Primary/Elementary Education

_x005F_x000D_ The Really Useful Drama Book offers busy primary school teachers a collection of step-by-step drama sessions, inspired by high quality picturebooks, that will engage children and promote enjoyable learning across the curriculum. Lively and thoughtful, the interactive drama sessions are..

Perfect as a companion to any elementary science methods textbook or as a stand alone reference for practitioners, The Really Useful Elementary Science Book is a resource teachers will want to reach for again and again...

Offering a variety of critical perspectives on a diverse and controversial field, this Handbook includes a range of internationally-sourced chapters, providing a critical and dialogical account of theories and practices of philosophy for and with children. Exploring insights into the key philosophic..

Provides adults with a straight forward sequence of progressive learning experiences, designed to enable them to develop basic skill in reading aloud & storytelling, while experiencing growth in confidence at every step along the way...

Teachers are the most important determinant of the quality of schooling yet we seem to be demoralising and deskilling our teaching profession. This is the teacher paradox. This book aims to resolve the paradox by fundamentally rethinking the way we attract, train and retain teachers. Drawing on the ..

Bilingual (Spanish/English) curricular guide and reference source for staff development for the teaching of reading in Spanish to the bilingual student...

Opinions about comprehensive education are often made into sound-bites by the media and politicians. Whilst the benefits of a comprehensive education for all pupils are obvious, untruths have unwittingly evolved into hard facts. As part of the Local Schools Network, Benn and Downs are challenging my..

Traces the evolution of the teacher and the profession of teaching from the late 18th century to the present through a range of narrative forms (fiction, memoirs, letters, ethnographies)...

Traces the evolution of the teacher and the profession of teaching from the late 18th century to the present through a range of narrative forms (fiction, memoirs, letters, ethnographies)...

Offers a range of research into how primary classrooms actually work looking at the development of specific curriculum areas and how they can be taught and assessed across the ability range...

Offers a range of research into how primary classrooms actually work looking at the development of specific curriculum areas and how they can be taught and assessed across the ability range...

Classroom questions have traditionally focussed on testing the recall, understanding and application of content and methods. This book introduces the basic core thinking processes used to connect and make sense of information through a range of skill based sections which provide the basis of a think..