Secondary Education category: 2117 books

‘I recommend this book to anyone wishing to help children learn. In it you will find some lovely ideas for improving the way we encourage, support and praise all young people.’ Professor Carol Dweck, author of Mindset, Stanford University, USA ‘James has developed a rare skill...

Based on a major research project (the InterActive Project), this book explores and illustrates how digital technologies can transform learning across the curriculum. Using a wide range of educational settings � primary, secondary, school and home � it will help practitioners think about, plan and execute effective learning in their classrooms and

Insight Text Guides - Animal Farm is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to George Orwell's novella 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.

Insight Text Guide - In the Country of Men is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to Hisham Matar's 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.

Insight Text Guides - Stasiland is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Anna Funder'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.

Insight Text Guides - Unpolished Gem is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to the memoir by Alice Pung contains detailed chapter and character analysis and explores language, genre, structure and themes. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.

Insight Text Guides – Life of Galileo is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Bertolt Brecht's play 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.

This multidisciplinary overview introduces readers to the historical, sociological, anthropological, and political foundations of urban public secondary schooling and to possibilities for reform. Focused on critical and problematic elements, the text provides a comprehensive description and analyses...

  Engaging methods for teaching 21st-century skills Today’s students must be able to collaborate, innovate, and think critically to solve real-world problems. As content demands increase, how can teachers make time to teach these advanced skills? Find practical solutions in the story...

Oral history is a marvelous force for empowering young people with a love of history. But educators today may wonder how they might use it to inspire their students while still teaching the necessary curriculum and meeting standards. In Dialogue with the Past Glenn Whitman addresses these concerns...

Inspired Drama Teaching is packed full of practical ideas to inspire your students and colleagues. This book offers tips and ideas on everything a teacher of secondary drama needs to cover, including: • Explorative strategies, such as role play and forum-theatre • Activities for making...

Teaching Caribbean Poetry will inform and inspire readers with a love for, and understanding of, the dynamic world of Caribbean poetry. This unique volume sets out to enable secondary English teachers and their students to engage with a wide range of poetry, past and present; to understand how histories...

Insight Text Guides - The White Tiger is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to the novel by Aravind Adiga contains detailed chapter and character analysis and explores language, genre, structure and themes. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.

Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing uses children’s interest in pictures, comics and graphic novels as a way of developing their creative writing abilities, reading skills and oracy. The book’s underpinning strategy is the use of comic art images as a visual analogue to help...