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Ann Gravells

Pbk | 576pp | 9781473997134 | 11/11/2017A$71 | NZ$86 | Sage Publications Ltd

Written by bestselling author Ann Gravells, this is the complete go-to guide for anyone wanting to be (or working as) a teacher or trainer in the further education and skills sector, in the UK and beyond. It has all the information you need to work towards a qualification such as the Award, Certificate or Diploma in Education and Training. The text takes you through all the information you need to know, opening up the topic for learning in an easily accessible way. Interactive activities are included throughout, along with real examples of teaching and training in practice.

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ADULT EDUCATION

Principles and Practices of Teaching and Training: A guide for teachers and trainers in the FE and skills sector

Jim Crawley

Pbk | 144pp | 9781526424754 | 10/03/2018A$48.99 | NZ$57.99 | Sage Publications Ltd

Just Teach! in FE is a straightforward, helpful, engaging and reliable read for all beginning teachers. It focuses on the needs of the teacher and the learner and outlines this people-centered approach. This focus on the principles of good teaching, and the theory behind them, frees the reader from ever-changing structures and provides truly practical strategies to use from their first lesson.

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Just Teach! in FE: A people-centered approach

Peg Dawson and Richard Guare

Pbk | 306pp | 9781462535316 | 8/06/2018A$74 | NZ$88 | Guilford Publications Inc

Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention 3ed presents effective ways to assess students' strengths and weaknesses, create supportive instructional environments, and promote specific skills, such as organisation, time management, sustained attention, and emotional control. Strategies for individualised and classwide intervention are illustrated with vivid examples and sample scripts.

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ASSESSMENT

Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention 3ed

Margaret Carr


This text shows that an early childhood setting can be described as a learning place in which children develop learning dispositions such as resilience in the face of uncertainty, confidence to express their ideas, and collaborative and thoughtful approaches to problem-solving. The book describes a way of assessment that stays close to the children's real experiences and provides an alternative to mechanistic and fragmented approaches and shows how practitioners can assess what really matters: those learning dispositions (interest, involvement, and perseverance for example)

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Assessment in Early Childhood Settings: Learning Stories

Carolyn Chapman and Rita King

Pbk | 216pp | 9781412996648 | 15/11/2011A$74 | NZ$87 | Sage Publications Inc

Assessment is an essential component of differentiated instruction. Assessing students before, during, and after instruction allows teachers and curriculum leaders to draw from a repertoire of assessment tools and strategies not only to improve student performance but also to help students self-assess and take responsibility for their own learning. This collection of ready-to-use assessment strategies will be appropriate for struggling learners, learners with special needs, learners who are performing at grade level, and for advanced learners.

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Differentiated Assessment Strategies: One Tool Doesn`t Fit All 2ed

Jean Mercer


Child Development: Concepts and Theories takes a step back to focus just on the key concepts of child development that all students must learn. With this text, their first encounters with theories and their applications will mean that they can move on with a firm foundation in child development. Central to this, is understanding how these theories or concepts are applied in the real world and how psychologists engage with them in research. This text gives clear and detailed examples to bring the subject to life.

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CHILD DEVELOPMENT

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Child Development: Concepts and Theories

Marion Dowling


Young children's personal, social, and emotional development is an area of ever-increasing interest to those working in the field of early childhood. This fourth edition of Marion Dowling's much-loved text has been updated to include up-to-date research references and revised case studies; coverage of Troubled Families and ‘Vulnerable Children’, with sections on identifying risk, talking to families, and safeguarding and protection; a revised final chapter considering different methods of supporting children; and new guidance for working with parents.

Young Children's Personal, Social and Emotional Development 4ed

Christine McCormick and David Scherer


This accessible text - now revised and updated - has given thousands of future educators a solid grounding in developmental science to inform their work in schools. The expert authors review major theories of development and their impact on educational practice. Chapters examine how teaching and learning intersect with specific domains of child and adolescent development - language, intelligence and intellectual diversity, motivation, family and peer relationships, gender roles, and mental health.

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Child and Adolescent Development for Educators 2ed

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Margaret Carr and Wendy Lee


Margaret Carr's seminal work on Learning Stories was first published in 2001, and this widely acclaimed approach to assessment has since gained a huge international following. In this text, the authors outline the philosophy behind Learning Stories and refer to the latest findings from the research projects they have led with teachers on learning dispositions and learning power, to argue that Learning Stories can construct learner identities in early childhood settings and schools.

