Classroom Practice

The essential guide for teachers of anyone with spelling difficulties, from a renowned dyslexia expert. Covering background information and explanations of the mechanics of spelling, the book also offers invaluable practical guidance...

Takes a holistic approach to using ICTs to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. It weaves together evidence of teachers’ and learners’ experiences of ICT outside school, how policy and management issues impact on learning, and what actually happens when ICT is fully integrated into teachi..

Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. While this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils to learn how to learn. This book makes a major contribution by building on previous work ..

Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. While this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils to learn how to learn. This book makes a major contribution by building on previous work ..

Breaking words down into units of meaning can help children with spelling where other techniques such as phonics can fail. This book outlines techniques for teaching about these morphemes, and highlights the potential benefits for literacy learning...

Breaking words down into units of meaning can help children with spelling where other techniques such as phonics can fail. This book outlines techniques for teaching about these morphemes, and highlights the potential benefits for literacy learning...

Focusing on pupils moving from primary to middle or secondary school, it describes and evaluates the schools’ programmes to ease transfer, and includes material provided by the pupils themselves. The main body of the book is a rich and detailed account of the first months of life in new secondary sc..

Designed to accompany the Open University MA module in mentoring, this guide offers access to the latest research in this area...

Jumpstart! Talk for Learning presents a collection of multi-sensory games and activities that will jumpstart children’s use of effective talk in the classroom. This book offers practical and engaging ideas ranging from brief games to extended lesson suggestions. It offers a basis for creating your o..

The contributors use teachers' accounts together with their own research to examine how the use of computers in school can affect the ways in which children learn and teachers teach...

This text examines three integrated components of strong pedagogy—assessment, planning, and instruction—within a framework emphasizing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that can empower teachers to become teacher leaders within their schools...

This book takes a unique, illuminating look at the experience of student teaching from the perspective of student teachers. Its premise is that learning to teach is an inquiry process that can be systematically studied. Readers see close-up student teach..