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

A new edition of this key text on research methods for all undergraduate education students.

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.

Behavior and Classroom Management in the Multicultural Classroom provides general and special education teachers with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to make the proactive, active, and reactive interventions necessary to create a positive classroom environment in which all students can learn.

It provides a comprehensive coverage of issues and debates in qualitative research applied to a purely educational context.

"Written in a commendably clear, direct, and accessible style, the authors systematically uncover and then explain the complexities of reading for a general reader, providing carefully selected advice on how best to teach reading to diverse learners."-Dr Robert Savage, McGill University

The comprehensive complete guide to the TAQA Award covering all units, written accessibly to support learners from all contexts with differing experience of training and assessments settings.

This must-have text bears in mind the various pathways to achieve EYTS and includes leadership activities to carry out within the role, making it an ideal resource for trainees to take them through their course straight into practice.

A succinct, clear guide to working with pupils (birth to 25 years) with special educational needs and disabilities, providing suggested strategies and examples of lesson plans as well as detailed advice on sources of further information.

Guides preservice and inservice teachers to be effective helpers in the context of the most common challenges, highlighting issues related to homelessness, grief and loss, and bullying and harassment. This book offers teachers techniques for taking better care of themselves and the students in their schools.