Teaching Skills & Techniques

For more than twenty years, topic work has been accepted as the natural way to teach young children in their first years of school. The introductio...

The Improvising Teacher offers a radical reconceptualization of improvisation as a fundamental element of teacher expertise. Drawing on theories of...

Setting the Stage promotes a “Learner’s Brain Model” using brain research to understand the nature to the learner so teachers can develop lessons b...

The Challenge of English in the National Curriculum considers how particular aspects of a national curriculum can be reconciled with the best pract...

This volume focuses on the post-observation feedback conference, a common feature of teacher education programs, and highlights the importance of s...

Working with Two-year-olds is an accessible and practical guide into the developmental pathways of two-year-olds. The book uses established researc...

As a teacher, the more efficient you are, the less stressful work becomes, and the more effective you are, the more you can focus on teaching those...

Power and Doctoral Supervision Teams engages with the interplay of power generated through the way doctoral supervision teams are structured and ho...

This book is an essential guide for anyone intending to write effective case studies for educational purposes. The practical tips provided in this ...

This book deals with teachers' behaviors that promote the creativity of students. It includes a rating scale for measuring a teacher's creativity f...

Student Voice: From Invisible to Invaluable is about why and how today’s leaders need to connect with students for success. The premise of this boo...

This book exhibits a collection of proposals for how school curriculum may be conceived, designed, and realized. These proposals are drawn from wri...

A Practical Guide to Using Storyline Across the Curriculum provides a comprehensive introduction to the Storyline approach to teaching and learning...

Suspicious aims at providing teachers and students of history and related social sciences with ideas for critical thinking about past and present a...

Out-of-school learning spans varied formal and informal contexts and is hugely important for the lives of children. The need for time, flexibility,...

Given the constantly changing student demographics in our public schools, teacher educators are tasked with preparing teacher candidates with refle...

This book examines the compensation system for teachers in compulsory education in China and how it can be brought to bear in attracting, retaining...

Teaching in the Age of Disinformation makes a case for the importance of developing students’ intelligent habits of mind so that they become more d...

This book addresses a very important aspect of teacher training, as well as the training of educational administrators, school counselors and other...

Planning for Success demonstrates the power of applied listening through focus, meaning, and understanding context. The book centers on the need fo...

Planning for Success demonstrates the power of applied listening through focus, meaning, and understanding context. The book centers on the need fo...

The Whole Person: Embodying Teaching and Learning through Lectio and Visio Divina offers readers a rich collection of voices from diverse settings ...

A pocket mentor for the early career academic learning to strategically navigate the demands of an academic role, this book is a friendly and const...

Originally published in 1983. A broad examination of the ways in which teachers gain and use knowledge about their work is presented in this book. ...

This book explores the use of lesson study within the context of initial teacher education. The lesson study process is broken down into its main c...

There is a growing trend in education for educators to support students in the development of social and emotional skills. SEL mandates are now par...

Socialization is a complex process which has a profound effect on how we experience teaching and learning. The study of teachers’ lives and careers...

The desire to be happy and live a good life has been a constant throughout history. In these incredibly important adolescent years, creating opport...

As public high school teachers in a school where we often move from classroom to classroom each day, we found that it was a challenge to create a c...

FORWARD FAST explores the extraordinary impact that the internet and web-enabled devices have had on schools. Educational leader and author, Marc I...

Teaching history should not simply be an endless recitation of irrelevant facts, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away ...

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

This manual is designed to help teachers establish a principled framework for developing English at Key Stages 1 and 2. Covering all aspects of Eng...

Sustaining Teacher Leadership describes a model for linking leadership and learning and identifies six components necessary for enabling a culture ...

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

Learn how to increase instructional rigor so that all students can reach higher levels of learning! In this new edition of a best seller, author Ba...

Working in 'partnership' in primary schools is an approach that is transforming the classrooms of the 1990s. It is now widely acknowledged that a c...

Problems of classroom management and control are a recurring concern for many teachers. Disruptive behaviour and inattention hinder effective learn...

This book is the peer teacher everyone wishes they had been assigned when they entered the profession and the refresher veteran teachers might be s...

Jumpstart! Creativity contains over 70 games and activities that any primary teacher can use to quickly and easily boost students’ creative and cri...

This book examines teaching practices in international education, focusing on two significant meanings of the notion of ‘practice’: the concrete ac...

This book is the peer teacher everyone wishes they had been assigned when they entered the profession and the refresher veteran teachers might be s...

This book is a follow up to Board Game Education. However, unlike many of the board games discussed in Board Game Education, this book identifies ...

This text rearticulates understandings of materials—blocks of clay, sheets of paper, brushes and paints, fabrics, and plastics—to formulate new ide...

This practical analytical guide to classroom languaging dynamics in L2 tertiary classrooms integrates multimodality, sociological theory of educati...

Calling All Superheroes highlights the enormous potential of superhero play in supporting learning and development in early childhood. Using exampl...

This book considers the importance of teaching excellence in higher education and why it is important to recognize it for the goal of improving stu...