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Outliers: The Story of Success Kindle Edition by Malcolm Gladwell
Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more…
Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to scientific geniuses to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and inspiring, than we ever imagined.
Outliers: The Story of Success
What Should Schools Teach?: Disciplines, Subjects, and the Pursuit of Truth Kindle Edition by Alex Standish and Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
The blurring of the distinctions between pedagogy and curriculum, and experience and knowledge, has resulted in a generation of teachers who are confused about the part that each of these plays in the education of children. Schools may still teach through subjects, but there is little consensus about what constitutes a subject and what they…
What Should Schools Teach?: Disciplines, subjects, and the pursuit of truth
What Should Schools Teach?: Disciplines, Subjects and the Pursuit of Truth by Alex Standish and Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
The blurring of the distinctions between pedagogy and curriculum, and experience and knowledge, has resulted in a generation of teachers who are confused about the part that each of these plays in the education of children. Schools may still teach through subjects, but there is little consensus about what constitutes a subject and what they…
What Should Schools Teach?: Disciplines, subjects and the pursuit of truth
The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work by Georgia Heard
“Students need to be reminded that revision isn’t merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.” -Georgia Heard “You mean I have to change my writing?” Georgia Heard frequently hears this question from students as well. “We must welcome…
The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work
How to Pass Exams: Accelerate Your Learning – Memorise Key Facts – Revise Effectively Kindle Edition – by Dominic OBrien
Dominic O’Brien, eight-times World Memory Champion, outlines in simple language the steps you can take to increase your memory power and pass your exams with flying colours. Whether you are at school studying a foreign language or at university revising for an examination toward a degree, How to Pass Exams will show you the easy way to…
How to Pass Exams: Accelerate Your Learning - Memorise Key Facts - Revise Effectively
How to Pass Exams: Accelerate Your Learning – Memorise Key Facts – Revise Effectively – by Dominic OBrien
Everything you need to know to improve your memory and increase your chances of passing that exam with flying colours! Dominic O’Brien, eight-times World Memory Champion, outlines in simple language the steps you can take to increase your memory skills for all exam situations. How to Pass Exams also includes useful advice on revision, speed-reading, note-taking and…
How to Pass Exams: Accelerate Your Learning - Memorise Key Facts - Revise Effectively
The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know: Volume 1 – Richard James Rogers
Most books about classroom management are filled with tricks and techniques that help the teacher to engage with his or her students in a better way. Like paracetamol for a chronic headache, these books offer a temporary relief for the symptoms of bad teacher-student rapport without addressing the root causes. The Quick Guide to Classroom…
The Quick Guide to Classroom Management: 45 Secrets That All High School Teachers Need to Know: Volume 1 (Rogers Pedagogical)
Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life Kindle Edition – Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson, author of the international bestseller The Element and the most viewed talk on TED.com, offers a practical guide to discovering your passions and natural aptitudes, and finding the point at which the two meet: Finding Your Element. Through a range of stories from his own experience and those of people from all walks of life, Ken…
Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education – Ken Robinson
A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by Ken Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking. Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in…
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life – Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson, author of the international bestseller The Element and the most viewed talk on TED.com, offers a practical guide to discovering your passions and natural aptitudes, and finding the point at which the two meet: Finding Your Element. The Element has inspired readers all over the world to change their lives and this new companion is a practical…
Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative Kindle Edition – Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson argues that organisations everywhere are trying to fix a problem that originates in schools and universities: “It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those…
Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative
Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative – Ken Robinson
Out of Our Minds explores creativity: its value in business, its ubiquity in children, its perceived absence in many adults and the phenomenon through which it disappears and offers a groundbreaking approach for getting it back. Author Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognised authority on creativity, and his TED talk on the subject is the…
Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative
Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up Kindle Edition – Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education. In this inspiring, empowering book, he sets out a new vision for how education can be transformed to enable all young people to flourish. Filled with practical examples and groundbreaking research, it will inspire the change our children urgently need.
Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up
Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up – Ken Robinson
Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education. In this inspiring, empowering book, he sets out a new vision for how education can be transformed to enable all young people to flourish. Filled with practical examples and groundbreaking research, it will inspire the change our children urgently need.
Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up
Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories – E.D. Hirsch
In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent findings in neuroscience and data from France to provide new evidence for the argument…
Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
Miseducation (21st Century Standpoints) – Diane Reay
In this book, part of the 21st Century Standpoints series published in association with the British Sociological Association, Diane Reay, herself working class turned Cambridge professor, brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden’s pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century. The book addresses the urgent question of why…
Miseducation (21st Century Standpoints) Paperback
Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes Kindle Edition – Diane Reay
In this book Diane Reay, herself working class turned Cambridge professor, brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden’s pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century. Drawing on over 500 interviews, the book, part of the 21st Century Standpoints series published in association with the British Sociological Association, includes…
Miseducation: Inequality, education and the working classes (21st Century Standpoints)
Open: How we’ll work, live and learn in the future Kindle Edition – David Price
“From every perspective OPEN will open your mind to some of the real implications of digital technologies for how we live and learn in the 21st century.” Sir Ken Robinson, world-leading expert on education and creativity “OPEN is a tour de force that is by turns inspiring, shocking, highly entertaining, but above all practical.” Mark Stevenson, author of ‘An Optimist’s Tour…
OPEN: How we'll work, live and learn in the future
Open: How we’ll work, live and learn in the future – David Price
“From every perspective OPEN will open your mind to some of the real implications of digital technologies for how we live and learn in the 21st century.” Sir Ken Robinson, world-leading expert on education and creativity “OPEN is a tour de force that is by turns inspiring, shocking, highly entertaining, but above all practical.” Mark Stevenson, author of ‘An Optimist’s Tour…
Open: How we'll work, live and learn in the future
Flip The System UK: A Teachers’ Manifesto Kindle Edition – Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Jean-Louis Dutaut
How did we let teacher burn-out happen, and what can we do about it – before it’s too late? This brave and disruptive book accurately defines the problems of low teacher morale and offers systemic, future-proof and realistic solutions to bringing hope, energy and joy back to the profession. The simple answer is staring us…
Flip The System UK: A Teachers’ Manifesto
Flip The System UK: A Teachers’ Manifesto – Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Jean-Louis Dutaut
How did we let teacher burn-out happen, and what can we do about it – before it’s too late? This brave and disruptive book accurately defines the problems of low teacher morale and offers systemic, future-proof and realistic solutions to bringing hope, energy and joy back to the profession. The simple answer is staring us…
Flip The System UK: A Teachers' Manifesto
Change: Learn to Love It, Learn to Lead It Kindle Edition – Richard Gerver
Change by Richard Gerver will give you all you need to understand change, to adapt to change, and to inspire others to do the same. ‘To be successful, you have to be able to adapt to change’ – Sir Alex Ferguson The pace of change is greater than ever. We all face new challenges every day…
Change: Learn to Love It, Learn to Lead It
Change: Learn to Love It, Learn to Lead It – Richard Gerver
Change by Richard Gerver will give you all you need to understand change, to adapt to change, and to inspire others to do the same. ‘To be successful, you have to be able to adapt to change’ – Sir Alex Ferguson The pace of change is greater than ever. We all face new challenges every day…
Change: Learn to Love It, Learn to Lead It
Teaching: Notes From the Front Line Kindle Edition – Debra Kidd
Our current education system is overloaded with amendments, additions and adjustments which have been designed to keep an outdated model in the air. But it is crashing. And as it comes down, we see the battle of blame begin. It is time to take our vocation back, to learn to trust ourselves and each other…
Teaching: Notes From the Front Line
Teaching: Notes from the Front Line – Dr Debra Kidd
Our current education system is overloaded with amendments, additions and adjustments which have been designed to keep an outdated model in the air. But it is crashing. And as it comes down, we see the battle of blame begin. It is time to take our vocation back, to learn to trust ourselves and each other…
Teaching: Notes from the Front Line
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact Kindle Edition – Chip Heath and Dan Heath
From the internationally bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that…
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact – Chip Heath and Dan Heath
From the internationally bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that…
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools Kindle Edition – Paul Bambrick-Santoyo and Brett Peiser
Paul Bambrick–Santoyo (Managing Director of Uncommon Schools) shows leaders how they can raise their schools to greatness by following a core set of principles. These seven principles, or “levers,” allow for consistent, transformational, and replicable growth. With intentional focus on these areas, leaders will leverage much more learning from the same amount of time investment….
Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools
Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools – Paul Bambrick-Santoyo and Brett Peiser
Paul Bambrick–Santoyo (Managing Director of Uncommon Schools) shows leaders how they can raise their schools to greatness by following a core set of principles. These seven principles, or “levers,” allow for consistent, transformational, and replicable growth. With intentional focus on these areas, leaders will leverage much more learning from the same amount of time investment….
Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools
Inner Story: Understand your mind. Change your world – Dr Tim O’Brien
Written by award-winning psychologist Dr Tim O’Brien, “wholeheartedly” recommended by Sir Elton John and endorsed by Arsene Wenger, Manager of Arsenal Football Club in the English Premier League, this is a book about you. There are two stories inside your head. One is about your life. The other is controlling your life – that story…
Inner Story: Understand your mind. Change your world.
Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World’s Education Superpower Kindle Edition – Lucy Crehan
As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from ‘top-performing’ education systems. She resolved to find out what was really going on in the classrooms of countries whose teenagers ranked top in the world in reading, maths and science. Cleverlands documents Crehan’s journey…
Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World’s Education Superpowers
Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World’s Education Superpowers – Lucy Crehan
As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from ‘top-performing’ education systems. She resolved to find out what was really going on in the classrooms of countries whose teenagers ranked top in the world in reading, maths and science. Cleverlands documents Crehan’s journey…
Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World’s Education Superpowers
100 Social Innovations from Finland – Ilkka Taipale
One might wonder what a single-chamber parliament, dish drying cabinets and text messaging have in common. Or what the link is between maternity packs, xylitol, the sauna and free school meals. The answer is simple: they are all Finnish social innovations. In Finland, as elsewhere, technical inventions have hogged all the economic limelight, but it…
100 Social Innovations from Finland
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed – Jessica Lahey
In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s inevitable problems so that they can grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant…
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change Kindle Edition – Charles Duhigg
In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature…
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change – Charles Duhigg
In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature…
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
Interviewing Children and Young People for Research Kindle Edition – Michelle O’Reilly & Nisha Dogra
This book provides a practical, pedagogical perspective on conducting qualitative interviews with children and young people. From designing and choosing the type of interview through to planning, structuring, conducting, and analysing them this book is a complete toolkit. Drawing upon real-world examples and researchers’ anecdotes, the authors combine both theoretical background and practical advice to…
Interviewing Children and Young People for Research
Interviewing Children and Young People for Research – Michelle O’Reilly & Nisha Dogra
This book provides a practical, pedagogical perspective on conducting qualitative interviews with children and young people. From designing and choosing the type of interview through to planning, structuring, conducting, and analysing them this book is a complete toolkit. Drawing upon real-world examples and researchers’ anecdotes, the authors combine both theoretical background and practical advice to…
Interviewing Children and Young People for Research
The Development of Children’s Thinking: Its Social and Communicative Foundations Kindle Edition
by Jeremy Carpendale, Charlie Lewis &Ulrich Müller The Development of Children’s Thinking offers undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and other disciplines an introduction to several core areas of developmental psychology. It examines recent empirical research within the context of longstanding theoretical debates. In particular, it shows how a grasp of classic theories within developmental psychology is vital for…
The Development of Children’s Thinking: Its Social and Communicative Foundations
The Development of Children’s Thinking: Its Social and Communicative Foundations
by Jeremy Carpendale (Author), Charlie Lewis (Contributor), Ulrich Muller (Contributor) The Development of Children’s Thinking offers undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and other disciplines an introduction to several core areas of developmental psychology. It examines recent empirical research within the context of longstanding theoretical debates. In particular, it shows how a grasp of classic theories…
The Development of Children's Thinking: Its Social and Communicative Foundations
Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education Kindle Edition – Paula Cowan and Henry Maitles
The Holocaust is a controversial and difficult teaching topic that needs to be approached sensitively and with an awareness of the complex and emotive issues involved. This book offers pragmatic pedagogical and classroom-based guidance for teachers and trainee teachers on how to intelligently teach holocaust education in a meaningful and age-appropriate way. Key coverage includes:…
Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education
Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education – Paula Cowan and Henry Maitles
The Holocaust is a controversial and difficult teaching topic that needs to be approached sensitively and with an awareness of the complex and emotive issues involved. This book offers pragmatic pedagogical and classroom-based guidance for teachers and trainee teachers on how to intelligently teach holocaust education in a meaningful and age-appropriate way. Key coverage includes:…
Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education
Successful Early Years Ofsted Inspections: Thriving Children, Confident Staff Kindle Edition – Julian Grenier
The stakes have never been higher: Ofsted have a new, tougher inspection framework for the early years. If you are judged to be less than good, you risk losing funding for places. A reputation that took years to build can vanish overnight. But instead of hiding behind the “Ofsted monster” to get things done, Early…
Successful Early Years Ofsted Inspections: Thriving Children, Confident Staff
Successful Early Years Ofsted Inspections: Thriving Children, Confident Staff – Julian Grenier
The stakes have never been higher: Ofsted have a new, tougher inspection framework for the early years. If you are judged to be less than good, you risk losing funding for places. A reputation that took years to build can vanish overnight. But instead of hiding behind the “Ofsted monster” to get things done, Early…
Successful Early Years Ofsted Inspections: Thriving Children, Confident Staff
Developing School Readiness Kindle Edition – Kathryn Peckham
We’ve all heard of the term school readiness but how many of us understand what is meant by it? What does it mean in the context of child development and wellbeing and what implications does it have for creating enthusiastic lifelong learners? How can we really give our children the best start in their most…
Developing School Readiness: Creating Lifelong Learners
Developing School Readiness – Kathryn Peckham
We’ve all heard of the term school readiness but how many of us understand what is meant by it? What does it mean in the context of child development and wellbeing and what implications does it have for creating enthusiastic lifelong learners? How can we really give our children the best start in their most…
Developing School Readiness
Betraying a Generation: How Education is Failing Young People Kindle Edition – Patrick Ainley
Education has betrayed its promises to deliver upward social mobility and a brighter future. Young people study harder but learn less, running up a down-escalator of devalued qualifications to become overqualified but underemployed, unable to move forward with their lives. From primary to post-graduate schools – funny phonics through endless testing to phoney apprenticeships and…
Betraying a generation: How education is failing young people
Betraying a Generation: How Education is Failing Young People – Patrick Ainley
Education has betrayed its promises to deliver upward social mobility and a brighter future. Young people study harder but learn less, running up a down-escalator of devalued qualifications to become overqualified but underemployed, unable to move forward with their lives. From primary to post-graduate schools – funny phonics through endless testing to phoney apprenticeships and…
Betraying a Generation: How Education is Failing Young People
Education, Work and Social Change: Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain Kindle Edition – Robin Simmons, Ron Thompson and Lisa Russell
The number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) is rising to alarming levels across the globe and costing the economy billions. Current government attempts at diminishing NEET levels have failed to take effect, and the NEET category remains a continuing source of hotly contested public and media interest. This book is…
Education, Work and Social Change: Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain
Education, Work and Social Change: Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial Britain – Robin Simmons, Ron Thompson and Lisa Russell
The number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) is rising to alarming levels across the globe and costing the economy billions. Current government attempts at diminishing NEET levels have failed to take effect, and the NEET category remains a continuing source of hotly contested public and media interest. This book is…
Education, Work and Social Change: Young People and Marginalization in Post-Industrial BritainNEET Young People and Training for Work: Learning on the Margins – Robin Simmons and Ron Thompson
The number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) is rising to alarming levels. Being NEET seriously affects the life chances of many of these young people as they face the possibility of long-term unemployment, isolation and social exclusion. Re-engaging them in training is therefore a priority for policy-makers and practitioners. This…
NEET Young People and Training for Work: Learning on the Margins
TALIS Supporting Teacher Professionalism: Insights from TALIS 2013 – OECD
This report examines the nature and extent of support for teacher professionalism using the Teaching and Learning International Survey (Talis) 2013, a survey of teachers and principals in 34 countries and economies around the world. Teacher professionalism is defined as the knowledge, skills, and practices that teachers must have in order to be effective educators.The…
TALIS Supporting Teacher Professionalism: Insights from TALIS 2013Unleashing Great Teaching: The Secrets to the Most Effective Teacher Development – David Weston and Bridget Clay
