This book is for new or aspiring computer science teachers wishing to improve their subject knowledge and gain confidence in the classroom. And it’s for experienced computer science teachers who wish to hone their practice, in particular in the areas of explicit instruction, tackling misconceptions and exploring pedagogical content knowledge.

You will read some of the backstory to our subject – the “hinterland” – those fascinating journeys into history that make the subject come alive and place it in historical context. These stories will help you to enrich your lessons, cement core knowledge, develop cultural capital and help you excite a life-long love for the subject. We will go beyond the mark scheme to explore the subject knowledge behind the answers, giving you the confidence to discuss the field in greater depth, enabling you to use explicit instruction methods: presenting skills and concepts clearly and directly enabling student mastery.

We will explore misconceptions that arise when teaching our subject, so you can “head them off at the pass”. And we will look at teaching ideas – the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) – exploring the helpful analogies, questions and activities that work for each topic: practices that can be lifted and dropped straight into the classroom to immediately enhance your teaching.

Trainee or pre-service teachers, NQTs and early-career teachers will find this book invaluable, experienced teachers will find it inspiring, and all will benefit from a fresh look at the hinterland and subject pedagogy that makes computer science a fascinating subject to teach.

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???? Show your appreciation for the ones who have done the most for your education, future, and life with this beautiful teacher’s notebook commemorating the difference they made.

Everybody has that one exceptional teacher that has completely changed their life – Teacher Gift: Never Forget The Difference You’ve Made is a teacher’s appreciation journal that reminds them how important they are.

With 120 lined pages and a gorgeously designed soft matte cover, this teacher’s notebook is the perfect appreciation gift for teachers of all grade levels and subjects. Give them a keepsake they can treasure forever and use daily for notes, thoughts, or planning.

Description:

• Cover: Soft, Matte
• Paper color: white
• Size: 7 x 10 inches (similar to B5 and easily fits into smaller bags of purses)
• 120 pages

Whether you share it with a current educator or one from a previous year, Teacher Gift: Never Forget The Difference You’ve Made is a wonderful addition to the desk of that remarkable teacher, mentor, or professor you hold in your heart.

Buy your copy now and show your gratitude to your favorite teacher today!

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Ever thought about teaching English online?

ESL teaching online today is booming; top teachers are never short of clients and charge handsomely for their services, all while working from the comfort of their own home.

Pick up a copy of the Ultimate Teaching ESL Online Manual today and join them, either as a side hustle or a full-time occupation.

Using the techniques in this book, I became a top-rated teacher on a well-known platform in less than four months. Since then I have taught back-to-back classes and often have to turn away clients.

The Ultimate Teach ESL Online Manual reduces the learning curve new online teachers face from months to days, establishing your reputation as a fantastic online ESL teacher right from the first lesson and building that loyal client list who’ll keep coming back for more.

With this book you will have the power to:

o Establish yourself on language learning platforms like Verbling and Italkie.
o Attract students from day one with a stand-out introduction video.
o Build a loyal client list by teaching fantastic English classes especially designed for an online environment.
o Avoid common mistakes that new online teachers make which lose them students.
o Teach vocabulary and grammar online with 28 pages of downloadable pictures for you to display in your lessons.
o Keep your students talking with speaking activities including role plays, debates and story-telling, specifically designed for online lessons. o Teach language points, difficult to explain in a ‘non-physical’ class (such as pronouns, prepositions of place, conditionals and movement verbs) with purposely designed pictures and worksheets.

The Ultimate Teach ESL Online Manual is part of The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual series: a complete English teaching system designed so that any native speaker (with TEFL experience or not) can pick up the book and start teaching.

Dive in and discover a skill which will serve you for the rest of your life.

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There’s plenty to do when planning the curriculum in primary schools. If it feels daunting, then one of the most helpful things is to talk to other people about how they have developed the curriculum for their particular subject or key stage.

This is what John Tomsett and Mary Myatt have done. After the secondary ‘Huh: Curriculum conversations between subject and senior leaders’ was published, they were flooded with requests to produce a primary version.

They enlisted the help of renowned primary specialists, Rachel Higginson, Lekha Sharma and Emma Turner to have conversations with primary teachers and key stage co-ordinators who are doing great curriculum development work.

