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Spanish For Dummies Audio Set
3 hours of lessons on 3 CDs!The fun and easy way to communicate effectively in a new language!
Want to speak Spanish? Don’t have a lot of time? This practical audio set is designed to help you learn quickly and easily at home or on the road. From basic greetings and expressions to grammar and conversations, you’ll grasp the essentials and start communicating right away! Plus, you can follow along with the handy, 96-page portable guide―filled with the words and phrases you’ll hear on the CDs as well as a mini dictionary.
Skip around and learn at your own pace
- CD 1: Get started with basic words and phrases.
- CD 2: Form sentences and practice parts of speech.
- CD 3: Handle real-world situations.
Discover how to
- Handle greetings and introductions
- Ask questions and understand answers
- Build your vocabulary
- Talk about numbers, time, and the calendar
- Ask for directions
- Get help at a hotel, the bank, or a store
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Computer Science OCR A level H446 Spec. Simplifies teaching by adhering precisely to specification: Detailed, but concise coverage of each section. Great for home-learning &…
Easy to understand; covers H446 course in great detail. See more: https://bytepublishers.company.site . OCR A level: broad, deep, challenging to learn & teach. Written in response to issues encountered teaching the subject. Follows H446 spec. section by section; ensures teachers & students know that all subject matter has been covered. Content is covered in a compact, clear style with colour used throughout to highlight different sections and key content. Shown below is the first part of the contents, as you can see it follows the specification exactly: Component 1: Content of Computer systems 1.1 Characteristics of contemporary processors, input, output & storage devices 1.1.1 Structure & function of the processor (a) Main components of processor (b) Fetch-Decode-Execute Cycle including its effects on registers (c) Factors affecting performance of CPU (d) Use of pipelining in a processor to improve efficiency.Read more
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100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding RE Lessons (100 Ideas for Teachers)
No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!
The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.
Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won’t fail to inspire and engage all learners.
_______________‘An absolute gift to the RE community’ – Mary Myatt
With an emphasis on all faiths and beliefs, 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding RE Lessons presents tried-and-tested ideas that can be used in any lesson about religion.
Andy Lewis uses his experience as Director of Religious Education to share ideas and advice on how to construct a successful RE lesson, engage students in the subject, provide effective feedback and exam techniques, and bring RE to life in the secondary curriculum. RE can be a very difficult subject to teach as many of the topics that come up can be challenging to discuss with young people, especially with the complexities in legal status, curriculum content and public perceptions. God, ethics, death – just a few topics that could cause controversy in your classroom! Covering a range of different faiths, beliefs and worldviews, this book is suitable for all RE teachers regardless of the syllabus they are teaching.
100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding RE Lessons is the essential resource for helping students to develop an understanding between communities and eradicate religious prejudices and stereotypes, with cross-curricular strategies that reach out to members of local faith communities and use technology to ‘visit’ sacred sites.
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Teaching Rebooted: Using the science of learning to transform classroom practice
Teaching Rebooted uncovers the most important pieces of educational research on the science of learning, helping teachers to understand how we learn and retain information. Jon Tait explores strategies such as metacognition, interleaving, dual coding and retrieval practice, examining the evidence behind each approach and providing practical ideas to embed them in classroom practice.This pick-up-and-go manual highlights some of the classroom fads that have come and gone to allow readers to reflect on their practice and decision-making. It offers practical tips to help teachers change what they are doing in the classroom straightaway, bridging the gap between academic research and day-to-day practice for teachers at any stage of their career. Written by an experienced senior leader responsible for teaching and learning, school improvement, professional development and educational research, this guide will help reboot teaching so it is both evidence informed and effective.
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100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding History Lessons (100 Ideas for Teachers)
No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!
The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.
Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won’t fail to inspire and engage all learners.
_______________Part of the best-selling 100 Ideas series, this book offers teachers quick and easy ways to engage students, convey complex knowledge, and build history-specific thinking skills. The activities in this book aim to embrace what is mind-boggling, bizarre and extraordinary about history and tap into students’ innate curiosity and wonder, while still catering to the twin pressures of exam results and observation.
With these criteria in mind, there are plenty of tips on demonstrating progress, ways of differentiating, preparing students for history assessments and examinations – while still having fun.
