It has never been more important for trainee teachers to understand diversity, equity and inclusion from a teaching perspective. This text provides an up-to-date, grounded, and full understanding of the injustices and inequalities that impact our classrooms. It challenges trainees to rethink their own assumptions and biases and to take time to explore how schools and teachers can be active agents of positive change.

It empowers new teachers to be confident in their allyship of marginalised gr...

This book shows trainees what they need to know to teach all areas of primary grammar. It explains how to support more able children and outlines what good teaching of each part of grammar looks like in the classroom.

Play in the Early Years offers students an accessible introduction to Play, considering key concepts and current debates taking place here and now.

Little Guide for Teachers: Supporting Behaviour in the Classroom inspires you to rethink how you manage behaviour. Using the authors' tried and tested approach, this book encourages you to manage mood as a preventative strategy for disruptive behaviour.

This is a practical resource that provides teachers and schools ideas to support the embedding of text experience and deliver a reading rich curriculum that leads to higher student attainment and working at greater depth.

Now in its 3rd edition, this book provides a prime resource for for enabling the effective teaching of science at primary level. It now also includes a CD-rom of 200 science investigations for use with young learners of science, to help trainee teachers explore the practical application of the topics covered in the book.

Monte Carlo simulation is a method of evaluating substantive hypotheses and statistical estimators by developing a computer algorithm to simulate a population, drawing multiple samples from this pseudo-population, and evaluating estimates obtained from these samples. This book explains the logic behind the method and demonstrates its uses for research.

This innovative guide to research in early childhood takes you step-by-step through the research process.

A practical and accessible text on pedagogy for primary teacher trainees and Education Studies students. Features exercises designed to develop specific critical thinking skills.