This practical guide for leaders of all levels in schools will inspire you to implement the most effective professional learning in your staff. David Weston and Bridget Clay showcase how the very best schools in the UK are engineering spectacular but achievable cultures of continuous improvement and professional learning and highlight how other schools can…
Unleashing Great Teaching: The Secrets to the Most Effective Tecaher Development
How to Survive in Teaching: Without imploding, exploding or walking away – Dr Emma Kell
Drawing on years of research and first-hand experience, How to Survive in Teaching offers support, advice and practical suggestions to help you and your colleagues stay flourishing, positive and most importantly, stay teaching! Recent statistics show that not enough teachers are entering the profession and that too many are leaving. Teaching is facing a genuine…
How to Survive in Teaching: Without imploding, exploding or walking away
How to Survive in Teaching: Without imploding, exploding or walking away – Kindle Edition – Dr Emma Kell
Drawing on years of research and first-hand experience, How to Survive in Teaching offers support, advice and practical suggestions to help you and your colleagues stay flourishing, positive and most importantly, stay teaching! Recent statistics show that not enough teachers are entering the profession and that too many are leaving. Teaching is facing a genuine…
How to Survive in Teaching: Without imploding, exploding or walking awayPerfect Teacher-Led CPD – Kindle Edition – Shaun Allison
All successful schools have one thing in common – they are full of brilliant teachers. This doesn’t happen by chance. If schools are to develop their teachers into first rate reflective and high performing practitioners, they need a varied and personalised CPD programme – based on collaboration and sharing best practice. This book looks at…
Perfect Teacher-Led CPD (Perfect Series)Perfect Teacher-Led CPD – Shaun Allison
All successful schools have one thing in common they are full of brilliant teachers. This doesn`t happen by chance. If schools are to develop their teachers into first rate reflective and high performing practitioners, they need a varied and personalised CPD programme based on collaboration and sharing best practice. This book looks at how schools…
Perfect Teacher-Led CPD (Perfect (Independent Thinking Press))
A University Education – Kindle Edition – David Willetts
Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools – a striking theme of the book. This important book first investigates the university as an institution and then tracks the individual on their journey to and…
A University Education
A University Education – David Willetts
Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools – a striking theme of the book. This important book first investigates the university as an institution and then tracks the individual on their journey to and…
A University Education
Coaching: Learning Made Simple Kindle Edition – David Pardey
Learning Made Simple books give you skills without frills. They are matched to the main qualifications and written by experienced teachers and authors to make often tricky subjects simple to learn. Every book is designed carefully to provide bite-sized lessons matched to readers’ needs.Using full colour thoughout and written by leading teachers and writers, Learning…
Coaching: Learning Made Simple
Coaching: Learning Made Simple – David Pardey
Learning Made Simple books give you skills without frills. They are matched to the main qualifications and written by experienced teachers and authors to make often tricky subjects simple to learn. Every book is designed carefully to provide bite-sized lessons matched to readers’ needs.Using full colour thoughout and written by leading teachers and writers, Learning…
Coaching: Learning Made Simple
Building and Leading Teams – David Pardey
Building and Leading Teams is written for current and aspiring team leaders, to help them to develop their capability and build high performing teams. It’s the long-awaited, completely up-to-date, fully revised and extended replacement for the best-selling Leading Teams. Building and Leading Teams explains complex ideas in every-day language and offers a critical perspective on…
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Introducing Leadership Kindle Edition – David Pardey
Introducing Leadership is a highly practical textbook which draws on robust research to present a clear picture of what leadership actually involves. It explores why leadership has become so important in recent years; the role leadership plays in achieving organisational success; the skills that effective leaders need; and the steps that anyone can take to become…
Introducing Leadership
Introducing Leadership – David Pardey
Introducing Leadership is a highly practical textbook which draws on robust research to present a clear picture of what leadership actually involves. It explores why leadership has become so important in recent years; the role leadership plays in achieving organisational success; the skills that effective leaders need; and the steps that anyone can take to become…
Introducing Leadership
Mark. Plan. Teach.: Save Time. Reduce Workload. Impact Learning. Kindle Edition – Ross Morrison McGill
There are three things that every teacher must do: mark work, plan lessons and teach students well. This brand new book from Ross Morrison McGill, bestselling author of 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Lessons and Teacher Toolkit, is packed full of practical ideas that will help teachers refine the key elements of their profession….