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100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Art (100 Ideas for Teachers)
Adele Darlington shares 100 creative and innovative ideas to engage pupils in all areas of the primary National Curriculum for art.Featuring a whole host of step-by-step activities with tips, bonus ideas and resource lists, this book will help primary teachers develop pupils’ knowledge and shape their attitudes towards creativity. From exploring mark making through a musical Pen Disco to designing an eco-friendly home of the future, these fun activities cover drawing, painting, sculpture, and learning about different artists and creative careers.
Each idea uses accurate art terminology, with clear explanations, to ensure children are being exposed to key vocabulary and concepts. The ideas are ready to use and easy to follow for all primary teachers, regardless of their experience or level of confidence in teaching art.
Written by experts in their field, the 100 Ideas books offer practical ideas for busy teachers. They include step-by-step instructions, teaching tips and taking it further ideas. Follow the conversation on Twitter using #100Ideas.
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Three Magic Words: The Key to Power, Peace, and Plenty (An Eckhart Tolle Edition)
A reissue of a groundbreaking self-help classic, revised and updated for modern timesIn recent years, self-help concepts such as positive affirmation, creative visualization, and the Law of Attraction have become part of mainstream American culture, but these ideas are not new. In fact, they were beautifully articulated by U. S. Andersen in Three Magic Words back in 1954. This lost classic has inspired thousands of readers over the years, including bestselling author Eckhart Tolle, who believes that the time is right to reintroduce Three Magic Words to a new generation of readers.
Three Magic Words contains a simple but profound thesis: we can shape the outer world by shaping our inner thoughts. Instead of being controlled by circumstances, we can become architects of our reality by harnessing the power of consciousness itself. Throughout the book, Andersen helps readers reframe difficult situations and cultivate empowering thoughts. He also delves into related topics, including:
– Understanding the true relationship between mind and matter
– Freeing yourself from limiting beliefs
– Programming your thoughts for success
– Tapping the power of the subconscious mind
– Developing your innate intuitive abilitiesAbove all, Andersen leaves readers with a potentially life-changing insight: “There is only one mover in all creation and that mover is thought.”
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Memoir Writing For Dummies
The fast and easy way to write your memoirMemoir writing is a growing phenomenon, and not just by celebrities and politicians. Everyone has a story to tell, and Memoir Writing For Dummies provides hopeful writers with the tools they need to share their life stories with the world and become published authors.
With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions―along with helpful tips and advice on how to get published―Memoir Writing For Dummies shows you how to put pen to paper and hone the craft of writing a truly compelling memoir. You’ll get advice on how to explore your memories, map out your story, perfect your plot, setting, character, and dialogue, and so much more.
- Includes tips on getting over writer’s block
- Guides you through every step of the writing and editing processes
- Covers the best ways to market a finished memoir
Packed with proven tips and writing tricks of the trade, Memoir Writing For Dummies gives you everything you need to ensure your life story is never forgotten.
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Addressing Educational Disadvantage in Schools and Colleges: The Essex Way
The genesis for this book, and the strategy within it, is a longstanding commitment from Essex County Council to improve the life chances and life choices of disadvantaged pupils being educated in Essex.
The purpose of the book is to set out a strategic, evidence-informed approach with pupils, families, teachers, leaders, system leaders and wider agencies which puts learners first.
This approach is rooted in best practice. It centres on improving the day to day learning experiences of disadvantaged pupils, leading to better long term choice and opportunity.
Unity Schools Partnership and Essex County Council hope it will support efforts to address the impact of socio-economic disadvantage on learning in schools and colleges nationally.
