Secondary Education category: 2117 books
Don't Call it Literacy!
What every teacher needs to know about speaking, listening, reading and writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
"Every teacher in English is a teacher of English," said George Sampson, one of the early school inspectors, back in 1921. It’s never been truer, or more relevant.
Literacy has a major impact on young people’s life-chances and it is every teacher’s responsibility to help build...
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...
Writing Instruction That Works
Proven Methods for Middle and High School Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Backed by solid research, Writing Instruction That Works answers the following question: What is writing instruction today and what can it be tomorrow? This up-to-date, comprehensive book identifies areas of concern for the ways that writing is being taught in today’s secondary schools. The...
by John Nisbet, Janet Shucksmith
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Originally published in 1986, designed for teachers and those concerned with the education of primary and secondary school pupils, Learning Strategies presented a new approach to ‘learning to learn’. Its aim was to encourage teachers to start thinking about different approaches to harnessing the...
by John Galloway, Merlin John, Maureen McTaggart
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
As technology evolves we are ever more reliant on the use of handheld and mobile devices, yet what do we know about their impact on learning? While there is a lot of interest in mobile technology, many schools still aren’t sure how to best use it for learning and teaching.
Learning with...
Teaching Adolescents With Autism
Practical Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Reaching teens with autism requires knowledge and heart
Award-winning educator Walter Kaweski offers secondary teachers practical strategies and heartfelt insights based on his extensive experience as an inclusion coordinator and father of a son with Asperger syndrome. Students with special...
Time to Talk
Implementing outstanding practice in speech, language and communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Time to Talk provides a powerful and accessible resource for practitioners working to improve children’s language and communication skills. Showcasing effective approaches in schools and settings across the country from the early years through primary and secondary education, it summarises research...
Best Practices for High School Classrooms
What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Randi Stone provides an inspirational, one-stop guide to the highest-impact teaching practices of the nation’s best and brightest high school educators. Through detailed, first-hand accounts of winning strategies, this book offers an exclusive glimpse into exemplary classrooms across the country....
Brilliant Ideas for Using ICT in the Classroom
A very practical guide for teachers and lecturers
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Brilliant Ideas for Using ICT in the Classroom is a totally practical, hands-on guide to using ICT in and around the classroom for all secondary school teachers and lecturers in post-compulsory education. Assuming no prior expertise, it centres on software and resources that are free or very low cost,...
The Complete Maus
Text Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
Insight Text Guides - The Complete Maus is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to Art Spiegelman's graphic novel contains detailed character and chapter analysis and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.
Every Man in This Village is a Liar
Text Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Insight Text Guides - Every Man in this Village is a Liar is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to Megan Stack's book contains detailed character and chapter analysis and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.
Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach
A Handbook for Secondary School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach uniquely addresses three problems that frequently concern pre-service and beginning teachers: classroom control, satisfying state and federal mandates, and figuring out exactly what is the role of the teacher. Integrating practical, theoretical, and critical teaching...
by Trevor Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
How to be a Brilliant Trainee Teacher sets out clear and practical guidelines to support your training and enhance your teaching, moving you directly towards a real understanding of how and why pupils learn and how you can enhance your own progress. This second edition has been updated to offer you...
by Dr Tony Liversidge, Matt Cochrane, Judith Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Reflective practice is at the heart of effective teaching, and this book helps you develop into a reflective teacher of Science. Everything you need is here: guidance on developing your analysis and self-evaluation skills, the knowledge of what you are trying to achieve and why, and examples of...