This is a key text that enables students to appreciate and understand the central role of observation in understanding, planning for and educating early years children.

This colourful new edition focuses on creative ways of teaching Science and working scientifically. It is also full of activities and ideas for practice that not only support trainee placements but also the first year in teaching.

Lesson planning and subject knowledge go hand in hand in this exciting new edition covering all teachers need to know to confidently teach the computing curriculum as well as explore opportunities for cross-curricular teaching.

Guides educators toward an understanding of the socio-cultural characteristics of classrooms and why such an understanding is critical to fostering academic engagement of African American students.

A practical guide to designing, implementing, and sustaining community-based learning in schools.

This book explores the idea of why branding schools is important, the benefits of branding a school, and gives leaders an action plan for branding.

For anyone who doesn't "fit in," this book offers survival strategies for managing the dynamics of difference and mentoring others who are targeted because they are different.

This book challenges the idea of a universal (Anglo American and Western European) view of early childhood education and highlights the importance of understanding contextual historical and cultural heritage, alongside the impact of various global challenges and tensions so the reader gains exclusive insights into children's daily experiences and the reality of early learning in different / other countries. With expert contributors drawn from across the world, this book is essential reading f...

Informed by international research along with contrasting perspectives on different forms of play, this book emphasises the importance of play to children, and the opportunities that play provides for learning and development.

Taking exemplar lessons as a starting point for developing subject knowledge, this book supports trainee and current teachers explore the theory behind them and shape lesson plans to effectively teach number in Primary School.