‘Few national challenges deserve greater priority than closing the disadvantage gap in education. This book provides carefully considered, practical and impactful advice for schools’ – David Laws, Schools Minister 2012-2015
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Time to Think: The things that stop us and how to deal with them
Being a leader is a wonderful privilege but can also come with challenges we don’t always feel prepared for. How often do we tie ourselves in knots wondering about the right way to deal with a difficult situation at work? Or wondering why no one ever told us how to manage some of the challenges? This book is for people who need practical ways of tackling the tricky issues in leadership to move forward courageously. From people pleasing to crucial conversations, we look at ten areas that can cause us to be ‘stuck’ and how we can get ourselves free. Dip into this book when you need some support to inspire, motivate, and equip you in whatever stage of leadership you’re at so that you can lead more confidently and freely, and be your best more of the time.Read more
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First Little Readers: Guided Reading Levels G & H (Parent Pack): 16 Irresistible Books That Are Just the Right Level for Growing Readers
Jumpstart reading success with this big collection of motivating storybooks correlated with Guided Reading Level A. Most pages of these full-color storybooks feature just one line of simple, repetitive text to help children learn to read with ease and confidence. Includes a tip-filled parent guide. A great value! Includes:
- 25 full color, 8-page books
- 4-page parent guide
- Sturdy storage box
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100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Stretch and Challenge (100 Ideas for Teachers)
No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!
The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.
Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won’t fail to inspire and engage all learners.
_______________With the new developments across all secondary curriculum areas, there is greater emphasis on building depth of subject knowledge; stretching and challenging students of all abilities is essential to achieving this deep level of learning. 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Stretch and Challenge presents innovative and exciting ideas, techniques and activities to embed stretch and challenge strategies into everyday classroom practice, regardless of subject area.
Developing good stretch and challenge practices enables the cognitive process that helps learners retain new information more easily and work more productively. Looking at questioning, marking and feedback, starters, plenaries and technology-based teaching, Paul Wright explains why the strategies presented in this book are so effective.
100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Stretch and Challenge is the must-have guide to implementing stretch and challenge practices in the classroom with ideas designed to raise attainment for all students and keep them engaged in the classroom. Accompanying online resources are also available to download from a companion website.
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Teaching Sprints: How Overloaded Educators Can Keep Getting Better
Enhance teachers’ expertise – in every term, every school year.With all of the everyday demands of teaching, the job of improving classroom practice is a challenge for teachers and school leaders. Grounded by research and field-tested around the world, Teaching Sprints offers a professional improvement process that works in theory and practice.
Including insights from the field, and practical protocols, this book outlines a simple model for engaging in short bursts of evidence-informed improvement work. Using Teaching Sprints, teams of teachers can enhance their expertise together, in a way that is sustainable on the ground.
In Teaching Sprints, readers will find:
- three big ideas about practice improvement
- a detailed description of a simple improvement process
- advice on how to establish a routine for continual improvement
Whether you’re a classroom teacher thinking about your own practice, an instructional leader supporting colleagues to teach better tomorrow, or a school leader interested in enhancing your program for professional learning, Teaching Sprints is a must-read for you.
“Among the greatest unresolved issues within schools is developing great models of implementation: Sprints is certainly one of the breakthroughs. This book can make major improvements in schools and classrooms, ironically by focusing on tiny shifts.”
John Hattie, Laureate Professor
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Melbourne, Australia“Once in a while you come across a book that really cuts through the complexity of issues and provides a refreshing and practical approach to improving what happens in schools. This is such a book. Evidence-based, easy to read and full of down-to-earth ideas that busy teachers can implement. I love it.”
Steve Munby, Visiting Professor
University College London
Former CEO, National College for School Leadership
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The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual: No textbooks, minimal equipment just fantastic lessons anywhere: 1
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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The Last Wild Trilogy Piers Torday 3 Books Bundle Collection (The Last Wild, The Wild Beyond, The Dark Wild) (The Last Wild Trilogy)
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively Piers Torday The Last Wild Trilogy 3 Books Bundle Collection The Last Wild This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn’t know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this 1. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom. 2. They are talking to him. 3. His life will never be quite the same again…A captivating animal adventure destined to be loved by readers of all ages. The Dark Wild Twelve year old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was over. He was wrong. Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, a dark wild remains animals who believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies. And soon Kester realises he is the only one who can stop them. Kester Jaynes saved the animals. Can he save the humans too? The Wild Beyond This is the story of a boy named Kester. He has rescued the last wild animals in the world, and saved his capital city from destruction. But now he must face his greatest challenge yet, because 1. The only blue whale on the planet has brought news from across the ocean 2. A mysterious steel dome has risen from the Four Towers 3. Out there, somewhere, a brave mouse holds the key to the future…Read more
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Japanese For Dummies, 3rd Edition
Learn to speak Japanese
Japanese language enrollment is up by 27.5 percent since 2006, making it the sixth most popular language studied on college campuses. Whether studying for school, business, or travel, Japanese For Dummies provides complete coverage of all Japanese language essentials including grammar, usage, and vocabulary.
