-dimensions), their application to specification of curves and vector calculus and their elementary application to geometric proof Technology has been used throughout the text to construct images of curves, graphs and two and three dimensional shapes.

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Today’s school leaders are faced with the increasingly daunting task of leading their schools to improve, to innovate and to become ever more responsive to change. There are many resources to help schools to engage with improvement frameworks, but few that directly address the complexity of the challenges that inevitably arise along the way. Based on extensive research in the field, including the outcomes of a five-year project on school improvement and professional learning in Australia and New Zealand, Leading Professional Learning: Practical Strategies for Impact in Schools identifies the challenges that school leaders face when leading professional learning and development in their schools as part of an improvement agenda. Renowned professional development expert, Helen Timperley, has collaborated with a team of prominent authors, including Fiona Ell, Deidre Le Fevre and Kaye Twyford, to uncover the reasons underpinning these challenges and to provide practical strategies on how to address them. Case studies, excerpts from real teachers’ experiences and step-by-step examples of useful strategies, including the spiral of inquiry, give school leaders the tools they need to tackle complex challenges in teaching, learning, curriculum delivery and pedagogical practice in both primary and secondary settings. Leading Professional Learning: Practical Strategies for Impact in Schools is a hands-on resource for school leaders to identify specific professional learning and development issues that accompany the learning and change process and to overcome them in their schools.

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This comprehensive collection of essays is designed to assist doctoral supervisors through candidate selection to thesis examination post- doctoral life. It includes chapters on supervision-candidature agreements, ways to build effective supervision relationships, helping candidates write and think, and more.

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Intends to assist parents manage the complex demands of parenting and to strengthen the couple relationship and the relationship between parents and infants. This book presents skills in coping, problem-solving, enhancing self-esteem, assertive communication, bonding with your baby and understanding your baby's cues.

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Offers an overview of a wide range of disabilities that have an impact on students' learning and development. This book contains topics including: intellectual disability, autism, Asperger syndrome, other pervasive developmental disorders, language disorders, physical and health impairments, and vision and hearing impairments.

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This title provides ways of working with teenagers to help them regain confidence and feel positive about their future and to make their therapeutic journey a stimulating yet emotionally stabilising time.

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A groundbreaking book based on research carried out in Australia by the author on the needs of children whose parents experience periods of mental illness. Other profesional contributors encompass areas such as the effects of mental illness on children; service provision for children and their parents; foster care and child protection.

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Addresses the issue of teaching phonemic and orthographic skills to beginning and struggling readers. It outlines a program that provides a step-by-step process and structure with fully developed practice exercises. These exercises are designed so that they can be used in the classroom, in a withdrawal situation, and in special classes.

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Kit goes to school with her friends Harley and Vanya, and always tries her best at everything she does. Arlo is too loud, too close, just too... much. But when a moving van pulls up next to Kit's house one weekend, Kit and Arlo find out they have a lot more in common than they thought.Join Kit, Arlo and their friends as they navigate school, home life and friendships, and learn more than a few things about how to get along.A novel and accompanying teaching resources for teaching consent to children aged 8 to 12.For primary schools and teachers who need age-appropriate resources on teaching consent to children in Grades 3 to 6, Kit and Arlo Find a Way offers engaging narratives for children and evidence-based prompts and teaching activities for classroom use.

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