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EARLY CHILDHOOD

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Learning Stories: Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education

Allison James and Adrian James

Pbk | 160pp | 9781446201909 | 30/09/2012A$55.99 | NZ$66 | Sage Publications Ltd

This text is comprehensive and compiled with the needs of students in mind. It is a model of clarity and precision and has been acknowledged as such in reviews and course feedback. This edition thoroughly revises old entries and adds new ones. The text is the most accessible, relevant student introduction to this expanding, interdisciplinary field. It is an indispensable teaching text.

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Key Concepts in Childhood Studies 2ed

Gillian Pugh and Bernadette Duffy


If you are a student or practitioner in the early years sector, you need to develop a rounded understanding of key issues in this fast-moving field. This new and updated edition provides a critical examination of the essential issues in early years policy and practice. With contributions from highly regarded practitioners and researchers, this text balances theory and practical concerns.

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Contemporary Issues in the Early Years 6ed

Rory McDowall Clark


Childhood can only be understood in relation to the multitude of social factors which surround it. This text is written for students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early Years, Early Childhood Studies and related disciplines. It offers an introduction to the study of childhood and the different contexts within which childhood exists. The text explores childhood from different contexts: from the child within the family, to the global perspective, and the child's own perspective.

Childhood in Society for the Early Years 3ed

Kate Tucker


Offering practical examples of focused, playful teaching this popular book is back for a third edition, with even more activities to use in your setting with children aged from 3 to 8. Completely updated, this new edition covers all the hot topics in the field, and now includes: a section on teaching mathematics in forest school; more coverage of using ICT to teach mathematics; new case studies covering children with special needs; a key vocabulary section at the end of each chapter, and even more activities to use in lessons.

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Mathematics Through Play in the Early Years 3ed

Alma Fleet, Catherine Patterson and Janet


Pedagogical documentation is a vital method of assessing and observing young children, and is a practice that enables practitioners, families and children to learn alongside each other. This book draws on the projects and experiences of senior researchers from nations including Australia, Canada, Sweden, Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S. to highlight multiple approaches to pedagogical documentation. The book offers guidance, support and inspiration to practitioners and researchers on how to implement meaningful and sustainable child-focused observation in early years settings.

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Pedagogical Documentation in Early Years Practice: Seeing Through Multiple Perspectives

Amanda Thomas and Karen McInnes


Teaching Early Years: Theory and Practice takes a genuine theory and practice approach and looks at the main areas of global early years curricula, dedicating a chapter to each. It also includes discussion of key elements of early years education such as play, assessment and SEND.

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Teaching Early Years: Theory and Practice

Sacha Powell and Kate Smith


This new edition of this bestselling textbook examines the key themes involved in the study of young children and childhood from a variety of disciplines and international perspectives, making essential links between theory and practice to help you apply your learning in real-life settings. Throughout, case studies, exercises and links to further reading help you engage with key issues and test your learning, making it easier for you to get to grips with all aspects of your course.

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An Introduction to Early Childhood Studies 4ed

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Greg Bottrill


Is it time to re-think continuous practice in the early years? The world of education is an amazing and rewarding world to be in, but there is a sense among many that work within it that there is something not quite right, that all is not well. In this book, Greg Bottrill explores how he ensures that, in his Early Years setting, continuous provision enables children. He shares his Early Years pedagogy through the '3Ms' and explains how to apply these in the classroom. Greg also explores the definition of play - what it is and what it isn't - and the challenging role of the Early Years teacher.

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Can I Go and Play Now?: Rethinking the Early Years

Terry Russell and Linda McGuigan


Science in the early years is about more than developing understanding of key scientific concepts. It is about encouraging imagination, creativity and curiousity and nurturing key scientific skills to form a firm base for learning. Understanding how best to do this for young children aged 3-7 is the focus of the book. By concentrating on practical and naturally occurring experiences the authors look at meeting the needs of the curriculum with children at the centre of their own learning.

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Exploring Science with Young Children: A Developmental Perspective

Paul Castle and Scott Buckler


Psychology for Teachers explains how psychology can be intelligently applied to the classroom to meet the needs of different learners. It encourages teachers to review their own practice to develop a personal teaching style, supported by research findings and an awareness of the factors underpinning high-quality teaching. Focusing on how an understanding of psychological theory can support effective teaching and learning this book contains case studies and tasks to make sure that trainees really understand how theory can be meaningfully applied in the classroom.

