Acer Press imprint: 40 books
by Janet L. Currie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It is expected that, in today’s primary schools, all children will participate in regular, safe, fun and engaging movement and physical activity, as part of the national curriculum. And it goes without saying that primary school teachers are ideally placed to provide these learning experiences....
The Business of School Leadership
A Practical Guide for Managing the Business Dimension of Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The role of school principals and their executive staff has changed rapidly and radically over the last decade. They are now required to be not only leading educators but also effective business persons. The reality is, however, that most school leaders have little if any formal training for these...
Scholarship and Selection Tests 2nd edition
A guide for students and parents, 2 Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Scholarship and Selection Tests: A guide for students and parents aims to help students and parents to better understand scholarship and selection tests, so that students can develop their full potential and parents can support their children do their best when it counts. This second edition contains:•...
by Phil Ridden, Sandy Heldsinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What Teachers Need to Know About Assessment and Reporting is a response to the pressures on teachers and schools to not only improve the quality of teaching, but to demonstrate improved outcomes. Many teachers apply assessment approaches which are familiar from their own education or that are learnt...
Teaching and Learning Difficulties (2nd ed.)
A Cross-Curricular Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Teaching and Learning Difficulties provides guidance on teaching students that encounter difficulties in a number of learning areas, including science, social studies, history, geography and environmental education. Using a cross-curricular perspective, it explores multiple teacher-directed and student-centred...
by Pam Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In Wise Heads, Wise Hearts, educator Pam Ryan explores a variety of conceptual leadership styles through a range of school and organisational case studies. Taking a personal approach to the business of school leadership, she presents a variety of models and goals for all educators who wish to lead...
Early Childhood Play Matters
International Teaching Through Play: Birth to 6 Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Play-based learning has long been a means of facilitating teaching and learning in the early childhood years. The Walker Learning Approach, an Australian-designed, evidence-based play pedagogy, provides a solid base and foundation for intentional and responsive teaching in the early years. The program’s...
Clinical Skills in Infant Mental Health
The first three years
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
What is mental health in infancy and early childhood and why is it important? How does the infant-parent relationship influence development, and how do these early experiences shape our lives? How can clinical assessment and intervention focus on these early relationships to improve developmental...
Energising Teaching
The Power of Your Unique Pedagogical Gift
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
As a prospective, beginning or established teacher, you have a unique blend of skills, passions, personality traits and pedagogical styles that informs your approach to the profession. But the job is not an easy one. How can you utilise your strengths so that you don’t burn out? Career energy, direction...
by Philip Cam
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Beginning with an Introductory Toolkit, Twenty Thinking Tools shows teachers how to strengthen students’ abilities to ask insightful questions, to look at problems and issues from various points of view, to explore disagreements reasonably, to make appropriate use of examples, to draw needful distinctions,...
Diverse Literacies in Early Childhood
A social justice approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This important, research-based text explores the concept of literacy as social practice within diverse family, community and educational settings. Its theoretical premise that literacy learning and life chances are inextricably linked is underscored by practical example, teachers' stories and real-world...
An Extraordinary School
Re-modelling Special Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Special education needs to be just that: first rate; best practice; uncompromising; creative education that enables all of our children to fulfil their potential. This book is the story of an innovative school that will challenge you to re-think how special education is taught. Port Phillip Specialist...
The Autonomy Premium
Professional Autonomy and Student Achievement in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Autonomy Premium is a concise response to the popular and often loosely defined debate about whether higher levels of student achievement may flow from autonomy in school management and professional practice. Drawing on over 40 years of research Brian J Caldwell examines a series of compelling...
by Michael Gaffney
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The roads to school system improvement can be rocky. The nature of schools and school systems makes them very difficult to change. These are complex organisations, subject to a range of demands and opportunities from multiple stakeholders from parents and governments, from local communities and business,...