Acer Press imprint: 40 books

Teaching Health and Physical Education in Secondary School is designed to assist pre-service and practising teachers in understanding HPE and how students learn about the influences of health, physical activity and optimisation of wellbeing. Combined with its companion resource,Teaching Physical...

The What Teachers Need to Know About series aims to refresh and expand basic teaching knowledge and classroom experience. Books in the series provide essential information about a range of subjects necessary for today’s teachers to do their jobs effectively. These books are short, easy-to-use guides...

A Parent’s Guide to Learning Difficulties provides parents with a clear explanation of the numerous causes of children’s problems in learning. The practical advice on methods for helping children in key areas such as reading, writing, spelling and mathematics can be implemented in home tutoring...

Every step of the journey to become a parent, while exciting, can also be daunting with countless choices and varying advice. In Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me?, parents from around the world speak honestly about their experiences of assisted conception, pregnancy, birth, sex, relationships and raising...

In the Middle: The adolescent brain, behaviour and learning explores current research into brain development in adolescence and the changes in the brain as humans move into adulthood. This book seeks to use neuroscience to help parents, teachers and adults better understand the changes that occur...

Encourage your students to go beyond learning scientific facts and skills, to an in-depth collaborative inquiry into scientific concepts, the nature of science, the ethical implications of science, and the links between science and their everyday lives. Part 1 of Discussions in Science explains the...

This is a unique resource designed to support vocational education teachers in addressing the distinctive learning characteristics of international students, while also preparing domestic students for global skills mobility in the ‘Asian Century’. Based upon empirical data collected through observation...

Emotional Literacy: The heart of classroom management is a pioneering book for primary school teachers, counsellors and therapists who wish to develop emotional literacy skills in classroom situations. It provides resources for managing the ‘feeling’ life of children.

In time all schools in the developed world will move to students using their personal mobile technology in class, rather than it being provided by the school. It is not a case of if, but when. Bring Your Own Technology is like a tsunami coming across the horizon. The forces impelling the change and...

How do we enable young people to imagine themselves as the next generation of STEM professionals? How do we do this in a way that engages the desire to learn and explore? In Australia, there is increasing concern at the declining participation in advanced-level school mathematics and physical sciences;...

This book provides an overview of early childhood development from birth to eight. While all children develop differently according to inheritance and environment, there are patterns which help parents to know what milestones they might expect their children to reach physically, emotionally, socially...

While an immensely rewarding role, the work of a school principal can be a lonely one, made up of brief encounters and regular interruptions, steep in responsibilities and accountabilities and free from accolades. Research shows that principals often feel there is nothing that really prepares them...