This revised edition is updated for the new qualification requirements and the Professional Standards for Teachers. Essential course support for the new Level 3 Award by best-selling author of Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector.

This book demonstrates how the outdoor environment is enriching learning opportunities for children and deepening their connections with the natural world.

This book supports practitioners to understand science in the early years curriculum (i.e. understanding the world) and how best to nurture key scientific skills in order to form a firm base for learning for young children aged 3-7.

Part of the Lessons in Teaching series, this book provides exemplar lessons in phonics and uses them as a starting point for learning, exploring the theory behind them, what makes them good, and how they can be adapted to suit different year groups and different schools.

This book will help students demonstrate a thorough understanding of the history of psychology, as well as the subject's complex theoretical and sometimes controversial philosophical foundations.

Essential reading for professionals making judgements under pressure. It demonstrates how self-leadership is not only about surviving but thriving in a continually changing environment and introduces key theories, skills and debates to help professionals deliver high quality professional practice every day.

Now updated with coverage on babies and early reading, language acquisition and how children learn, this new edition continues to provide trainees and teachers with a broad understanding of teaching reading and phonics.

A fun and humorous introductory book that helps readers to begin to make sense of brands - what they are, what they do, why and how - through theory made enjoyable by plenty of current examples.

Packed full of essential study advice on topics such as reading strategies and exam technique, plus information on the latest assistive technology, this one-stop guide motivates, inspires and guides students with dyslexia and other SpLDs to succeed throughout your studies.

This cutting-edge overview explores big data and the related topic of computer code, examining the implications for education and schooling for today and the near future.