Read the real-life adventures of Wildlife Wong. Find out what happens when an elephant sits on his car, or when elephants take selfies with his camera traps. Then can you build your very own camera?
A definitive guide to routines-based intervention where the author gives professionals a detailed framework for early intervention that addresses families' individual needs and helps children participate in daily routines. With the step-by-step guidance o
Many primary school teachers find science a difficult subject to teach. Not only do teachers need to develop their own knowledge of a complex subject, they also need to know how to bring this subject to life in the primary classroom. Science Fix is here to help! In this practical book, author Danny Nicholson: *Guides you through all areas of the primary science curriculum. *Outlines the subject knowledge you need for each area, enabling you to teach with confidence. *Includes practical advice for teaching and guidance on how to plan and deliver sequences of engaging science lessons. *Outlines activities for teaching that promote scientific thinking and help children to work as scientists. *Identifies common misconceptions, allowing you to anticipate them in planning. *Asks what working scientifically is and, importantly, what it is not.
Through a set of in-depth case studies, This Much I Know About Truly Great Primary Teachers (and what we can learn from them) by John Tomsett dissects the complex and beautiful art of classroom teaching.
Covering a range of school types, social contexts, pupil ages and subjects, it ......
Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching in Elementary Classrooms
Help students see their whole selves in the math they're learning with culturally responsive teaching. Cultivating Mathematical Hearts: Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching in Elementary Classrooms, aims to re-center mathematics as a humanizing endeavor because putting children and their humanity at the heart of mathematics education can result in more engaged, meaningful, and joyful learning. This book introduces a model and a tool for Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching, constructed to create a safe, inclusive space where all learners can come together in their own educational journey and develop a love for math that centers their experiences and comes from the heart. Implementing the Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching Tool (CRMT2) will help you cultivate and sustain meaningful, rich, and rigorous mathematical learning spaces for all your students-experiences that foster mathematical curiosity and joy. The book walks you through each aspect of the framework and tool, guiding you to consider how your classroom structures, lessons, tasks, and assessments: Honor the existing cultural strengths, experiences, and lived realities of all your students Elicit diverse mathematical thinking and ideas Support equitable access to rigorous mathematical learning and discourse for all students Invite a sense of agency in each student's learning experience Promote high engagement and excitement while learning mathematics Nurture an understanding that mathematics is a powerful tool for making sense of the world By weaving these strategies into classroom lessons, teachers can humanize mathematics instruction to successfully build a love for math while providing equitable learning opportunities that empower student voice and promote success in mathematics.
Feedback for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom shows how to plan, enact, and reflect on feedback practices within lessons and across units using a new accessible, comprehensive, and innovative framework.
Learn how to think like an expert primary teacher and how to plan great lessons. This book explores the knowledge, skills and evidence base that expert teachers use to plan lessons in primary schools. It combines practical principles with robust ideas from theory to offer a flexible approach to fit any school's preferred lesson planning format. Key features: Chapters are supported by examples from across the curriculum Deep insight into how expert teachers construct and teach their own lessons Carefully aligned to the National Curriculum in England, the initial teacher education Core Content Framework (CCF), the Early Career Framework (ECF) and the Teachers' Standards. This is essential reading for student teachers on primary initial teacher education courses, via any route (PGCE, BA w/QTS, School Direct, SCITT and Teach First).
Your Teacher Toolkit for Better Teaching and Learning Every educator needs a toolkit of strategies to ensure that students of different abilities, backgrounds, and learning profiles achieve success in the classroom. Rather than requiring busy educators to read copious amounts of research and theory first, Practical Strategies for Managing a Diverse Classroom flips the script, providing the answers and tools you need up-front so you can implement them immediately. Inside, you'll find: Powerful vignettes and common scenarios found in any inclusive classroom Concrete strategies for each classroom scenario Research and evidence for each strategy, explaining how and why it works An exploration of cutting-edge topics such as co-teaching, cooperative learning, applied behavior analysis, SEL, and more Additional resources, applications, and activities for book studies or for educators who want to go deeper into the topics that appeal to them the most Written by a team of experienced educators with varied backgrounds, Practical Strategies for Managing a Diverse Classroom offers practical strategies for effective teaching and learning, better classroom management, and strengthened student engagement.
A guide for trainee and beginning teachers on Adaptive Teaching. This book explores what we mean by 'Adaptive Teaching' and considers this in the current context of schools and teaching in the UK. It includes key theory to support trainee teachers' foundation knowledge. Importantly, the text focuses on practical support for classroom teaching and includes suggested approaches and examples of good practice to learn from and adapt. 'How to' guidance supporting trainees on placements and in their first years of teaching.