Mark. Plan. Teach.: Save time. Reduce workload. Impact learning.
Mark. Plan. Teach.: Save Time. Reduce Workload. Impact Learning. – Ross Morrison McGill
There are three things that every teacher must do: mark work, plan lessons and teach students well. This brand new book from Ross Morrison McGill, bestselling author of 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Lessons and Teacher Toolkit, is packed full of practical ideas that will help teachers refine the key elements of their profession….
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Hopeful Schools – Mary Myatt
Hopeful Schools’ is a breath of fresh air and reminds you ‘why’ we do ‘what’ we do, whilst making you think ‘how’ we go about it. Mary encourages us to consider what soulful schools; heart-based education and courageous leadership could and should look like. This book will nourish you and restore your faith in the…
Hopeful Schools
Making every English lesson count: Six principles for supporting great reading and writing (Making every lesson count) Kindle Edition – Andy Tharby
Making Every English Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Reading and Writing goes in search of answers to the fundamental question that all English teachers must ask: ‘What can I do to help my students to become confident and competent readers and writers?’ Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every…
Making every English lesson count: Six principles for supporting great reading and writing (Making every lesson count)
Making Every English Lesson Count: Six principles to support great reading and writing (Making Every Lesson Count) – Andy Tharby
Brings the teaching of conceptual knowledge, vocabulary and challenging literature to the foreground and shows teachers how to develop students reading and writing proficiency over time. Making Every English Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Reading and Writing goes in search of answers to the fundamental question that all English teachers must ask: What…
Making Every English Lesson Count: Six principles to support great reading and writing (Making Every Lesson Count)
Making every science lesson count: Six principles to support great science teaching (Making every lesson count) Kindle Edition – Shaun Allison
Making Every Science Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Science Teaching goes in search of answers to the fundamental question that all science teachers must ask: ‘What can I do to help my students become the scientists of the future?’ Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, Shaun…
Making every science lesson count: Six principles to support great science teaching (Making every lesson count)
Making Every Science Lesson Count: Six principles to support great science teaching (Making Every Lesson Count Series) – Shaun Allison
Making Every Science Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Science Teaching goes in search of answers to the fundamental question that all science teachers must ask: What can I do to help my students become the scientists of the future? Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, Shaun…
Making Every Science Lesson Count: Six principles to support great science teaching (Making Every Lesson Count Series)
Making Every Maths Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Teaching and Learning – Kate Blight
Provides practical solutions to perennial problems and inspires a rich, challenging and evidence-informed approach to secondary school maths teaching. Maths lessons benefit from the Making Every Lesson Count approach. Written in an engaging style, full-time teacher Kate Blight offers practical strategies to support the maths teacher in the secondary school. The book offers gimmick-free ideas…
Making Every Maths Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Teaching and Learning (Making Every Lesson Count Series)
Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction Kindle Edition – Doug Lemov
The world we are preparing our students to succeed in is one bound together by words and phrases. Our students learn their literature, history, math, science, or art via a firm foundation of strong reading skills. When we teach students to read with precision, rigor, and insight, we are truly handing over the key to…
Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction
Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction – Doug Lemov
The world we are preparing our students to succeed in is one bound together by words and phrases. Our students learn their literature, history, math, science, or art via a firm foundation of strong reading skills. When we teach students to read with precision, rigor, and insight, we are truly handing over the key to…
Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction
Making Every Lesson Count: Six principles to support great teaching and learning – Shaun Allison and Andy Tharby
This award-winning title has now inspired a whole series of books. Each of the books in the series are held together by six pedagogical principles challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning and provide simple, realistic strategies that teachers can use to develop the teaching and learning in their classroom. Packed with practical teaching strategies,…
Making Every Lesson Count: Six principles to support great teaching and learning
Making every primary lesson count: Six principles to support great teaching and learning (Making every lesson count) Kindle Edition – Jo Payne and Mel Scott
