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Primary Science: Teaching Theory and Practice (PDF)
by Diane Harris Rob Johnsey Shirley Simon Robin Smith Alan Cross Graham Peacock John SharpThe essential teaching theory and practice text for primary science. Covering the key skills of planning, monitoring and assessment and class management, it relates these specifically to primary science.</p
Positive and Trusting Relationships with Children in Early Years Settings
by Jessica JohnsonTo attain EYPS, candidates must demonstrate that they can establish fair, respectful, trusting and constructive relationships with children. This book helps those on EYPS pathways to understand and develop these important relationships. It begins by examining trust as a key theme and goes on to discuss how to 'tune in' to individual children and how to 'tune out' or say goodbye. It gives practical advice on helping children build resilience and take risks. Positive relationships with children are examined within the context of relationships with others and the text also considers how practitioners can support other professionals in their setting.
Play and Practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage (PDF)
by Natalie CanningPlay is an underlying theme of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) but it is often a challenge for practitioners to provide a play based curriculum.
Planning the Primary National Curriculum: a Complete Guide for Trainees and Teachers (PDF)
by Keira SewellTo prepare to teach the new Primary National Curriculum, you need more than just the Programmes of Study. You need a resource to help you understand, plan for, teach and assess the curriculum. This is it! Your guide to planning the 2014 primary national curriculum. This book explores how to plan in primary schools. It covers curriculum design and structure, challenges to learning, and how children learn. For each curriculum subject the programme of study is included, with notes to help you interpret it for your own class. The text covers how the teaching of each subject can be organised, assessment opportunities, key and essential resources in each subject, and how ICT can best be used in each subject to enhance teaching. Sequenced lesson examples in all subject chapters link theory to practice and highlight progression. The final section of the book explores the many ways in which the curriculum can be delivered. The creative curriculum, dialogic teaching, cross curricular learning and more current thinking about interpreting the curriculum.
Play and Learning in the Early Years: from Research to Practice (PDF)
by Pat Broadhead Elizabeth Ann Wood Justine HowardProviding high quality play experiences is an essential part of good early years education, but this can pose a challenge for practitioners who face pressure from a more didactic primary curriculum, and from parents worried that their children will fail to acquire essential skills and knowledge.
Young Heroes: Pepik (PDF)
by Nicola KovacsPepik is a young boy living in a country controlled by fear. He doesn't understand what is going on, but he knows that his parents want to escape. They need to trick the guards and cross the border into another country. Will Pepik be able to help them reach freedom?
Planning and Enabling Learning in the Lifelong Learning Sector
by Ann Gravells Susan SimpsonPlanning and Enabling Learning is a core unit of the Lifelong Learning teaching qualifications. This book addresses all the required learning outcomes and content of that unit, specifically targeted at learners taking the Certificate or Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS or DTLLS). This second edition includes a new feature for those aiming for level 4 achievement and is updated throughout with the latest concepts and terminology. Easy to read with practical activities and examples, this text is also fully linked to the QTLS Standards and the Minimum Core, making it essential reading for this unit.
Physical Education: Essential Issues (PDF)
by Ken Green`For any student of physical education, Physical Education provides an excellent springboard from which to explore theoretical aspects of their subject. The list of authors reads like a who's who of PE and the extensive list of references provides opportunities to investigate areas of interest in more depth' - John Matthews, Chief Executive PEA UK.
Planning your Essay (PDF)
by Janet GodwinA practical guide to planning and writing different types of essays for university students in a neat pocket size
Read Write Inc. Phonics, Green, Set 1, Story 9: Pip's Pizza (PDF)
by Gill Munton Ruth MiskinPip and Zip are aliens. Pip has rolled out some pizza dough and added egg and nuts. Zip is sniffing the air... mmmm! It smells delicious at the moment, but I don't think Pip really knows what else should go on the top of a pizza. What do you think he might add?
Passing the UKCAT and BMAT 2010 (PDF)
by Rosalie Hutton Glenn Hutton Felicity TaylorThis revised and updated 2010 edition is now the most comprehensive guide available to the UK Clinical Aptitude Test and BMAT. Readers will find all they need to face the tests with confidence, fulfil their potential and succeed in their application - whichever universities they are applying to. In addition to an extensive and comprehensive bank of questions, this essential text takes would-be doctors through everything they need to know from writing their personal statements and preparing for interviews to time management and test-taking strategies.
Passing the UKCAT and BMAT 2010 (PDF)
by Rosalie Hutton Glenn Hutton Felicity TaylorThis revised and updated 2010 edition is now the most comprehensive guide available to the UK Clinical Aptitude Test and BMAT. Readers will find all they need to face the tests with confidence, fulfil their potential and succeed in their application - whichever universities they are applying to. In addition to an extensive and comprehensive bank of questions, this essential text takes would-be doctors through everything they need to know from writing their personal statements and preparing for interviews to time management and test-taking strategies.