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Psychology for Teachers 2ed

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David Wright, Catherine Camden-Pratt and S

Pbk | 336pp | 9781907359118 | 1/05/2011A$58.99 | NZ$69 | Hawthorn Press

Social Ecology addresses the burning question of how to apply ecological understanding to every aspect of our lives. It provides a holistic framework for change, based on the inter-relationships between the personal, social, environmental, and 'spiritual'. It helps us to understand how we got here, and how to realise more sustainable, caring futures. Students from all disciplines can use this valuable resource to help enrich their learning with social ecology insights and principles.

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EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY

Social Ecology: Applying Ecological Understanding to Our Lives and Our Planet

Jeanne Ballantine and Joan Spade


Schools and Society, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive, integrated overview of the Sociology of Education geared toward upper-level undergraduate courses. It includes original readings and article excerpts by leaders in field and includes theory, methods, classical and current issues.

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Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education 6ed

Karl Aubrey and Alison Riley


If you’re training to teach or studying education, a clear understanding of major educational theories and the thinkers behind them is essential in order to appreciate how different practices impact on learning. This textbook gives you a clear overview of the most influential twentieth and twenty-first century thinkers on education, including established names (including Vygotsky, Bruner, Dewey), more recent writers (such as Freire, Kolb, Claxton) and many other important theorists whose writings have helped shaped our views on teaching and learning.

EDUCATIONAL THEORY

Understanding and Using Educational Theories

Sean MacBlain


Understanding and applying learning theories is crucial to the transition from study or training, to practice in a real-world setting. This new textbook will prepare the reader by demonstrating how key learning theories pan out in practice, with the aid of photographs, examples and clear explanations. Divided into three main sections, Early Influences, Modern Influences, and Challenges for Theorists in a Changing World, this author identifies the key theorists in early childhood, past and present, before linking them to the main issues and developments that face early years practitioners today.

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Learning Theories for Early Years Practice

Lynn Meltzer


This groundbreaking volume, now revised and updated, has given thousands of educators and clinicians a deeper understanding of executive function (EF) processes in typically developing children and those with learning difficulties and developmental disabilities. The text elucidates how PreK–12 students develop such key capacities as goal setting, organisation, cognitive flexibility, working memory, and self-monitoring.

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INCLUSIVE AND SPECIAL EDUCATION

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Rebecca Crutchley


Fully up to date with the SEND Code of Practice, Special Needs in the Early Years: Partnership and Participationexplores all the key contemporary issues relevant to supporting children with special needs in an early years context. Combining theory with practice, it demonstrates how to ensure children's individual needs are at the heart of early years provision. Ebook Available

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Special Needs in the Early Years: Partnership and Participation

Joanne Steer and Kate Horstmann

Pbk | 208pp | 9781843106630 | 1/03/2009A$39.99 | NZ$48.99 | Jessica Kingsley Publishing

Young people with ADHD can struggle to develop the skills they need to adapt to new situations and establish greater independence. This fun and interactive workbook is aimed at actively engaging young people with ADHD and supporting them as they negotiate the pitfalls of growing-up, and the transition to secondary or high school. Each chapter focuses on a different key issue affecting children with ADHD around the time of school transition, such as organisation, friendships, and stress. If left unaddressed, these difficulties can contribute to low self-esteem, behavioural problems and

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Helping Kids and Teens with ADHD in School

John Edwards and William Martin


This text focuses directly on what promotes delivery. It provides the practical tools and implementation guide for re-invigorating your school. Set against a solid blend of international research and international best practice, the narrative is carried by voices from schools that are currently delivering across six countries. They tell it how it is, in lived reality. Every process in the book has been tested and refined under the heat of practice, addressing the current realities in education.

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LEADERSHIP

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Schools That Deliver (Australian Adapted Edition)

Brad Jackson and Ken Parry


The first edition of this popular and acclaimed book quickly became a favourite among students for the engaging way in which it guided them through the cacophony of competing perspectives and models of leadership. The text includes an expanded discussion of hot topics like followership, gender, ethics, authenticity and leadership and the arts set against the backdrop of the global financial crisis.

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A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Leadership 3ed

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Michael Fullan and Joanne Quinn

Pbk | 168pp | 9781483364957 | 4/08/2015A$46.99 | NZ$54.99 | Sage Publications Inc

Complex times call for clear solutions. If initiative overload and fragmentation are keeping your best plans from becoming reality, it’s time to start leading differently. The key to bringing about the kind of successful and sustainable change you need is the Coherence Framework, a dynamic, customisable roadmap made up of four essential components: focused direction to build collective purpose; cultivating collaborative cultures while clarifying individual and team roles; deepening learning to accelerate improvement and foster innovation; and securing

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Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts, and Systems

Margaret Preedy, Nigel Bennett and Christi


This text explores major challenges for educational leaders in managing the increasingly permeable boundary between educational organisations and their external contexts and reconciling environmental expectations and internal priorities. The reader will encourage you to positively problematise the field and reflect on current debates and issues.

