This best practice, reassuring teaching guide will help to build trainees' confidence in teaching PSHE to primary children.

A self audit tool for trainee primary teachers to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses in science and to monitor and evaluate their progress towards Qualified Teacher Status.

Touching on current curriculum concerns and the wider challenges of developing high-quality science education, this book is an indispensable overview of important areas of teaching every aspiring primary science school teacher needs to understand.

A guide to balancing academic work, placements and home life to help students to stay the course and succeed at their studies!

Educational leadership is changing, and reflexive practice is the new 'must do' at all levels of education. This book helps headteachers and senior leaders to reflect and understand more about how understanding emotion is key to sustainability in educational leadership.

The current challenges facing higher education are addressed, and the authors provide a new way of thinking about the many aspects of learning and teaching.

This book brings a wide range of themes under one cover: the supervision process, writing, the viva, the examination of written and oral 'performance' and the aftermath, including publishing.

Focusing specifically on the needs of primary teacher trainees and the requirements for Qualified Teacher Status, this book explores new initiatives in primary language teaching in a theoretical context. Theory snapshots, task boxes and teaching ideas help students understand the theory and translate it into good practice.

Students on every childhood course study the main theories and approaches in the field, and this book conveniently brings together the work of the main theorists including Montesorri, Vygotsky and Reggio Emilia.

Ieder van ons is ooit een starter geweest. Idealiter zijn we dat van tijd tot tijd opnieuw. Starten houdt immers een spanningsboog in, het aanbreken van een nieuwe periode, het ontginnen van nieuw terrein. Het is een periode waarin we ons uitgedaagd weten, waarin we op onze reeds aanwezige competenties en talenten aangesproken worden, maar waar we ook zelf aan de lijve ondervinden waar er nog groeipotentieel is.

In dit themanummer willen we stilstaan bij de startperiode van een leerkracht. ...