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An Essential Introduction to Language and Linguistics for Teachers
In order to teach the National Curriculum for English effectively, teachers often lack one of the most vital key skills required: a high level of...
June 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42175-1 (Routledge)
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The Really Useful Creativity Book
What is creativity and how do we teach it?
The Really Useful Creativity Book provides approaches and ideas that will enable children to develop their...
October 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45696-8 (Routledge)
The Newly Qualified Teacher's Handbook
The Newly Qualified Teacher’s Handbook is an essential companion for all new teachers. Practical, comprehensive and lively, this invaluable guide covers all aspects of your...
August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44596-2 (Routledge)
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The American Teacher
Foundations of Education
The American Teacher is a comprehensive education foundations text with an emphasis on the historical continuity of educational issues and their practical application in the...
July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96387-9 (Routledge)
Foundations of Primary Teaching
The need to achieve the latest QTS standards for teaching can often stifle innovation and reflective thinking. Written specifically to help guide student teachers through...
May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45232-8 (David Fulton Publis)
Principles of Primary Education, Third Edition
This study guide has been revised to give practical guidance on the new standards for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and updated in line with the...
April 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45324-0 (David Fulton Publis)
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Culture in School Learning
Revealing the Deep Meaning
In this text Etta Hollins presents a powerful process for developing a teaching perspective that embraces the centrality of culture in school learning. The six-part...
February 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-4108-4 (Routledge)
The Really Useful Literacy Book
Being Creative with Literacy in the Primary Classroom
The Really Useful Literacy Book provides inventive ideas for the classroom together with an accessible and informative summary of the theories that underpin them. Written...
January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43165-1 (Routledge)
The Digital Classroom
Harnessing Technology for the Future of Learning and Teaching
Based on a major research project (the InterActive Project), this book explores and illustrates how digital technologies can transform learning across the curriculum. Using a...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-445-0 (David Fulton Publis)
Understanding Primary Education
Developing professional attributes, knowledge and skills
Understanding Primary Education will help trainees and newly qualified teachers reflect on the professional decisions they need to make within their planning and classroom practice. The...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39924-1 (Routledge)
Reading Under Control
Teaching Reading in the Primary School
Now in an updated third edition, this best-selling textbook introduces primary teachers to the key issues in how to teach reading. The authors celebrate reading...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-461-0 (David Fulton Publis)
Creative Teaching: Mathematics in the Early Years and Primary Classroom
Creative Teaching is not only for the arts: this unique and stimulating book shows how mathematics and mathematics teaching can be creative, exciting and enjoyable....
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-462-7 (David Fulton Publis)
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Learning to Read Across Languages
Cross-Linguistic Relationships in First- and Second-Language Literacy Development
This book systematically examines how learning to read occurs in diverse languages, and in so doing, explores how literacy is learned in a second language...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5612-5 (Routledge)
English 3–11
A Guide for Teachers
In line with the National Primary Strategy, this core introductory textbook provides comprehensive, up-to-date and, most importantly, creative guidance on teaching English in the early...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-443-6 (David Fulton Publis)
Physical Education and Development 3–11
A Guide for Teachers
Physical education plays a vital role in children’s development, health and well-being, and is an increasingly important part of the government’s strategy for healthy schools....
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-456-6 (David Fulton Publis)
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Motivation for Achievement
Possibilities for Teaching and Learning
Understanding student and teacher motivation and developing strategies to foster motivation for students at all levels of performance are essential to effective teaching. This text...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6048-1 (Routledge)
Creating Critical Classrooms
K-8 Reading and Writing With an Edge
This book for elementary and middle school teachers and literacy methods courses articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy instruction. Critical literacy practices encourage students...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6231-7 (Routledge)
Where's the Wonder in Elementary Math?
Encouraging Mathematical Reasoning in the Classroom
This book argues that even in today's high-stakes testing environment, 'teaching to the test' need not be teachers’ only focus as they introduce young children to mathematics. Judith McVarish...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95716-8 (Routledge)
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Engaging Minds
Changing Teaching in Complex Times
Engaging Minds is an introduction to current interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning to teach. It offers practical suggestions for teachers in the context of...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6287-4 (Routledge)
Teaching Science to Every Child
Using Culture as a Starting Point
Teaching Science to Every Child proposes a fresh perspective for teaching school science and draws upon an extensive body of classroom research to meaningfully address...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95637-6 (Routledge)
Getting Science
The Teacher's Guide to Exciting and Painless Primary School Science
Science is rightly a fundamental part of primary school education, but that doesn’t make it easy to teach - especially for teachers without a science...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42199-7 (Routledge)
Creative Teaching: English in the Early Years and Primary Classroom
Presenting a range of exciting activities that support the development of creative English lessons within the existing structures of the Foundation Curriculum and the National...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-260-9 (David Fulton Publis)
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Reading and Teaching
Reading and Teaching raises questions and provides a context for preservice and practicing teachers to understand and to reflect on the complex issues surrounding the...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5429-9 (Routledge)
Mathematical Knowledge for Primary Teachers, Third Edition
Now in its third edition, this best-selling text provides rigorous and comprehensive coverage of the mathematical subject knowledge required for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Offering...
