The new edition of a unique guide for students, practitioners, parents, and administrators of young children who want to understand specific strategies to maximise parent involvement and collaboration.

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

What type of leadership do you practice?

Many of us rely on transformational and instructional leadership. But there are advantages in applying a holistic angle including all stakeholders-an approach known as collaborative leadership. Peter DeWitt unpacks six factors framed through John Hattie's research while painting a powerful scheme: meet stakeholders where they are, motivate stakeholders to strive for improvement, model how to do it. The blueprint will inspire you to:

-Transform your le...

This book presents practical strategies and tools for increasing student achievement through the collective actions of educators.

The bestselling essential guide for mathematics teachers and those training to teach, Yes, but why? answers all your questions, and sheds light on the hidden connections between everything in mathematics at school. The new edition includes a new 'Test Yourself' feature, additional coverage on fractions and much more!

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.