Complete with free conversational audio tracks online, this handy book offers everything you need to learn the Japanese language to get ahead in class or on a trip to Japan. In no time, you’ll make sense of the language well enough to communicate with native speakers!
- Includes expanded coverage of grammar, verb conjugations, and pronunciations
- Provides a refreshed mini-dictionary with even more essential vocabulary
- Offers useful exercises and practice opportunities
- Helps you learn to speak conversational Japanese with ease
Whether for work, school, or fun, Japanese For Dummies is the fast and easy way to add this language to your skillset!
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The Learning Rainforest: Great Teaching in Real Classrooms
What really stunned me about this book is the way that Tom has taken the research evidence that does exist, and woven it into a powerful vision of how education can transform lives, even in the most challenging settings. I know of many books that do a great job of summarizing the research on reading, on memory, on assessment, on feedback, and so on. I do not know of a single other book that addresses so well all the threads that have to be woven together to create great schools, in such a readable way.” – Dylan WiliamThe Learning Rainforest captures different elements of our understanding and experience of the art and science of teaching. It is a celebration of great teaching and the intellectual and personal rewards that it brings. It’s aimed at all teachers; busy people working in complex environments with little time to spare. The core of the book is a guide to making teaching both effective and manageable using a three-part structure: establishing conditions; building knowledge; exploring possibilities. It provides an accessible summary of key contemporary evidence-based ideas about teaching, curriculum and assessment and the debates that all teachers should be engaging in. It’s packed with strategies for making great teaching attainable in the context of real schools. The author’s ideas about what constitutes great teaching are drawn from his experiences as a teacher and a school leader over 30 years, alongside everything he has read and the debates he’s engaged with during that time.
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Ready to Teach: Macbeth: A compendium of subject knowledge, resources and pedagogy
What is the best approach for helping students to understand higher level concepts? How can specific subject knowledge be implemented in lessons?
Ready to Teach: Macbeth brings together the deep subject knowledge, resources and classroom strategies needed to teach Shakespeare’s tragic play, as well as the pedagogical theory behind why these ideas work, helping teachers to deliver a knowledge-rich curriculum with impact.
Each chapter contains lesson-by-lesson essays and commentaries that enhance subject knowledge on key areas of the text alongside fully resourced lessons reflecting current and dynamic best practice.
The book also offers an introduction to the key pedagogical concepts which underpin the lessons and why they are proven to help students develop powerful knowledge and key skills.
Whether you are new to teaching or looking for different ways into the text, Ready to Teach: Macbeth is the perfect companion to the study of the Scottish play .
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Hooked on Books: Transforming the Teaching of Reading
Transform the teaching of reading to primary pupils! In this book, Jane Considine reveals her structured, rigorous system for teaching reading. Reading is a typical stumbling block for children. In order to get to grips with literacy and comprehension, primary school children of all attainment levels will benefit from Hooked on Books’ revolutionary methods. In this 250-page book, Jane Considine builds on the English National Curriculum objectives for whole class teaching with activities, exercises and teaching methods based on a whole framework for unlocking the teaching of reading and comprehension. Key aspects of the Hooked On Books framework include: Book Talk – A whole class comprehension and targeted group approach to teaching reading, ensuring pupils of all levels participate. The Reading Rainbow – A fully encompassing approach that targets reading competencies, covers the English National Curriculum and develops understanding. Demonstration Reading – The process of teachers modelling the internal thinking of a reader. This is to demonstrate how a reader thinks during the process of ‘reading for meaning’ and how they internalise and understand. Demonstration Comprehension – The process of clear, out-loud thinking by the teacher while modelling answers to questions and showcasing ‘thesaurus thinking’ to ensure the most precise words are used. Jane Considine is an experienced educational practitioner and author of revolutionary learning resources with over 25 years in education consultancy. “Book talk” is the jewel in the crown of our whole-school reading strategy. It supports and challenges the children’s understanding and comprehension of texts, enabling them to become inspired, confident and enthusiastic readers.” – Darren Smith, Head TeacherRead more
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Primary Music for every teacher: How to effectively teach classroom music as a non-musician. Lesson ideas linked to 6 curriculum areas, without the need for instruments
A book full of practical tips, ideas and guidance for embedding high quality Music lessons into Primary Curriculum teaching. This book has been written specifically for teachers without a Musical background, however, teachers with musical training will also benefit from the array of ideas within. Lessons have been designed without the need for musical instruments to ensure that even the classrooms with minimal resources can still access the learning, even so, using the instruments available to you is highly encouraged.