Educational Leadership: Context, Strategy and Collaboration

Christine Wise, Marion Cartwright and Pete


Written by leading academics, this volume provides an overview of key contemporary themes in educational leadership. It focuses on developing professional capacity, organisational improvement and the implementation of change, looking at theoretical frameworks and concepts, recent research studies and case examples of effective practice.

Leading Professional Practice in Education

Philip Woods and Amanda Roberts


Collaborative School Leadership takes the idea of distributing leadership in schools to a new level of understanding and practice. The authors address the complexities of leadership by putting forward two essential propositions. The first is the need to understand leadership as the outcome both of people's intentions and the complex flow of interactions in the daily life of schools. The second is the need to integrate values of social justice and democracy into our understanding of leadership.

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Lyn Sharratt and Beate Planche


This resource-rich book provides a straightforward, strategic path to achieving sustainable communities of collaborative learners. Research-proven inquiry techniques, vignettes, case studies and action-oriented protocols help you build strong learning relationships for high-impact student achievement.

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Leading Collaborative Learning: Empowering Excellence

Peter DeWitt


This text focuses on Collaborative Leadership and explains why collaborative leadership (either on its own or in conjunction with transformation and instructional leadership) is preferable to other types of leadership in isolation. It highlights six of John Hattie’s influences that foster collaborative leadership so that leaders can place a laser-like focus on these few influences rather than being overwhelmed by the many.

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Collaborative Leadership: Six Influences That Matter Most

Peter G Northouse and Marie E Lee


Leadership Case Studies in Education 2nd Edition applies leadership theories in educational settings. Designed to be used alongside Leadership: Theory and Practice 8th Edition, this casebook provides relevant, substantive, and contemporary case studies on leadership issues in Higher Education and K-12 Education. Each of the 32 case studies include critical thinking questions that encourage students to apply leadership theory and concepts to real-life situations. Engaging, practical, and relevant, Leadership Case Studies in Education is the perfect companion for

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Leadership Case Studies in Education 2ed

Bob Bates and Andy Bailey


Leading in education is a difficult job to do well. Political, financial and organisational pressures need to be managed smartly and difficult decisions need to be made. Written in Bob Bates' trademark style, this guide offers concise and clear support to help you lead and inspire in education. In collaboration with Andy Bailey -an experienced former headteacher and school inspector with recent Ofsted lead inspection experience, Bob combines practical knowledge of leadership roles in education with robust theories underpinning leadership and management.

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Educational Leadership Simplified: A guide for existing and aspiring leaders

Carol Archer and Iram Siraj


Movement-play, put simply, is encouraging physical activity in a child-led manner for the benefit of children's health, learning and wellbeing. This text looks at the theory behind the importance of movement. A must-read for students on Early Childhood and Early Years courses and Early Years practitioners to improve their practice and understanding of psychical development for the benefit of young children.

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Encouraging Physical Development Through Movement-Play

Phillip Ward and Harry Lehwald

Hbk | 552pp | 9781492543541 | 1/01/2018A$114 | NZ$136 | Human Kinetics Inc

As a physical educator (or student preparing to become one), you need to know more than the skills, techniques, and tactics of the sports and activities you teach. You need to understand, among other things, how to create task progressions, how to organise and adapt those tasks, and how to detect and correct student errors. Effective Physical Education Content and Instructionwill help you learn how to do just that.

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Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction With Web Resource : An Evidence-Based and Teacher-Tested Approach

Alan Launder and Wendy Piltz

Pbk | 256pp | 9780736097000 | 1/03/2013A$69 | NZ$83 | Human Kinetics Inc

Play Practice: Engaging and Developing Skilled Players, Second Edition, provides an alternative to traditional sport instruction. This innovative and authentic approach to teaching sports combines contemporary theory with the experience of practical and reflective work in real sport environments.

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Play Practice : Engaging and Developing Skilled Players From Beginner to Elite 2ed

George Graham, Eloise Elliott and Steve Pa

Pbk | 280pp | 9781450452939 | 3/06/2016A$146 | NZ$173 | Human Kinetics Inc

It’s never been more challenging to teach physical education to children and adolescents. Between managing difficult behaviour and adapting lessons for students with diverse needs, teachers have their hands full. Teaching Children and Adolescents Physical Education: Becoming a Master Teacher has been helping both new and experienced physical educators meet these challenges for many years, and this revised edition has been updated to address many of the new challenges that have emerged in the past decade.

