This book supports ITE students with academic writing and enables them to approach their assignments with confidence and understanding.

In this essential resource, science educator Page Keeley provides teachers with guidance, suggestions and techniques for using formative assessment to improve teaching and learning in the science classroom.

New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NDPL) provides a comprehensive strategy for systemwide transformation. Using the 6 competencies of NDPL and a wealth of vivid examples, Fullan re-defines and re-examines what deep learning is and identifies the practical strategies for revolutionizing learning and leadership.

This book is based on one of the most important influences on student learning: teachers who believe that they can improve their students' achievements. Along with this, the book explores the notion that this powerful belief can also exist between students, enhancing their achievements but also preparing them for real world encounters and job demands.

This new edition retains the appeal, clarity and practicality that made the first so successful, and continues to provide a fundamental introduction to the principles and purposes of rubrics, with guidance on how to construct them, use them to align course content to learning outcomes, and apply them in a wide variety of courses, and to all forms of assignment.

Every teacher knows them – the students who are continuously balancing on their chair legs or who prefer to hide in their hoodies all day long. These students are using all kinds of tricks to be able to stay focused, as they are under- or overresponsive to sensory input and trying to restore their balance.

Children who struggle with processing sensory input can experience a wide range of symptoms, including hypersensitivity to sound, sight and touch, poor fine motor skills and easy distract...

The Hidden Lives of Learners takes the reader deep into the hitherto undiscovered world of the learner. It explores the three worlds which together shape a student's learning - the public world of the teacher, the highly influential world of peers, and the student's own private world and experiences. What becomes clear is that just because a teacher is teaching, does not mean students are learning. Using a unique method of data collection through meticulous recording - audio, video, observati...

This book dispells the common misconceptions in maths and helps teachers inspire a succesful understanding and engagement of number learning

Als het over taboes in onderwijs ging, stond het thema ‘centrale toetsen’ lange tijd steevast op nummer één. Het haalde niet altijd een diepgaand discours, want er waren te veel hardnekkige drempels om te overbruggen. Zo waren argumenten als het gevaar voor ‘teaching to the test’, ‘momentopnames’ en ‘staatspedagogiek’ veelgehoorde argumenten om centrale toetsen in te voeren.

Met dit themanummer wil de redactie van ‘Beleid voeren in het onderwijs’ bijdragen aan het debat ...