Written under the guidance and with the support of Dylan Wiliam, Kate Jones writes about five formative assessment strategies in action in the classroom. Building on the highly successful work of Wiliam and Siobhan Leahy, ideas are shared and misconceptions with formative assessment are addressed with lots of practical advice.
Creating Positive Classrooms is the definitive guide for classroom teachers in all matters behaviour, culture and ethos. This book explains how to craft the social norm in your classroom with 50 approaches to creating a positive classroom environment.
In his remarkable new book, Craig Barton explains how he has delved into the world of academic research and emerged with a range of simple and effective strategies that any maths teacher can employ to save time and energy and have a positive impact on long-term learning.
In Learning To Lead Computing, Karl McGrath and Allen Tsui provide an essential, jargon-free guide for educators tasked with leading computing at their school. Drawing from over a decade of experience in education, the authors deliver practical advice and strategies to engage and inspire both colleagues and empower them as leaders. This ......
The A-Z of Early Career Teaching is a one-stop shop for those in the early stages of their teaching career, organised around the 26 letters of the English alphabet. 'So look up from the individual trees and see the whole wood. Because in teaching, today is always yesterday before you know it, and on balance that's a good thing - there's no time ......
American psychologist and psychiatrist David Ausubel is well known for his famous quote:
"The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly" (Ausubel, 1968, vi).
As an experienced teacher and sports coach, Debs Butler explores research and thinking on approaches within secondary Physical Education teaching while maintaining a focus on application to motivate and inspire a love for sports. With a vision of what experiencing PE should be for a student, this book covers a breadth of topics including planning ......
In the latest book in John Catt's In Action series, Emma Turner, David Goodwin and Oliver Caviglioli use Annie Murphy Paul's The Extended Mind to demonstrate how teachers can help their students augment their thinking with their bodies (embodied cognition), external tools (situated cognition) and the people around them (distributed cognition).