Content can be extended and adapted easily to ensure a high quality music education that can last the academic year. Lesson ideas are scaffolded to suit every year group, ensuring that all students are challenged, or supported, throughout.
Suitable for new teachers & experienced teachers, non-musicians & musicians.
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Writing Fiction For Dummies
A complete guide to writing and selling your novelSo you want to write a novel? Great! That’s a worthy goal, no matter what your reason. But don’t settle for just writing a novel. Aim high. Write a novel that you intend to sell to a publisher. Writing Fiction for Dummies is a complete guide designed to coach you every step along the path from beginning writer to royalty-earning author. Here are some things you’ll learn in Writing Fiction for Dummies:
- Strategic Planning: Pinpoint where you are on the roadmap to publication; discover what every reader desperately wants from a story; home in on a marketable category; choose from among the four most common creative styles; and learn the self-management methods of professional writers.
- Writing Powerful Fiction: Construct a story world that rings true; create believable, unpredictable characters; build a strong plot with all six layers of complexity of a modern novel; and infuse it all with a strong theme.
- Self-Editing Your Novel: Psychoanalyze your characters to bring them fully to life; edit your story structure from the top down; fix broken scenes; and polish your action and dialogue.
- Finding An Agent and Getting Published: Write a query letter, a synopsis, and a proposal; pitch your work to agents and editors without fear.
Writing Fiction For Dummies takes you from being a writer to being an author. It can happen―if you have the talent and persistence to do what you need to do.
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Primary Huh: Curriculum conversations with subject leaders in primary schools
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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Teach to the Top: Aiming High for Every Learner
‘Teach to the Top’ is a research-informed guide to aspirational teaching, focusing on how embedding higher-level knowledge in the classroom empowers students to succeed and to enjoy learning.
Questioning existing orthodoxies around ability, ‘Teach to the Top’ sets out a vision for an education system in which pupils of all attainment levels are enabled to make fantastic progress by being exposed to sophisticated concepts, and afforded opportunities to think deeply and grapple with stimulating ideas.
Making a convincing case for the centrality of subject knowledge, the book also shows how affording teachers the professional autonomy to participate in continual development of their own knowledge benefits both teachers and students.
As well as engaging critically with a wealth of educational research, ‘Teach to the Top’ outlines a plethora of research-informed strategies for teaching to the top.
Topics include embedding advanced knowledge in curriculum planning, approaches to challenging classroom talk, the fundamental importance of increasing learners’ confidence, the dangers of differentiation and grade-focused feedback, and the value of an adaptable approach to planning.
Both thoughtful and practical, ‘Teach to the Top’ develops a persuasive justification for the entitlement of every child to higher-level knowledge, alongside providing teachers with a range of practical suggestions and questions for reflection to enable the application of this philosophy to their own classrooms.
