This text teaches students the skills they need to effectively collaborate with parents and families to ensure a child's success in the classroom by taking a lifespan approach with a special emphasis on the critical transition points in a child's life.

For busy classroom teachers, this practical book makes manageable the process of differentiating mathematics instruction to maximize each student's learning potential, ultimately leading to improved test scores.

This updated bestseller offers a roadmap for reflective practice that presents research-based information and ideas and strategies for engaging in reflective practice alone, with partners, in small groups, and even schoolwide.

Two renowned educators show teachers how to mine what readers write and say for clues that guide follow up lessons.

This book will show teachers what engages students, and how to do it in their classrooms everyday. Each chapter includes an overview of the strategy (with relevant research), and several lesson ideas for implementing it in the classroom.

This resource explores how mindfulness can improve teaching and learning, and helps students develop 21st century skills including creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, and communication.

With 75 tasks on full-color pages, this book offers a literacy instruction plan that ensures students benefit from independent effort and engagement.

This bestselling text offers theoretical detail and depth alongside a programme of activities to implement in practice which can improve literacy levels and support children with dyslexia.

Written for classroom teachers, this edition of a best-seller provides strategies that can be used to work with even the most difficult parents.

This second edition has been completely updated to cover recent events and issues including the Syrian refugee crisis, the Paris terror attacks, the rise of right-wing political parties, and the Shengen agreement, thus continuing to provide readers with a timely and significant resource