Passing the Police Recruit Assessment Process
by Peter CoxThis practical and accessible book is an essential purchase for anyone applying to become a police officer. With competition for jobs increasing, thorough preparation prior to assessment is more important than ever. This book is full of clear advice and guidance as well as providing essential practice in all areas of the recruitment process, from completing the application form, excelling at the written and verbal exercises, to passing the psychometric tests. Carefully structured around the seven core competencies assessed during recruitment, the book reinforces the skills and understandings necessary to become a police officer while increasing individual confidence and competence.
Passing the Numeracy Skills Test (PDF)
by Mark PatmoreAll trainee teachers hoping to gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) need to pass a computerised numeracy skills test. The test is designed to ensure they have a sound grasp of numeracy skills such as mental arithmetic and interpreting statistics, and can apply these in their work. This book outlines the test requirements and explains the essential subject knowledge needed. Fully updated to comply with the TDA standards, this edition also includes a glossary and suggestions for further reading. At least 100 practice questions and answers enable trainees to prepare to complete their test confidently and successfully.
Passionate Leadership in Education (PDF)
by Tim Brighouse Brent DaviesWhat sustains and drives leaders to achieve in a changing and challenging educational environment? What maintains their passion for education and children's achievement?
Passing The Numeracy Skills Test (PDF)
by Mark PatmoreAll trainee teachers working towards Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) must pass a computerised numeracy skills test.
Passing The UKCAT And BMAT 2012 (PDF)
by Rosalie HuttonThis revised and updated 2012 edition is the most comprehensive guide available to the UKCAT and BMAT. You will find all you need to face the tests with confidence, fulfill your potential and succeed in your application - whichever universities you are applying to.
Passing the UKCAT and BMAT 2011 (PDF)
by Glenn HuttonThis revised and updated 2011 edition is the most comprehensive guide available to the UKCAT and BMAT. Readers will find all they need to face the tests with confidence, fulfil their potential and succeed in their application - whichever universities they are applying to.
Penny Tassoni's Practical EYFS Handbook (PDF)
by Penny TassoniWritten by Penny Tassoni so you can be sure that you're getting the best advice on the new framework. Penny's practical approach to implementing revisions to the EYFS makes it easy to understand and transfer successful ideas into your own setting/assignments. Activities to support children's learning have been matched directly to the areas of development in the revised EYFS framework. Includes a new section on resources for use in early years settings. Like the first edition, this resource will be ideal for students and practitioners in any early years setting, including Childminders.
Passing the Oxbridge Admissions Tests
by Rosalie Hutton Glenn HuttonStudents applying to Oxbridge are increasingly required to sit Oxbridge-specific admissions tests. These are usually aptitude tests, consisting of multiple-choice questions focused on critical thinking and problem solving skills. The most widely used is the Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA). This book introduces candidates to critical thinking and problem solving skills and their use in answering test questions. It includes a practice test, similar to the TSA, with answers and explanations and also guidance on the TSA Writing Task undertaken by applicants to Oxford. The book also refers to the tests for English, History, Physics, Mathematics and Computer Sciences.
Law And The Humanities: An Introduction
by Austin Sarat: Matthew D. Anderson: Cathrine O. FrankLaw and the Humanities: An Introduction brings together a distinguished group of scholars from law schools and an array of the disciplines in the humanities. Contributors come from the United States and abroad in recognition of the global reach of this field. This book is, at one and the same time, a stock taking both of different national traditions and of the various modes and subjects of law and humanities scholarship. It is also an effort to chart future directions for the field. By reviewing and analyzing existing scholarship and providing thematic content and distinctive arguments, it offers to its readers both a resource and a provocation. Thus, Law and the Humanities marks the maturation of this 'law and' enterprise and will spur its further development.
Researching Educational Leadership and Management (PDF)
by Mark BrundrettCarrying out leadership research in educational establishments can be challenging, but it is also rewarding. This accessible book offers sound practical advice and a clear conceptual framework for this research.
Research Training For Social Scientists: A Handbook For Postgraduate Researchers (PDF)
by Diana BurtonWith indispensable advice for students from all social science backgrounds, this handbook provides the core conceptual and practical skills to embark on succesful research.
Creativity in Primary Education
by Anthony WilsonA sound understanding of the role primary creativity plays in learning and teaching will help trainee teachers become creative practitioners and develop creativity in their pupils. The second edition of this popular text retains key material from the previous book, but it has been substantially updated and revised to include six new chapters which explore creativity in both a subject specific context as well as the broader issues of creativity in SMSC and the Foundation Stage. The book is linked throughout to the Standards for the award of QTS and also considers important government agendas such as Every Child Matters.
Bug Club, Blue A/4B: Blue A/4B (PDF) (BUG CLUB)
by Alison HawesIn this Year 5 Blue A (NC level 4b) non-fiction book: Ruth Trotter's Uncle 'Globe' is no ordinary uncle - he has lots of exciting adventures! What's more, he often needs Ruth's help. This time he's coming back to England to protect a creature in danger. Ruth must find out about the amazing underwater world of the UK's coastline. The only question is - will Ruth solve Globe's challenge and get her reward?