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Julia Lawrence


Physical education is an important part of the primary curriculum and one that provides unique challenges for those involved with its teaching. This text offers a balanced and comprehensive overview of the subject, covering issues such as safe practice in PE, inclusion, subject leadership and cross-curricular approaches supported by an accessible theory-informed approach.Ebook Available

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Teaching Primary Physical Education 2ed

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Derek Haylock and Ralph Manning

Kit | 496pp | 9781446285879 | 18/06/2014A$79 | NZ$94 | Sage Publications Ltd

Mathematics Explained for Primary Teachers 5ed develops students' own understanding of mathematical concepts, and how children learn them, so they can confidently teach mathematics to primary children. Every chapter integrates children’s learning, classroom practice, and the teacher's own requirements for subject knowledge, making this the ideal text to guide students through their studies and beyond.

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PRIMARY TEACHING

Mathematics Explained for Primary Teachers 5ed (Paperback and eBook)

Jane Devereux


Science for Primary and Early Years is a comprehensive guide to the subject knowledge requirements for the teaching of science in early years settings and primary schools. This second edition consists of activities to help the reader extend their own understanding of science. This text is part of the series Developing Subject Knowledge which covers English, Mathematics, and Science and provides authoritative distance learning materials on the national requirements for teaching the primary core curriculum, working with the early years, and achieving qualified teacher status.

Science for Primary and Early Years: Developing Subject Knowledge 2ed

Paul Chambers and Nicholas Souter


Successful science teaching in primary schools requires a careful understanding of key scientific knowledge. This text covers all the major areas of science relevant for beginning primary school teachers, explaining key concepts from the ground up, helping trainees develop into confident science educators. Classroom activities and videos of useful science experiments and demonstrations for the primary classroom are integrated into each chapter to translate concepts into teaching practice.

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Explaining Primary Science

Martin Wenham and Peter Ovens


Now in its third edition, this text provides the background knowledge primary teachers need to plan effective programmes of work and answer children's questions with confidence. The new edition links explanations of scientific concepts with children's everyday experiences to help teachers and trainees foresee how they will present the subject knowledge to their pupils. Shaped by the National Curriculum, this text explains key scientific theories and concepts which pupils at primary level, including very able children, need in order to understand the observations and

Understanding Primary Science (With CD-ROM) 3ed

Helen Caldwell and Steve Cullingford-Agnew


How can primary school teachers use technology to promote inclusive practice? With so many new technologies being developed and made available to schools, how do we ensure that we select resources that enhance inclusive teaching in the classroom? How do we make sure that new technologies are integrated into every day teaching? This new text supports trainee and beginning teachers to harness the power of technology to make their classrooms truly inclusive.

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Technology for SEND in Primary Schools: A guide for best practice

Hilary Cooper and Sally Elton-Chalcraft


This textbook provides a wide-ranging overview of everything you will need to know to prepare you for initial teacher training and your early career in the primary classroom. Covering practical issues including planning, assessment and classroom organisation, and thought-provoking topics such as reflecting on your own teaching practice and developing critical thinking skills, this textbook gives you a pragmatic and insightful understanding of teaching in primary schools.

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Professional Studies in Primary Education 3ed

Jim Gould and Jodi Roffey-Barentsen


This textbook supports the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training for those training to teach in the further education and skills sector. It covers all the mandatory units and has been carefully designed to be the essential guide to successfully achieving the qualification.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Achieving your Diploma in Education and Training 2ed


















Leonie Abrahamson


This text guides you through what you need to know about Early Years Teacher Status step-by-step. It explains how you can work to meet each of the Standards and assessment requirements. The author addresses trainees’ common concerns about early years practice and study skills and meeting EYTS requirements and gives many examples of the strategies that trainees found most helpful. Each chapter explores each aspect of every Standard and indicator, with notes on theory, practical tips, case studies, activities and suggestions for further reading.

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The Early Years Teacher's Book: Achieving Early Years Teacher Status 2ed

Jim Knight

Pbk | 256pp | 9781506307459 | 11/12/2015A$55.99 | NZ$67 | Sage Publications Inc

You don’t want this book - you need this book. Why this confident claim? Think about how many times you’ve walked away from school conversations, sensing they could be more productive, but at a loss for how to improve them. Enter instructional coaching expert Jim Knight, who in Better Conversations honours our capacity for improving our schools by improving our communication. Asserting that our schools are only as good as the conversations within them, Jim shows us how to adopt the habits essential to transforming the quality of our dialogues.

