Elizabeth Holmes: 13 books

This useful reference book offers authoritative yet accessible answers to common questions posed by new and trainee teachers as they face the practical everyday questions that arise from entering the classroom for the first time. Organized into sections the book covers issues such as: job hunting induction managing...

All teachers experience negative stress in the workplace whether it is due to pressures of the job whilst at school or the perpetual need to take work home. In this informative book, Elizabeth Holmes provides practical advice and solutions to enable teachers to experience less negative stress in their...

What Next After School? is now firmly established as the book for students who are weighing up the options available to them. For anyone needing help and ideas in making key decisions about their future, this essential book offers a wealth of practical, up-to-date information on all the issues that need...

Jake has felt fatherless ever since his parents separated, and so he can't wait to spend the summer with his dad. But the house Dad rented is a shabby place next to the railroad tracks, with no friends and nothing to do. Then, through a pickup game of hoops, Jake befriends a neighbor boy. Adrian is...

Sylvan has been angry ever since his parents split up. And now that an embarrassing photo has appeared in the paper, he's stuck with a lame nickname too. Charity is back in the United States after several years in Africa. And she's learning that home can be a strange place when you've been away for...

FAQs for TAs is a friendly and accessible guide covering the core questions that both new and existing teaching assistants may have about their jobs. Arranged in question and answer format, it covers all the essential information that teaching assistants need to know in an easily accessible...

The Newly Qualified Teacher’s Handbook is an essential companion for all new teachers. Practical, comprehensive and lively, this invaluable guide covers all aspects of your first crucial months and years, and will set your teaching career off on the right track. This updated and expanded second...

Teacher wellbeing, or a lack of it, is a major concern for the teaching profession. Research shows that there is a recruitment and retention crisis with over a third of the school, FE and HE profession expecting to leave by 2020. This is a practical guide that will help trainee teachers prepare...

School inspections still have the potential to spread fear and panic through even the best-run schools, but this practical book will remove all of the anxiety, with its proven advice to help ensure a successful inspection. Ideal for all teachers, whether newly qualified or with decades of experience,...

Snip! With one cut of the scissors, Erin’s social life changes absolutely. It’s hard enough being a new girl, but it’s that much worse to have a dorky older sister in the same school. When she is snubbed by the pretty and popular crowd, Erin commits an over-the-top vengeful act. This novel focuses...

Here are the writers that inspired the likes of Jerry and Esther Hicks, Michael J. Losier, and Rhonda Byrne. Long before 'The Secret' and 'The Law of Attraction' were written, these fifteen authors were writing about the Law of Attraction and the power of positive thinking. Their words ring as true...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...

Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. Mothers from around the world learn that this is the point in which their relationships with their children must drastically change. Mothers often...