Each chapter provides insights into the importance of individual subjects and the unique contribution each makes to pupils’ cognitive and personal development.

The subject chapters discuss the steps colleagues take to ensure that there is a coherent thread across the year groups, as the discrete subjects deliver, collectively, the primary curriculum.

These conversations show how the craft of creating a rich, challenging curriculum for every subject is not a quick fix. This is a nuanced piece of work, and there are many ways of approaching it. Each chapter also contains links to subject associations and helpful resources.

Primary Huh has been written for subject leaders and key stage co-ordinators; it has also been written for senior leaders, as they prepare to have supportive conversations with their colleagues who are responsible for curriculum development.

Primary Huh is offered as a prompt rather than the last word. Informed debate is, as they say, the fuel of curriculum development.

And why have John and Mary called it ‘Huh’? Well, John discovered that Huh is the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity, fertility and regeneration, and they thought that was a pretty good metaphor for their work on the curriculum!

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Thinking about teaching English, but don’t know where to start?

Pick up a copy of The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual and discover a skill that will serve you for the rest of your life.

What people are saying about The Ultimate ESL Manual on the Amazon.

‘What a great book! Andromeda’s knowledge and experience shines through. She gets straight to the point, gives very clear grammar explanations and loads of practical help,’ Sheila Longden.

‘This is a one-stop shop for preparing powerful classes that throws out the need for costly and confusing text books. Priceless!’ Amazon Customer.

‘Great book, saved me hours of prep! Each grammar point comes with its own speaking activity so you won’t run out of ideas about what to teach your students,’ TeacherA24.

The Ultimate Teaching ESL Manual is a complete English teaching system designed so that any native speaker (with TEFL experience or not) can pick up the book and start teaching.

With this book you will have the power to:

o Start teaching English online or in the classroom now with a step-by-step guide on how to teach every grammar point in the English language.
o Teach vocabulary with over 60 lexical sets covering beginner, intermediate, advanced to super-advanced levels.
o Keep your students engaged with follow-on activities for every lesson including role plays, games and problem solving activities.
o Cut down on preparation time with lesson plans for all language points.
o Add interest to your classes with an appendix full of illustrated worksheets which manual owners can download in high resolution from the book’s website.
o Travel light and save money on expensive textbooks with everything you need to teach English in one book.
o Provide students with fantastic lessons they want with a methodology focused on language learning through speaking practice.

The Manual teaches a methodology whereby students learn through speaking activities (rather than traditional textbooks) mimicking how we learnt our native language as children.

Students make rapid progress with the constant speaking practice, while for the teacher, lessons are creative and rewarding, giving you the power to decide what to teach and how.

Classes are simple, effective and take less time to prepare as there are no handouts to worry about, exercises to mark or any of the other work that comes with traditional ESL teaching.

The Manual includes lesson plans, drills and speaking activities for every grammar point as well as methodology, games, vocabulary sets and a whole host of other stuff to make your classes special.

Dive in and discover a skill for life.

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Reading and writing float on a sea of talk declared James Britton and yet in our current education system, where the pressure is on for students to pass written exams, it is all too easily left adrift. How then, as teachers and educators, can we turn the tide and harness the power of talk in our classrooms?

This is not just an educational choice but rather, given students vastly different experiences of language, a moral imperative.

Amy Gaunt and Alice Stott s must-read book serves as a detailed and engaging guide to get talking in class. It blends the academic research and evidence, with first-hand classroom experiences and practical strategies to enable you to unlock the power of oracy in your classroom and equip your students with the speaking skills they need to thrive in the twenty first century. 

Transform Teaching and Learning Through Talk describes how to: 

• Identify and teach good talk (and listening!)
• Build a classroom culture which values talk
• Create meaningful and authentic contexts for oracy
• Support your quietest students to speak up too!

This book is a rich resource for teachers, drawing upon key academic research and outlining what this could look like in your classroom. Throughout, the authors share personal insights, engaging anecdotes and tried-and-tested approaches drawn from their experience teaching in primary and secondary classrooms. Whether you teach college-age students or those just starting their journey through school, this book will challenge you to think deeply about what you can do integrate oracy into your practice.  

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