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The Teaching Delusion 3: Power Up Your Pedagogy
Hands up if you’ve ever been given lesson observation feedback that you didn’t understand, didn’t agree with, or just thought was plain rubbish. If your hand is in the air, you’re in good company! When it comes to teachers receiving high-quality feedback that helps them improve their teaching, we have a serious issue in our schools. Teachers want to improve their teaching. They embrace any opportunity to learn. They want other professionals to watch them teach and to get into conversations about developing their practice. What they don’t want is to be criticised, patronised, sent down blind alleys, or left utterly confused. Those who’ve been giving feedback telling teachers to ‘differentiate more’, ‘talk less’, or ‘let students lead their own learning’ have a lot to answer for. The Teaching Delusion 3: Power Up Your Pedagogy has been written to address the issue of teachers receiving poor feedback in our schools. As a self-improvement and coaching resource, it is essential reading for all teachers and school leaders. Through a detailed exploration of 12 key elements of pedagogy, author Bruce Robertson sets out a clear, researched-informed guide to improving pedagogy in every classroom, across every school. By highlighting key features of effective practice and a broad range of techniques teachers can focus on developing, this practical guidebook will be valued by professionals in all sectors, regardless of experience. The Teaching Delusion 3: Power Up Your Pedagogy completes The Teaching Delusion trilogy with a bang!Read more
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How to Teach Computer Science: Parable, practice and pedagogy
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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The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back
Whisper it quietly: a lot of time is being wasted in a lot of schools. Actually, why are we whispering? What we should really be doing is calling this out – loudly! The job of schools is too important for us to be keeping quiet. Schools are in the ‘transforming lives’ business. There is no time to waste! In The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better), Bruce Robertson explored ‘delusions’ that are holding our schools back. In this sequel, The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back, he digs deeper into three areas: curriculum, pedagogy and leadership. In doing so, he tackles the issue of time-wasting head-on. By calling out specific delusions in each area, Robertson suggests strategies for dismantling these and offers a clear roadmap forward. Backed by a depth of research and a breadth of experience, The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back will give teachers and school leaders the supportive shake-up they need, helping them to abandon practices that aren’t making the difference they should be, and to focus on the things that will really make the biggest difference to students in our schools.Read more
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The Revision Revolution: How to build a culture of effective study in your school
Have you ever wondered why your students don’t revise? Or why they revise ineffectively? Often, they simply don’t know how. This is where The Revision Revolution comes in.
What if, instead of just telling students to revise, we taught them explicit study skills from Year 7? What if we made revision enjoyable, even irresistible? The aim is not just to help students pass exams, but to embed their learning and help them grow into knowledgeable and informed young adults.
In this book, Helen Howell and Ross Morrison McGill guide you step by step through how to start and sustain a revision revolution in your school, building a culture of effective study that flows through all aspects of school life.
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A Quiet Education: Challenging the extrovert ideal in our schools
‘A Quiet Education’ serves as an unashamed cheerleader for all that is quiet, challenging the myth that collaboration and noise should be at the heart of what happens in schools. It examines how we can ensure more introverted students and teachers can thrive and achieve their potential. It also explores why it is essential that all teachers begin to embrace quieter values: in their classrooms and management of behaviour; in sustaining their own wellbeing; in their desire to reflect meaningfully and improve as a teacher. The final section is an exploration of quieter skills: how we can strengthen our students’ metacognitive ability; their ability to listen, pay attention and focus; the quality of independent work we do in the classroom alongside how we can motivate all our students.Read more
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Let’s Sign Dictionary: Everyday BSL for Learners [2nd Edition]
The most significant publication of British Sign Language (BSL) vocabulary for 15 years.This brand new extensively revised and updated edition is in paperback, A4 format, with 316 pages.
More than 1,000 new entries bring the total contents to over 2,400 clear line-drawing graphics, making this the most comprehensive, up-to-date print dictionary of modern BSL signs in contemporary use, with an Index of over 6000 words. The book represents excellent value.
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American Sign Language Workbook for Beginners: Mastering the Basics | From Greetings to Navigating Life in ASL
Dive into the eloquent world of American Sign Language (ASL) with this comprehensive workbook for beginners. Crafted for individuals keen to bridge communication barriers, this guide covers fundamental topics ranging from basic alphabets and numbers to emotions, work, travel, and more. Each chapter offers real-life situations coupled with engaging exercises, ensuring an enriching learning experience. Beyond mere signs, readers will immerse in the culture and history of the Deaf community, celebrating its resilience and spirit. Whether connecting with a Deaf friend, expanding professional skills, or quenching linguistic curiosity, this book promises a transformative journey of connection, advocacy, and profound human expression.
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The Practical Guide to Getting Subject Leaders to THRIVE!
The curriculum is the driving force for excellent teaching and learning in any school. Yet, in primary schools, the curriculum is often led by class teachers who have little or no time to give to this vital part of their role. Subject leaders have the potential to rapidly improve the way a curriculum is taught, but the challenges they face can seem insurmountable.
