Secondary Education category: 2117 books

Insight Text Guides - Hamlet is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to William Shakespeare'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 pick-and-mix treasure trove of advice is brimming with tried-and-tested strategies for managing behaviour in the secondary classroom. The book contains 100 completely new ideas including: suggested scripts and keywords designed to pacify even the most aggressive situation short-term and...

Write Out of the Classroom is a ground-breaking, highly practical book which provides teachers and creative writing tutors with great ways of tapping into the huge inspirational and educational potential of the richly diverse world beyond the classroom walls. Effective learning occurs when...

There is no single best approach in teaching. This new text challenges the idea that there is a 'best way' to teach. Instead, the authors explain, a more pragmatic approach is required. Teachers need a range of skills and strategies to select from, work with and adapt. Every school, cohort,...

This guide presents research-based strategies that enable secondary teachers to increase adolescent learning while meeting standards by incorporating reading, writing, and critical thinking into content instruction.

I began teaching in 1964 and am still at it. Thanks to the values of my parents and my maternal grandmother (Beba), as well as to their high expectations for me, I learned at a young age that no matter how old I got, I would always be a student. Later I learned that I would always be a teacher. Not...

Insight Text Guides - Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Ray Lawler'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.

Hit the Headlines charts out a series of fun and inspiring, cross-curricular journalism workshops that enhance key skills and confidence in areas such as: Writing and editing. Critical assessment. Interviewing and observation. Mental flexibility and resourcefulness. Role-playing and...

Insight Text Guides - Wild Cat Falling is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to the novel by Mudrooroo 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.

From body art to baseball cards, comics to cathedrals, pie charts to power ballads . . . students need help navigating today’s media-rich world. And educators need help teaching today’s new media literacy. To be literate now means being able to read, write, listen, speak, view, and represent across...

Insight Text Guides - Life of Pi is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to the film directed by Ang Lee contains detailed character and scene analysis and explores language, genre, ideas and themes. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.

Insight Text Guides - Behind the Beautiful Forevers is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to Katherine Boo's non-fiction narrative contains detailed notes on cultural and social context, chapter analyses and in-depth discussions of...

Insight Text Guides - Twelve Angry Men is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Reginald Rose'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.

Insight Text Guides - Mabo is designed to help Secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to film directed by Rachel Perkins 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.