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Better Conversations: Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected

Kevin Hawkins


Former school teacher turned mindfulness consultant Kevin Hawkins truly understands the joys of teaching and the desire to make a real difference in the lives of students, as well as the challenges and risks of burnout that most teachers experience on a daily basis. Combining theory with practice and illustrated with real life stories, teachers new and experienced can learn how to use mindfulness in their own professional and personal lives as well as how to incorporate it in their teaching to support student wellbeing.

Mindful Teacher, Mindful School: Improving Wellbeing in Teaching and Learning

Tom Burns and Sandra Sinfield


Do you want to do better at university? Packed with study tips and handy activities, Essential Study Skills is a proven guide that shows you step-by-step how to study effectively and make the best of your time at university -whatever level you're at. Don't miss in this edition... even more tips and advice on learning methods, online learning and developing job skills - ensuring success throughout your course. Additional case studies and student tips to help you apply the skills you need.

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Essential Study Skills: The Complete Guide to Success at University 4ed

Bob Garvey, Paul Stokes and David Megginso


Drawing on extensive research and the authors' own experiences as coaches and mentors, the book offers a critical perspective on the theory and practice of coaching and mentoring. The Third Edition is split into four parts and has been updated to include the contemporary debates, issues and influences in the field. It features a collection of new international case-studies, drawn from the USA, Africa, Asia and South America, along with an increased emphasis on current topics such as internal coaching schemes, e-technologies and social media.

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Coaching and Mentoring: Theory and Practice 3ed

Roy Blatchford


All teachers and trainee teachers need to work towards and within the framework of the Teachers' Standards. This is the essential guide to the application of these standards in the classroom. The text is written to support teachers and trainee teachers to interpret the standards effectively and independently, and to apply them to their teaching. The chapters mirror the standards themselves and practical guidance and classroom based examples help the reader link theory to practice.

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The Teachers' Standards in the Classroom 3ed

Gillie E J Bolton and Russell Delderfield


Reflecting thoughtfully on your work is vital for improving your own self-awareness, effectiveness and professional development. This newly updated fifth edition of Gillie Bolton’s bestselling book explores reflective writing as a creative and dynamic process for this critical enquiry. This popular book has been used worldwide in various disciplines including education, social work, business and management, medicine and healthcare and is essential reading for student.

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Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development 5ed

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Neil Salkind


Help your students succeed in statistics with this easy-

to-understand and informative bestseller! Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics promises to ease student anxiety around an often intimidating subject with a humorous, personable, and informative approach. Salkind guides students through various statistical procedures, beginning with descriptive statistics, correlation, and graphical representation of data, and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of variance.

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Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics (ISE) 6ed


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Neil J Salkind and Susan Parault Dowds


This Study Guide for introductory statistics courses in education departments is designed to accompany Neil J. Salkind’s bestselling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, Sixth Edition. Extra exercises; activities; and true/false, multiple choice, and essay questions (with answers to all questions) feature education-specific content to help further student mastery of text concepts.

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Study Guide for Education to Accompany Neil J. Salkind's Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics 6ed

Matt Bower

Hbk | 472pp | 9781787141834 | 17/08/2017A$142 | NZ$168 | Emerald Publishing Ltd

This text explains how educational research can inform the design of technology-enhanced learning environments. After laying pedagogical, technological and content foundations, it analyses learning in Web 2.0, Social Networking, Mobile Learning and Virtual Worlds to derive nuanced principles for technology-enhanced learning design.Aust Author

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Design of Technology-Enhanced Learning: Integrating Research and Practice

Mike Lambert


In this basic guide, step-by-step advice is presented in a clear way and chapters take the reader through the entire process, from planning and doing research, to writing it up. Each stage is covered, with detailed help on choosing a topic, drawing up research questions, doing the literature review, choosing and designing research methods, the ethics of doing research, analysing data, and collating and presenting findings.

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A Beginner`s Guide to Doing Your Education Research Project

Keith F Punch and Alis Oancea


This text introduces the research process in a range of educational contexts. In this updated second edition, students will find guidance on every stage of research, with chapters on developing research questions, doing a literature review, collecting data, analysing your findings, and writing it all up. With a new chapter on ethics and additional coverage of Internet research and mixing methods, the second edition contains everything students will need on a research methods course or when conducting a research project.

