This is the ideal overview of education policy for anyone studying Education Studies degrees at undergraduate level, or trainee teachers wanting a deeper understanding of how policy affects schools. It offers a critical contextual analysis of recent education policy in England and the political ideas that drive policy.

This book helps trainee teachers to both meet the content of Part 2 of the Teachers' Standards and develop the professionalism that supports their identity as a teacher.

This invaluable resource presents a clear process for using video to promote professional growth and teacher effectiveness.

This book identifies the mindset, processes, and actual behaviors that contribute to successful reform efforts and provide school leaders with concrete tools enabling them to be more effective.

This is a book about collaboration by education professionals on a global scale by first establishing the need for it then outlining how that collaboration can be created.

Combining a detailed focus on the core skills and principles underpinning good history teaching, this book will help develop a strong understanding of key historical concepts and the dynamics of the primary history national curriculum.

This essential guide for education students and researchers explains how to use quantitative methods for analysing educational data using IBM SPSS Statistics.

This book explores what reasoning is and what it is not. It includes background theory and a rationale for primary teachers alongside examples of how reasoning in primary mathematics and science classes can develop.

Teacher wellbeing, or a lack of it, is a major concern for the teaching profession. Research shows that there is a recruitment and retention crisis with over a third of the school, FE and HE profession expecting to leave by 2020. This new text supports teachers to be aware of themselves and the pressures they face at work.