The Practical Guide to Getting Subject Leaders to THRIVE! tackles these issues head-on with a framework rooted in educational research. Sebastian Olway’s six-step THRIVE framework provides school leaders with a structure to support subject leaders and unlock their potential. The framework can also be used to guide an impactful series of professional development meetings, or to offer strategies, tips and resources for individual subject leaders.
Whether you’re a primary school headteacher, a senior leader, an experienced subject leader or brand new to the role, this book will help your school to THRIVE!
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Pride and Progress: Making Schools LGBT+ Inclusive Spaces
Pride & Progress began as a podcast created to amplify the voices of LGBT+ educators and allies. This book builds upon the podcast’s success to create an essential guide for teachers and educators who want to make their educational spaces LGBT+ inclusive.
The book combines academic theory and the lived experiences of our guests to explore ten key themes. Each chapter explores one of these themes, providing the knowledge, language and strategies that schools need to make their educational spaces inclusive for all.Read more
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GCSE Religious Studies for Edexcel B: Religion and Ethics through Christianity
Please note this book is suitable for any student studying:
Exam board: Edexcel
Level: GCSE
Subject: Religious Education
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: June 2018This Student Book has been endorsed by Edexcel.
This textbook offers a brand new approach to the study of Christianity which has been developed in close consultation with teachers and religious organisations. Structured according to the new specification with clear, regular summaries, this book provides students with exactly what they need to know for the course. Practice questions are provided for every topic, as well as sample answer activities and revision checklists. ‘Stretch’ and ‘support’ features provide useful differentiation, and case studies show real-life stories or perspectives from Christianity as it is practised today.Read more
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101 Youth Rugby Drills (101 Drills)
Designed specifically for younger players, 101 Youth Rugby Drills is the practice bible for youth rugby coaches. It contains a range of progressive practice drills to help young players develop. Fun, educational and challenging, all drills are illustrated and cover the essential technical skills required to introduce rugby, including:
– warming up and cooling down
– handling the ball
– running with the ball
– running off the ball
– attacking and defensive patterns.
As well as easy-to-use instructions, each drill contains information on the equipment needed, the space required, how to construct a safe and effective training session and how to organise the players.
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Take Control of the Noisy Class: Chaos to Calm in 15 Seconds (Super-effective classroom management strategies for teachers in today’s toughest classrooms)
Fed up with students who talk over you and ignore instructions?
Drained and worn out by disruption, disobedience, and defiance?
Does the thought of facing some groups fill you with utter dread?
Drawing on 20+ years experience in special education and mainstream settings, teacher-trainer Rob Plevin explains a proven, step-by-step plan for successfully managing the most challenging individuals and groups in today’s toughest classrooms. Packed with powerful, fast-acting techniques – including a novel routine to get any class quiet in 15 seconds or less – this book helps teachers across all age groups connect and succeed with hard-to-reach, reluctant learners.
You’ll discover:
- The simple six-step plan to minimise & deal with classroom behaviour problems
- How to gain trust & respect from tough, hard-to-reach students
- How to put an end to power struggles & confrontation
- How to have students follow your instructions… with no need to repeat yourself
- The crucial importance of consistency (and how to achieve it)
- Quick and easy ways to raise engagement and enjoyment in your lessons
- The ‘Clean Slate’ – a step by step method you can use to ‘start over’ with that particularly difficult group of students who won’t do anything you say.
Take Control of the Noisy Class provides hundreds of practical ideas and interventions to end your classroom management struggles & create a thoroughly enjoyable lesson climate for all concerned.
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Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide
Teaching science is no simple task. Science teachers must wrestle with highly abstract and demanding concepts, ideas which have taken humanity’s greatest minds thousands of years to formulate and refine. Communicating these great and awesome theories involves careful forethought and planning. We need to deliver crystal clear explanations, guide students as they develop their embryonic knowledge and then release them to develop their thinking independently, all the while curating and tending to their long-term understanding as it develops over time. In Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide, Adam breaks down the complex art of teaching science into its component parts, providing a concrete and comprehensive set of evidence-informed steps to nurturing brilliant science students. Adam hopes that you find this book interesting, but his main aim is for you to find it useful. Useful when it comes to sketching out your curriculum, useful when preparing your explanations, useful for mapping out how you will check student understanding and useful for all other aspects of science teaching. This is a truly complete guide, and science teachers of any experience will find it packed with ideas that are new, challenging, interesting and, most importantly, useful.Read more
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Reconnect: Building School Culture for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging
Practical solutions and online training tools to counter the isolation felt by K-12 students in a resource-challenged education system
In Reconnect: Building School Culture for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging, a team of distinguished educators from Teach Like a Champion and Uncommon Schools deliver practical guidance and concrete advice for teachers, administrators, and community members who seek to dramatically improve the lives of children and young people by fostering a sense of belonging in schools. In the book, you’ll find hands-on solutions to build or rebuild students’ sense of shared work and community in an era of increasing isolation and disconnections.
