Elementary category: 2214 books
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today
Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great...
Rethinking Children's Rights
Attitudes in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and...
by Nam Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
I can show you the best way to learn ABC!
The next step is yours!
Are you ready to start learning to read and write ABC?
ABC Around The World For Children is ideal for giving
your kids a head-start in learning, singing, tracing, ABC fill in the blanks, ABC Cut-Outs and coloring the alphabet.
Bonus:...
Primary Teaching Today
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Primary Teaching Today takes the reader ‘behind the scenes’ and alerts them to the fundamental attitudes and practices that every new primary teacher must acquire to make a success of their work and, crucially, to get maximum enjoyment while doing so.
With a friendly narrative style and...
by Paul Barron
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
A collection of 150 unique games and activities to help support teaching of maths in the primary classroom.
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Designed with busy teachers in mind, the Classroom Gems series draws together an extensive selection of practical, tried-and-tested, off-the-shelf ideas, games and activities...
by Sue Colverd, Bernard Hodgkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Do you want to promote sociability and positive behaviour in your classroom?
Is having an ‘emotionally intelligent classroom’ one of your teaching goals?
Are you looking for ways to teach the curriculum more ‘creatively’?
Developing Emotional Intelligence in the Primary...
The Reception Year in Action, revised and updated edition
A month-by-month guide to success in the classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
‘The Reception Year in Action will take the understanding of outdoor play, teaching and learning to a new level. Everyone who is involved with early years education and care should read this book!’
Helen Bilton, University of Reading, UK
‘This is a fantastic book... it shows exactly...
Grammar at School
Research on Metalinguistic Activity in Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The studies presented in this book argue that exploring the grammatical system outside the communicative flow enables students to develop clearer knowledge of this system and to become more effective in their language use.
This approach is the outcome of research revolving around the role of metalinguistic...
by Linda Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In order to have a strong understanding of primary English, teachers need to understand how children learn reading, writing and language, and how these develop throughout childhood.
Covering the interconnected areas of speaking, listening, reading and writing, and aware of the new National...
Understanding Reading Comprehension
Processes and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Can baboons read? That is the thought-provoking question that opens this wonderfully accessible book for trainee and practising primary school teachers to fully understand the process of reading comprehension. Comprehension is an essential component of learning to read and a successful teacher of...
Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys
From «Vergueenza» to «Échale Ganas»
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys presents an ethnographic portrait of the experiences and counterstories of nine Latino teenage boys representing different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds attending a high school in North Carolina. Using critical race theory (CRT), Latino...
Every Person Is a Philosopher
Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect...
Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power
White Facultys Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power: White Faculty’s Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms is a collection of narratives that will transform the teaching of any faculty member who teaches in the STEM system. The book links issues of inclusion to teacher excellence at...
Men Teaching Children 3-11
Dismantling Gender Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Men Teaching Children 3-11 provides a comprehensive exploration of work experiences of men who teach young children. The authors draw on their own research as well as international studies to provide realistic strategies to help to remove barriers in order to develop a more gender-balanced teacher...