2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-424-5 (David Fulton Publis)
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Progression in Primary ICT
Providing an overview of the current context of ICT teaching within the primary classroom and an analysis of how to progress with it in order...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-308-8 (David Fulton Publis)
History 3-11
A Guide for Teachers
Replacing the best-selling The Teaching of History in Primary Schools, acclaimed author Hilary Cooper returns with this invaluable resource, showing how to sustain a dynamic...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-459-7 (David Fulton Publis)
Maths and ICT in the Primary School
A Creative Approach
By clearly outlining how ICT can enhance and improve children’s learning, this book shows how to unleash the full potential of ICT within the classroom....
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-377-4 (David Fulton Publis)
Creative Teaching Science in the Early Years and Primary Classroom
Practical, useful and informative, this book provides ideas and suggestions on how to interpret and develop the primary science curriculum in an interesting and challenging...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-259-3 (David Fulton Publis)
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Modern Foreign Languages 5-11
A Guide for Teachers
Foreign language teaching is a flourishing area of the primary curriculum and can offer many valuable, enriching and enjoyable learning experiences for children. Written to...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-390-3 (David Fulton Publis)
Supporting Inclusive Practice
Written to support all teaching and learning staff in developing good inclusive practice, this book provides knowledge and understanding about a range of inclusion issues...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-420-7 (David Fulton Publis)
The Teaching of Science in Primary Schools
Providing an up-to-date discussion of the many aspects of teaching primary science, this best-selling book contains a strong focus on constructivist learning and the role...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-132-9 (David Fulton Publis)
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Learning to Teach in the Primary School
This comprehensive new textbook provides valuable support to student teachers on primary ITT, BEd and PGCE courses. It provides a sound and practical introduction to...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35928-3 (Routledge)
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Geography 3-11
A Guide for Teachers
The advent of the National Primary Strategy has produced a welcome reminder to teachers of the importance of geography within the primary curriculum. This book...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-421-4 (David Fulton Publis)
Unlocking Speaking and Listening
The teaching of speaking and listening has again been identified as central to children's learning and literacy development, yet it is an area in which...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-392-7 (David Fulton Publis)
Unlocking Learning and Teaching with ICT
Identifying and Overcoming Barriers
By clearly identifying the barriers that can still exist to the successful integration of ICT in schools this book aims to suggest ways in which...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-376-7 (David Fulton Publis)
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The Really Useful Science Book
A Framework of Knowledge for Primary Teachers
Written for classroom teachers and those in training, this book has been designed to support and extend teachers' and students' own knowledge and understanding of...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38593-0 (Routledge)
Literacy and ICT in the Primary School
A Creative Approach to English
By clearly outlining how ICT can enhance and improve children’s learning, this book unlocks the full potential of ICT within the classroom. Stimulating, useful and...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-374-3 (David Fulton Publis)
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Teaching Mathematics
A Handbook for Primary and Secondary School Teachers
A practical introduction to Maths teaching designed specifically for beginning teachers in primary and secondary schools. It brings together the latest DfES and TTA guidelines...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33517-1 (Routledge)
Unlocking Literacy
A Guide for Teachers
An edited collection describing key issues in supporting literacy development, this book helps to 'unlock' the mysteries behind helping children learn to read, write, speak...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-386-6 (David Fulton Publis)
Science Knowledge for Primary Teachers
Understanding the Science in the QCA Scheme
Specifically structured around the QCA schemes of work, this book focuses upon developing the science subject knowledge of the reader up to the standards needed...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-188-6 (David Fulton Publis)
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Teaching Speaking and Listening in the Primary School
Speaking and listening, along with reading and writing, are essential components of literacy and learning development within the National Primary Strategy. This best-selling introductory text...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-255-5 (David Fulton Publis)
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Understanding and Teaching the ICT National Curriculum
There is still great uncertainty in the teaching profession regarding the effective delivery of ICT. This introductory book provides both trainee and practising teachers with...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-133-6 (David Fulton Publis)
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The Literate Classroom, Second Edition
Updated to introduce topics within the context of the new Primary Strategy and the National Literacy Strategy, this edited collection provides sound advice and practical...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-318-7 (David Fulton Publis)
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Teaching and Learning Literacy
Reading and Writing Texts for a Purpose
