Elementary category: 2214 books
by Dr Martin W Wenham, Dr Peter Ovens
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
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...
Science Knowledge for Primary Teachers
Understanding the Science in the QCA Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
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 for QTS. It provides:
clear explanations of the major science "concepts" a primary teacher needs to teach the National Curriculum...
Stories For Circle Time and Assembly
Developing Literacy Skills and Classroom Values
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Circle time is a very popular activity in today’s schools and creates a safe, fun environment where children can think about their relationships, their behaviour, and be honest about their problems and feelings.
In this book, the highly successful and popular author Mal Leicester offers a...
I Am Smart in Different Ways!
My Smarts Superpowers!
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Activate your Smarts Superpowers to strengthen your brain and learning!
Tricky Thinking Problems
Advanced Activities in Applied Thinking Skills for Ages 6-11
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Classroom questions have traditionally focussed on testing the recall, understanding and application of content and methods. Research suggests that pupils require activities that encourage them to think flexibly about possibilities and to make independent judgements about information.
Tricky...
by Ian Roberts, Brian Moses
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book will support children as they:
* Write a school report for a Victorian pupil
* Compile the biography of a real-life circus performer- "The Human Canon Ball"
* Produce a letter to complain about the after-effects of the Victorian remedy carbolic smoke balls!
by Paul Chambers, Nicholas Souter
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Successful science teaching in primary schools requires a careful understanding of key scientific knowledge. This book 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...
White Women Getting Real About Race
Their Stories About What They Learned Teaching in Diverse Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“The women writing the chapters of this volume are so different, one from the other, so intricate in their knowledge and understanding, and so open in describing their failures and mistakes, that they present us with a panoply of experiences. And from this panoply we take a selection of lessons learned....
Hidden Dangers to Kids' Learning
A Parent Guide to Cope with Educational Roadblocks
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
This second edition to Hidden Dangers to Kid’s Learning: Parent Guide to Cope with
Educational Roadblocks gives more insight into waysparents can understand and help their academically struggling child. Parents and their children can be empowered to recognize the perils and the pitfalls of our current...
by Tony Bradman
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Finn wants to be a Viking warrior, and seek adventure and glory in far-off lands, not become chieftan of a farming village like his father. But then, when his father has been summoned away to another island, Finn is left in charge, and danger strikes. With the village under siege and only Finn and...
Sacred Sky
And How to Locate 24 Constellations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Would you like to be able to find many constellations in the sky? This is a good beginner handbook with lots of instructions and hints on finding constellations, such as the Big and Little Dipper, Cassiopeia, Orion, and many others. It shows the winter triangle and the summer triangle, each composed...
SAFE and Fun Playgrounds
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Play is important for cognitive, emotional, and physical development of children. Use the four components experts have identified for safety: supervision, age-appropriate design, fall-surfacing that contains approved materials, and equipment maintenance.
This handbook is what you need to maintain...
Teaching Primary English through Drama
A practical and creative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
"The text is extraordinarily succinct, very well organised and highly readable. Each chapter examines in depth specific aspects of teaching and learning in drama and well-chosen practical examples can readily be adopted by teachers. A 'must' for all primary schools."
Drama (the Journal...
Exploring Education and Childhood
From current certainties to new visions
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Education has become dominated by testing, standards, interventions, strategies and political policy. Yet while elements such as these are important, Exploring Education and Childhood contends it is childhood - including its sociology and psychology - that is the vital holistic context for teaching...