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Introduction to Research Methods in Education 2ed

Sara Efrat Efron and Ruth Ravid


This accessible, pragmatic text shows educators step-by-step how to conduct classroom and school-based studies to improve instructional practices. The text presents methods and strategies for implementing each stage of the action research cycle, providing balanced coverage of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches. Readers learn how to: select and define a research topic; develop a literature review; choose a design; formulate data collection strategies; design and/or evaluate assessment tools; and interpret, analyse, and report study results.

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Action Research in Education: A Practical Guide

Nancy Fichtman Dana and Diane Yendol-Hoppe


The bestselling Reflective Educator's Guide to Classroom Research offers a clear, step-by-step description of the classroom research process. Using actual teacher voices and real-life examples, as well as advocating collaborative teacher inquiry, it is popular both for its authenticity and its inviting style.

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The Reflective Educator`s Guide to Classroom Research: Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn Through Practitioner Inquiry 3ed

Nathan Richard Durdella


Qualitative Dissertation Methodology: A Guide for Research Design and Methods functions as a dissertation advisor to help students construct and write a qualitative methodological framework for their research. Drawing from the challenges author Nathan Durdella has experienced while supervising students, the book breaks down producing the dissertation chapter into smaller pieces and goes through each portion of the methodology process step by step.

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Qualitative Dissertation Methodology: A Guide for Research Design and Methods

Penny Mukherji and Deborah Albon


Exploring research methods in the context of early childhood, this popular guide approaches complex ideas in a clear style linking directly to practice. It covers all students need to know about undertaking research in early childhood, including action research, ethics and carrying out a research project.

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Research Methods in Early Childhood: An Introductory Guide 3ed

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Guy Roberts-Holmes


This bestselling guide to undertaking your Early Years research project takes the reader on a practical step-by-step journey. Breaking down each section into accessible and digestible topics, and accompanied by a multitude of practical examples, case studies, research summaries and key points, the author brings this process to life. From learning how to structure and organise your project, through to the final presentation and written report of your findings, this is the essential guide and companion for students throughout their early childhood and social science courses.

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Doing Your Early Years Research Project: A Step by Step Guide 4ed

William Bukowski, Brett Laursen and Kennet

Hbk | 748pp | 9781462525010 | 12/04/2018A$169 | NZ$199 | Guilford Publications Inc

The definitive handbook on peer relations has now been significantly revised with 55% new material. Bringing together leading authorities, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the dynamics of peer interactions, their impact on multiple aspects of social development, and the causes and consequences of peer difficulties. From friendships and romance to social withdrawal, aggression, and victimisation, all aspects of children's and adolescents' relationships are explored.

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SOCIAL SKILLS AND BEHAVIOUR

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Handbook of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups 2ed

Matthew Burns, T Chris Riley-Tillman and N

Hbk | 378pp | 9781462526147 | 7/09/2017A$99 | NZ$118 | Guilford Publications Inc

This indispensable course text and practitioner resource, now fully revised, has helped tens of thousands of readers implement evidence-based interventions to improve students' academic achievement and behaviour in PreK-12. The book presents best-practice guidelines and step-by-step procedures for 83 interventions that can easily be implemented by teachers and other school-based professionals. It is a go-to resource for those working in a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) or response-to-intervention (RTI) framework.

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Effective School Interventions: Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Student Outcomes 3ed

Linda M Bambara, Rachel Janney and Martha

Pbk | 224pp | 9781598578867 | 31/03/2015A$63 | NZ$75 | Brookes Publishing Co.

The revised and expanded edition of a popular and trusted book, Behavior Support 3ed is your guide to implementing effective positive behaviour support (PBS). Students get explicit, research-based strategies for implementing the three tiers of PBS: universal, school-wide interventions; selected interventions with students exhibiting risk behaviours; and specialised interventions with students who need intensive, individualised help. Packed with updated strategies on hot topics, this new edition supports positive changes in students' behaviour.

Behavior Support 3ed

Bill Rogers


This exciting new edition of the bestselling and beloved teacher's companion looks at the everyday behaviour issues facing teachers working in today's classrooms. Describing real situations and dilemmas, Bill Rogers provides theoretically sound strategies and best practices to support you in meeting the challenges of the job, as well as building up a rapport with both students and colleagues to enable positive and productive learning environments.

