Designed for practitioners who are responsible for young children's education and welfare in educational settings, this second edition of "Planning for Early Learning" covers social and political changes such as: increased demand for day care for babies and children under three; the introduction of nursery vouchers and increased early admission to infant school; Desirable Outcomes for four-year-olds supporting the National Curriculum for five to seven year-olds; and baseline assessment at five. This text explains how practitioners can structure and organize their thinking about early education and curriculum, so that they can support and extend children's learning and development. It also shows how practitioners can judge the effectiveness of their educational provision and learn more about the education of young children.
Managing Effective Learning and Teaching presents the theory underlying management of teaching and learning, as well as discussion of good practice in schools and colleges. Ann Briggs and Daniela Sommefeldt discuss the rationale for learning and teaching though a consideration of curriculum design. This is linked to models of learning and ......
A recent report from the United States Surgeon General shows that some school-based tobacco use prevention programmes have proved successful in discouraging first use of tobacco among children. Dissemination of these programmes, however, has been minimal. Taking a health researcher's perspective, the authors of this volume discuss the history, status and needs of school-based tobacco use prevention/cessation research. Issues addressed include how to implement such programmes and the major theoretical and methodological issues involved. Details of the Project Toward No Tobacco Use (TNT) are also covered.
Managing the Curriculum explores many of the new aspects of the core business of schools and colleges, i.e. the curriculum. Keeping the focus clearly on learning and teaching, David Middlewood and Neil Burton explore the practical issues for managers at institutional level, within the context of their need to understand and analyze key educational ......
Curriculum and subject leadership in schools has recently gained substantial attention from both researchers and policy-makers. The Teacher Training Agency (TTA) has reinforced the importance of subject leadership in school improvement, proposing a new measure of such leadership competence through the creation of national subject leader standards ......
Catholic colleges and universities have achieved a prestigious place in American higher education, but at the risk of losing their religious identity. This book confronts challenges facing members of the college community, from presidents and trustees through the faculty and deans to professionals, in making a renewed commitment to that mission.
The authors have updated this easy-to-read book on the issue of portfolio implementation within current teaching practices as alternative methods of evaluating a student's work.
This is the preschool and kindergarten teacher's guide to an innovative curriculum for creating a literacy-rich environment for children of all ability levels.