In Making Every Primary Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Teaching and Learning, full-time primary teachers Jo Payne and Mel Scott share evidence-informed practice and gimmick-free advice for ensuring that every lesson makes a difference for young learners. Writing in the engaging style of Shaun Allison and Andy Tharby’s award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, the…
Making every primary lesson count: Six principles to support great teaching and learning (Making every lesson count)
Making Every Primary Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Teaching and Learning (Making Every Lesson Count Series) – Jo Payne and Mel Scott
Advocates an approach designed to cultivate a classroom culture of growth and excellence enabling pupils to leave primary school as confident, successful learners. Takes the principles detailed in the bestselling and award-winning Making Every Lesson Count and applies them specifically to the primary school. In Making Every Primary Lesson Count, full-time primary teachers Mel Scott…
Making Every Primary Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Teaching and Learning (Making Every Lesson Count Series)
What Does This Look Like In The Classroom?: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice Kindle Edition – Carl Hendrick and Robin Macpherson
Educators around the world are uniting behind the need for the profession to have access to more high-quality research and evidence to do their job more effectively. But every year thousands of research papers are published, some of which contradict each other. How can busy teachers know which research is worth investing time in reading…
What Does This Look Like In The Classroom?: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
What Does This Look Like In The Classroom: Bridging The Gap Between Research And Practice – Carl Hendrick and Robin Macpherson
Educators around the world are uniting behind the need for the profession to have access to more high-quality research and evidence to do their job more effectively. But every year thousands of research papers are published, some of which contradict each other. How can busy teachers know which research is worth investing time in reading…
What Does This Look Like In The Classroom: Bridging The Gap Between Research And Practice
Principles and Practices of Teaching and Training: A guide for teachers and trainers in the FE and skills sector (Further Education and Skills) Kindle Edition – Ann Gravells
Written by bestselling author Ann Gravells, this is the complete go-to guide for anyone wanting to be (or working as) a teacher or trainer in the further education and skills sector, in the UK and beyond. It has all the information you need to work towards a qualification such as the Award, Certificate or Diploma…
Principles and Practices of Teaching and Training: A guide for teachers and trainers in the FE and skills sector (Further Education and Skills)
Principles and Practices of Teaching and Training: A guide for teachers and trainers in the FE and skills sector (Further Education) – Ann Gravells
Written by bestselling author Ann Gravells, this is the complete go-to guide for anyone wanting to be (or working as) a teacher or trainer in the further education and skills sector, in the UK and beyond. It has all the information you need to work towards a qualification such as the Award, Certificate or Diploma…
Principles and Practices of Teaching and Training: A guide for teachers and trainers in the FE and skills sector (Further Education and Skills)
Dyslexia is My Superpower (Most of the Time) Kindle Edition – Margaret Rooke
n more than 100 interviews, children and young adults reveal their personal tips and tactics for honing the creative benefits of dyslexia, enabling them to thrive in school and beyond. Strategies include ways to develop confidence and self-belief. The contributors have outlined specific approaches they feel have helped them, and others that haven’t. The book…
Dyslexia is My Superpower (Most of the Time)
Dyslexia is My Superpower (Most of the Time) – Margaret Rooke
In more than 100 interviews, children and young adults reveal their personal tips and tactics for honing the creative benefits of dyslexia, enabling them to thrive in school and beyond. Strategies include ways to develop confidence and self-belief. The contributors have outlined specific approaches they feel have helped them, and others that haven’t. The book…
Dyslexia is My Superpower (Most of the Time)
Bringing Knowledge Back In: From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education Kindle Edition – Michael Young
What is it in the twenty-first century that we want young people, and adults returning to study, to know? What is it about the kind of knowledge that people can acquire at school, college or university that distinguishes it from the knowledge that people acquire in their everyday lives everyday lives, at work, and in their…
Bringing Knowledge Back In: From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education
Bringing Knowledge Back In: From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education – Michael Young
Bringing Knowledge Back in Drawing on various developments in the sociology of knowledge, this book provides conceptual tools for people to think and debate about knowledge and education in different ways. It provides expositions of difficult ideas at the interface of epistemology and the sociology of knowledge, and links theoretical issues and practical/policy questions.