The authors draw on extensive experience with high-performing schools to show you how to build environments that allow young people to thrive and socialize them to become citizens who seek the well-being of those around them. You’ll also get:
- Complimentary access to videos and downloadable assets via https://www.wiley.com/go/reconnect that can be used both within and outside of the classroom
- Actionable strategies for countering the increasing isolation of students that has been aggravated by remote learning
- Useful ways to facilitate positive and beneficial peer-to-peer interactions between students
A can’t-miss resource for K-12 teachers and administrators working in public, private, or charter schools, especially those in underserved communities, Reconnect will also prove a practical guide for parents and community members involved in the education of local children and young people.
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Transform Teaching and Learning through Talk: The Oracy Imperative
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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The Super Quick Guide to Learning Theories and Teaching Approaches
Learning theories and teaching approaches summarised, explained and critiqued for trainee teachers.
This book offers an overview of essential learning theories and teaching approaches in a nutshell. It empowers trainee teachers with the key knowledge to understand how individuals learn and the most effective ways to teach them. Engaging in thought-provoking discussions, readers are encouraged to critically examine theoretical challenges and limitations while discovering the interconnectedness of various theories. The guide also provides direction for further study, ensuring a well-rounded educational foundation for future teachers.
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Lean Lesson Planning: A practical approach to doing less and achieving more in the classroom: 1 (High Impact Teaching)
“A great little book for teachers based on robust evidence.” Carl Hendrick, Head of Learning and Research at Wellington College
This book is for any teacher who’s interested in improving their lesson planning and practice. It has been carefully constructed to be a highly efficient reading experience. It is short, sparse and you should be able to read it in about an hour.
However, it is not about quick fixes. If you’re looking for ways to short-cut the amount of time you spend planning lessons, then this book is not for you. Lean Lesson Planning draws on the best available evidence from educational research and cognitive science to provide a coherent set of mindsets and ‘habits of planning’ that will help you power up the learning experiences and outcomes in your classroom, in ways that make your life easier and more enjoyable. In short, it’s about doing less, but better.
Lean Lesson Planning is the first instalment in the High Impact Teaching series.
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Contents
Act I: Lean foundations
- 1. Defining lean
- 2. Lean mindsets
- 3. Lean habits
Act II: Habits for planning
- 4. Backwards design
- 5. Knowing knowledge
- 6. Checking understanding
- 7. Efficient strategies
- 8. Lasting learning
- 9. Inter-lesson planning
Act III Habits for growing
- 10. Building excellence
- 11. Growth teaching
- 12. Collective improvement
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Praise for Lean Lesson Planning
“Things that make teachers’ lives simpler like this are few and far between.” Doug Lemov, Author of Teach Like a Champion
“Breezy recap of best practices in lesson planning.” Dan Meyer, Chief Academic Officer at Desmos
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Praise for other books in the High Impact Teaching series
“I doubt you’ll find an education book with more useful insights per minute of reading time.” Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at UCL
“I can’t remember when I have ever read a book that takes such complex ideas and communicates them with sophistication and simplicity.” Oliver Caviglioli, Education author & information designer
“A truly excellent book which sets out the science behind learning with remarkable clarity.” Mark Enser, Head of Geography at Heathfield Community College
“All I can say is that it was everything I’d hoped for and more.” Jon Hutchinson, Assistant Head at Reach & Visiting Fellow at Ambition
“Another absolute gem from Peps Mccrea.” Helene Galdin-O’Shea, English teacher & researchED organiser
“Peps packs the punches from the first page.” Kathryn Morgan, Advisor at TDT & ubergeek
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