David Wray offers a range of practical suggestions for enhancing literacy work in primary and secondary schools (KS 1-3). The book is based on the...2005 | Paperback: 978-1-85346-717-2 (David Fulton Publis)
Speaking, Listening and Drama
Written for practicing and trainee English and Drama specialists, this text clarifies what constitutes useful knowledge about spoken English and how pupils aged 11-16 can...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-041-4 (David Fulton Publis)
Understanding Primary Mathematics
In this textbook, the foundations of mathematics are made explicit and the reader is guided through the background knowledge and understanding that are required for...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-012-4 (David Fulton Publis)
Unlocking Creativity
A Teacher's Guide to Creativity Across the Curriculum
Showing how creativity can be developed across the curriculum, this book offers advice on how to develop children's capacity for creative thinking and achievement and...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-092-6 (David Fulton Publis)
Science 5-11
A Guide for Teachers
Bringing together two important strands of qualified teacher status (QTS), this uniquely organized book presents the development of effective subject knowledge within the context of...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-319-4 (David Fulton Publis)
Professional Studies in the Primary School
Thinking Beyond the Standards
Full of school-based examples supplied by practicing teachers, this accessible text:
- encourages trainees to "think beyond the standards"
- promotes the development of reflective, creative and imaginative teaching...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-206-7 (David Fulton Publis)
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Creative Teaching: History in the Primary Classroom
Designed specifically for teachers with little subject knowledge or experience in history, this book provides trainees with the confidence they need to teach primary history....
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-115-2 (David Fulton Publis)
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The Really Useful Maths Book
A Guide to Interactive Teaching
The Really Useful Maths book has been written for all those who want children to enjoy the challenge of learning mathematics. It presents teachers and students...
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25208-9 (Routledge)
Teaching English
A Handbook for Primary and Secondary School Teachers
This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to teaching English in primary and secondary schools. It brings together the latest standards with authoritative guidance, ensuring that readers...
2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33527-0 (Routledge)
Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT
A Guide to the ITTNC
This practical guide to using ICT in the primary classroom addresses all the concerns of student teachers and provides plenty of ideas and advice on...
2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23047-6 (Routledge)
Meeting the Standards in Primary English
A Guide to ITT NC
This straightforward guide to the professional standards and requirements for primary teachers illustrates the best ways of developing knowledge and how to acquire the skills...
2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23090-2 (Routledge)
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Philosophy and Educational Policy
A Critical Introduction
What are the concepts and theories behind current debates about education?
This comprehensive introduction to philosophy of education discusses issues that are of current public interest...
2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36958-9 (Routledge)
Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum
Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides...
2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31918-8 (Routledge)
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Planning, Teaching and Class Management in Primary Schools, Second Edition
This second edition has been fully updated in line with the standards for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) 202. It will prepare student (trainee) teachers to...
2004 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-018-6 (David Fulton Publis)
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Science and ICT in the Primary School
A Creative Approach to Big Ideas
With a strong focus on helping children to learn the 'big ideas' in science, this book provides detailed and practical guidance on how to use...
2004 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-120-6 (David Fulton Publis)
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An Introduction to Teaching
A Handbook for Primary and Secondary School Teachers
The expectations of what it is to be a teacher are as high as ever. An Introduction to Teaching, which is the second edition of...
2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33531-7 (Routledge)
Information and Communications Technology in Primary Schools, Second Edition
Children or Computers in Control?
This new edition takes into account advances in software and technology such as interactive whiteboards and digital cameras, focusing upon how these new resources can...
2003 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-042-1 (David Fulton Publis)
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Meeting the Standards in Primary Mathematics
A Guide to the ITT NC
This book guides readers through the professional standards and requirements to reach Qualified Teacher Status, explaining what trainees need to know. The author discusses the...
2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24986-7 (Routledge)
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Making Progress in Primary Science
A Handbook for Inservice and Preservice Course Leaders
This new and extensively revised edition of Progress in Primary Science is intended for all those involved in training teachers of primary school science, both...
2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27673-3 (Routledge)
Coordinating Geography Across the Primary School
Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for co-ordinating a subject area within their primary school. Each volume in the series conforms to a...1998 | Paperback: 978-0-7507-0692-6 (Routledge)
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