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Classroom Behaviour: A Practical Guide to Effective Teaching, Behaviour Management and Colleague Support 4ed

James Nottingham, Jill Nottingham and Mart


There is substantial evidence that teachers currently talk too much in classes, often only waiting 0.8 seconds after asking a question before jumping in with the answer if a student doesn't quickly volunteer. In this book, the authors define the qualities of the best type of dialogue and provide practical strategies and examples for how teachers can lead productive discussions.Aust Author

Challenging Learning Through Dialogue: Strategies to Engage Your Students and Develop Their Language of Learning (International Edition)

James Nottingham and Jill Nottingham


This book shows how to use the ASK taxonomy to provide clarity for students, and then specifically craft feedback to address their learning goals. Teachers and educators will find: how to know when your feedback is (and isn't) working; how to craft feedback; vignettes of feedback done right and wrong; practical strategies; and how to teach students to provide feedback.Aust Author

Challenging Learning Through Feedback: How to Get the Type, Tone, and Quality of Feedback Right Every Time (International Edition)

Sue Roffey


Standing in front of a class of students is challenging enough, but what if they just won't behave? This text will tell you how to start off on the right foot as a new teacher, and how to look after yourself as well as your classes. Chapters will help you to build up your confidence and awareness, develop positive relationships with your students, create supportive bonds with colleagues, and manage disruptive, distressed, and defiant students calmly.

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Sue Roffey


First published as Circle Time for Emotional Literacy, this new edition has been updated to reflect how the Circle Solutions philosophy and pedagogy can be used to build relationships and resilience for children and young people. Putting current research on wellbeing into practice, Circle Solutions addresses issues not incidents, solutions rather than problems, and strengths rather than deficits, providing a framework for student engagement and learning.

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TEACHING RESOURCES

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Circle Solutions for Student Wellbeing 2ed

Peter Atherton


This is a practical guide to the use of technology enhanced learning (TEL) in the classroom. Introducing 50 ways to use technology for learning. Areas covered include: gamified learning; social media; video streaming; the flipped classroom; instant feedback tools; and many more. Guidance on how to use these technologies for learning is complemented by an exploration of their impact on learning. For each example, the opportunities for evidencing progress are evaluated.

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50 Ways to Use Technology Enhanced Learning in the Classroom: Practical strategies for teaching

Daniel Muijs and David Reynolds


This new edition of the popular textbook digs into the research behind different aspects of teaching in order to give students an informed understanding of what underpins high quality teaching. It explores what the evidence shows about the effectiveness of different approaches, drawing from a variety of educational schools of thought.Ebook Available

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Effective Teaching: Evidence and Practice 4ed

Claire Warden


This text centres on outstanding outdoor practice and how children can learn and develop in natural environments. Focussing on children aged from 2-11 this book contains a self-evaluation toolkit for educators to reflect on what they're doing now and where to develop to be more effective; examples of practice from around the world and in various environments, including urban settings; and an entire chapter on assessment and planning to help ensure and demonstrate quality of provision.

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Learning with Nature: Embedding Outdoor Practice

Glenda Walsh, Dorothy McMillan and Carol M


Informed by international research along with contrasting perspectives on different forms of play, this text supports students in understanding how teaching and learning through play is embedded in global early childhood curriculum and what this actually means in practice.

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Playful Teaching and Learning

Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey

Pbk | 208pp | 9781506338538 | 1/11/2016A$59.99 | NZ$71 | Sage Publications Inc

This text is the practical manual on HOW to personalise learning that teachers have been craving since being wowed by Bray and McClaskey's bestselling first book Make Learning Personal: The What, Who, Wow, Where, and Why. In this field guide, the authors take classroom teachers more deeply into the journey to personalise learning, giving them the tools, skills, and resources they need to level the playing field and start personalising learning for all of their students.

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How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper

Anita L Archer and Charles A Hughes


Explicit instruction is systematic, direct, engaging, and success oriented and has been shown to promote achievement for all students. This highly practical and accessible resource gives special and general education teachers the tools to implement explicit instruction in any grade level or content area. The authors are leading experts who provide clear guidelines for identifying key concepts, skills, and routines to teach; designing and delivering effective lessons; and giving students opportunities to practice and master new material.

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Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching

Maura Sellars


Reflective Practice for Teachers explores a range of key issues that you will need to engage with during your teacher preparation and early career in the classroom in order to deepen your understanding of teaching practice. Case studies and ‘What does this mean for you?’ boxes in every chapter take ideas from research and show how they can apply to the real world of teaching. This second edition has been updated with: a new chapter on assessment; extended discussion of metacognition in the classroom; critical perspective on what we really know about brain-based learning; further

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