Bringing Knowledge Back In: From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education
Naming of Adult Autism – Dr. James McGrath
Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition. Autism is a ‘social disorder’, defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of normalcy against which Autism is defined have too rarely been questioned. This book demonstrates the…
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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – E. D Hirsch
In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has…
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Who Owns the Learning?: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age Kindle Edition – Alan November
Learn how to harness students’ natural curiosity to develop self-directed learners. Discover how technology allows students to take ownership of their learning, create and share learning tools, and participate in work that is meaningful to them and others. Real-life examples illustrate how every student can become a teacher and a global publisher. The embedded QR…
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Who Owns the Learning?: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age – Alan November
Learn how to harness students’ natural curiosity to develop self-directed learners. Discover how technology allows students to take ownership of their learning, create and share learning tools, and participate in work that is meaningful to them and others. Real-life examples illustrate how every student can become a teacher and a global publisher. The embedded QR…
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Children and Learning: for Parents – Michael Griffin Kindle Edition
A guide for parents wishing to support their children in becoming self-determined, life-long learners. Children and Learning presents effective strategies for reaching excellence based on the quality and quantity of effort.
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Learning Strategies For Musical Success – Michael Griffin Kindle Edition
When it comes to musical skill, why is it that some people achieve so much more than others? We are frequently led to believe this is because of a talent hardwired into their DNA. Now, music educator Michael Griffin dismisses that age-old notion in favour of another known factor: practice. His new book, Learning Strategies…
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Learning Strategies For Musical Success – Michael Griffin
When it comes to musical skill, why is it that some people achieve so much more than others? We are frequently led to believe this is because of a talent hardwired into their DNA. Now, music educator Michael Griffin dismisses that age-old notion in favour of another known factor: practice. His new book, Learning Strategies…
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Children and Learning: for Parents – Michael Griffin
For parents seeking guidance on how to support their child’s development. Children and Learning provides clear explanations on the most effective and important strategies for cultivating self-determined, life-long learners.
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Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives (Solutions) – Robert Marzano – Kindle Edition
Design and teach effective learning goals and objectives by following strategies based on the strongest research available. This book includes a summary of key research behind these classroom practices and shows how to implement them using step-by-step hands-on strategies. Short quizzes help readers assess their understanding of the instructional best practices explained in each section.
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The Highly Engaged Classroom (Classroom Strategies) – Robert Marzano – Kindle Edition
Student engagement happens as a result of a teacher’s careful planning and execution of specific strategies. This self-study text provides in-depth understanding of how to generate high levels of student attention and engagement. Using the suggestions in this book, every teacher can create a classroom environment where engagement is the norm, not the exception.
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Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading (Classroom Strategies) – Robert Marzano_ Kindle Edition
Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific benefits of formative assessment and explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades. Detailed examples bring each concept to life,…
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Classroom Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher – Robert Marzano – Kindle Edition
How does classroom management affect student achievement? What techniques do teachers find most effective? How important are schoolwide policies and practices in setting the tone for individual classroom management? In this follow-up to What Works in Schools, Robert J. Marzano analyzes research from more than 100 studies on classroom management to discover the answers to these…
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How to Create Kind Schools: 12 extraordinary projects making schools happier and helping every child fit in – Jenny Hulme – Kindle Edition
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Kidscape, the national charity that works to challenge and prevent bullying, this book offers readers an insight into a collection of innovative projects currently running in schools to promote inclusion, tolerance and kindness. From a gay role model to a peer mentor, a dance workshop to a gardening club, an…
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How to Create Kind Schools: 12 extraordinary projects making schools happier and helping every child fit in – Jenny Hulme
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Kidscape, the national charity that works to challenge and prevent bullying, this book offers readers an insight into a collection of innovative projects currently running in schools to promote inclusion, tolerance and kindness. From a gay role model to a peer mentor, a dance workshop to a gardening club, an…
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