Teaching Skills & Techniques

This reader explores the nature of interactions between children and their teachers in the classroom. It emphasises the importance of such relation...

This wide ranging sourcebook draws together a range of recent and specially commissioned pieces which examine how policy development and research f...

The fully updated second edition of Troublesome Behaviour in the Classroom is the most comprehensive and practical guide available on the subject o...

This sourcebook offers a unique summary into all that was important in primary education during the 1990s. It provides almost fifty key readings on...

Breaktime in the school is a period when pupils learn social skills they will need in the world outside. But it can also be an occasion for aggress...

Otto Peters is widely recognised as one of the world's leading authorities on distance education. His theory of distance education as the most indu...

How can teachers support children with emotional or social difficulties?Counselling Pupils in Schools is a comprehensive guide to the effective use...

Recent performance-based teacher assessments have challenged teacher educators to rethink the ways that candidates are prepared in education progra...

The nature of classroom practice is undergoing change as more and more adults are being brought into classrooms in response to such trends as paren...

This text is specially designed to support student teachers in the school based element of their course. It provides accessible guidance, backed by...

This book is designed to be a professional development tool for both preservice and practicing teachers. It provides descriptions, explanations, an...

Efforts to reduce discrimination and increase diversity on campuses, coupled with shrinking budgets causing administrators to devote more resources...

This highly successful introductory text has been updated in the light of recent legislative changes in education - such as the introduction of tea...

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of the successful Managing Misbehaviour in Schools presents a wide-ranging survey of both the theore...

As the integration of children with special educational needs into ordinary classrooms progresses, most special needs professionals spend an increa...

In this book you will find over 150 role plays, micro (quick) role plays, creative activities, and guided imagery which has been developed and used...

Although distance education has developed rapidly over the past decade, writing on the subject is still scattered over a diverse range of often ina...

As the integration of children with special educational needs into ordinary classrooms progresses, most special needs professionals spend an increa...

There is no doubt about the importance of assessment: it defines what students regard as important, how they spend their time and how they come to ...

Recent performance-based teacher assessments have challenged teacher educators to rethink the ways that candidates are prepared in education progra...

Originally published in 1988, this book discusses the gradual move from the separation of home and school to an increasing acceptance of the centra...

Designed to accompany the Open University course Developing Intensive Curricula:Equality and Diversity in Education, Vol 1 will appeal to research ...

It has long been assumed that school redesign can’t happen in already existing comprehensive high schools.  The thought has been, if you want to ma...

Many families and educators are concerned with the school readiness skills that children acquire in preschool; however, they do not realize that th...

For many student teachers the classroom is a strange and potentially uncontrollable environment. This book shows how the period of classroom obser...

This book serves as a practical guide, for teachers of middle-school students as well as higher grade levels, that provides clear and fully-develop...

Drawing on the work of Vygotsky, the authors look at the social and emotional advantages children can gain from working together. They use case stu...

Transition In, Through and Out of Higher Education: International Case Studies and Best Practice recognises that the initial steps into undergradua...

Modern language classrooms are currently dominated by the communicative method of language teaching. This reader draws together recent and newly co...

Imagination and creative teaching approaches are increasingly important across all higher education disciplines, not just the arts. Investigating t...

In the UK and elsewhere, the training of teachers is increasingly seen as a matter of partnership between schools and institutions of higher educat...

Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding is a comprehensive resource for educators in primary and early years classrooms. It provides ...

Didactics, Learning and Leadership in Higher Education presents a new model for understanding development strategies for learning and leadership. I...

The Elements of Instruction provides a common vocabulary and conceptual schema of teaching and learning that is fully applicable to all forms of in...

This book serves as a practical guide, for teachers of middle-school students as well as higher grade levels, that provides clear and fully-develop...

Thinking about teaching in educational terms has become increasingly difficult because of the conceptions of higher education that predominate in b...

Practicing Critical Oral History: Connecting School and Community provides ways and words for educators to use critical oral history in their class...

Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North, this book Leadership Intelligence, A Fieldbook for School Leaders, is a practical ...

In this book you will find over 150 role plays, micro (quick) role plays, creative activities, and guided imagery which has been developed and used...

This book is designed to be a professional development tool for both preservice and practicing teachers. It provides descriptions, explanations, a...

The attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is one of the most insidious social injustices in the developed world.It is a signi...

Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North, this book Leadership Intelligence, A Fieldbook for School Leaders, is a practical ...

Published in 1996, this book is written for teachers and other professionals who work with children with multiple disabilities. It explores and sug...

Can White teachers teach Black Students? This is the provocative and pointed inquiry that drives the creation of White Teachers, Black Students. Th...

Originally published in 1974, this introductory text has been designed specifically for teachers in training, and it presents the basic psychologic...

To develop a mode of educational research which speaks both of and to the teacher we require more study of the lives of teachers. This book provide...

Originally published in 1984, this book considers the ever-increasing pressure that teachers are under both to demonstrate and maintain their profe...

Many families and educators are concerned with the school readiness skills that children acquire in preschool; however, they do not realize that th...