Elementary category: 2214 books
by Sue Reid, Angela Sawyer, Mary Bennett-Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
This popular, widely recommended, text supports trainees on primary initial teacher training courses where a secure knowledge and understanding of English is required for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). A rigorous and focused test enables trainees to identify their strengths and weaknesses...
Every Young Child a Reader
Using Marie Clay's Key Concepts for Classroom Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This resource will help K–2 teachers revitalize and restructure their classroom literacy instruction based on Marie Clay’s groundbreaking and transformative literacy processing theory. Clay’s theories have created literacy success for more than 2 million struggling first-grade readers...
by Douglas Newton
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
'Douglas Newton's Teaching Design and Technology gives encouragement to creativity in younger pupils. Aimed at ages 3-11, it contains a variety of suggestions for activities providing more than just a collection of ideas, there are many suggestions that might help children plan and work towards quality...
Exploring Talk in School
Inspired by the Work of Douglas Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, January 2010
Classroom talk, by which children make sense of what their peers and teachers mean, is the most important educational tool for guiding the development of understanding and for jointly constructing knowledge. So what...
by Ms Sylvia Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Teaching Primary Mathematics covers what student teachers really need to know and why, including approaches to teaching and learning, planning and assessment, and using resources in maths teaching. It also provides a brief historical overview of the teaching of mathematics and examines strategies...
by Richard Eke, John Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Drawing on their research into the quality, quantity and type of talk that happens in the everyday primary classroom, the authors offer insights into the most effective ways of using talk to improve teaching and learning. They consider broad classroom-based issues, such as:
what is important...
PUBLIC SCHOOL ADVENTURES
One Educator's Unusual 36 Year Journey Into and Through Our Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Public School Adventures is the story of one educator’s unusual and convoluted journey into and through our public schools. It follows his unlikely 36 year trip into teaching, and shares many real life stories about his students and their parents and teachers. The story continues through his years...
Hearing the Voices of Children
Social Policy for a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Hearing the Voices of Children provides a fresh perspective on social policy. At the heart of the book is the emergence of 'children's voices' and the implications of this for social policy. The authors argue that children's voices should be heard much more strongly in the process of policy formation...
Bilingualism in the Primary School
A Handbook for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Over the past few years bilingualism has come to be seen not as a hinderance to assimiliation but as an asset which, properly nurtured, will benefit children's linguistic awareness, cultural sensitivity and cognitive functioning. Bilingualism in the Primary Classroom gives primary teachers a window...
Primary Understanding
Education in Early Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the...
Education That Matters
How Strong Moral Principles, Literacy and Patriotism Will Save Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Free public education has long been a core American value and privilege. Yet, teachers are burning out, families are fleeing the public schools and students, who cannot read and write are graduating from high school. The government constantly and consistently strives for quality education through...
The Story in the Picture
Inquiry and Artmaking with Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides teachers with the skills, and freedom, to design rich and open–ended art experiences for young children. The author demonstrates that using fine art reproductions in the early childhood curriculum allows children to construct their own meanings, teaches diversity, fosters...
The Monkey-Proof Box
Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Written by Jonathan Lear, The Monkey-Proof Box: Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence is a manifesto on how to dismantle the curriculum we’re told to deliver and construct in its place the curriculum we need to deliver.
A group of...
Where the Rainbow ends
Whimsical Dreamland Stories for the Young and the Young at Heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Kirsten Schwörer was born on March 26, 1970 in Darmstadt. She spent her childhood and youth in Darmstadt, Rio de Janeiro, Iserlohn and Berlin, where she had gained much insight and collected many ideas on the diversity of people, cultures and religions and their convictions, and learned how to be...