Practical strategies for working smarter, not harder
Paints a vivid picture of life in a primary school classroom and shares top tips on how to enrich young pupils' learning at no extra cost to teachers' time or the school budget.
Fronted adverbials? Relative clauses? Perfect tenses? Subjunctive form? How can teachers teach all the grammar and punctuation requirements in the primary National Curriculum in a way that pupils want to learn about them? This book provides clear explanations, structured introductory teaching sequences and practical consolidation activities that cover all KS2 statutory requirements and makes learning memorable.
How can teachers harness the power of STEM education and learning in the primary curriculum? This book gives practical STEM ideas for the classroom and supports teachers to make the most of opportunities for rich STEM experiences across the primary curriculum. This book: Explores the nature of STEM education and why it matters Highlights the opportunities for STEM learning across the curriculum Supports teachers to design and innovate engaging STEM learning experiences Includes a chapter on STEM in the early years.
Engaging Multilingual Students in Content Area Learning
Rethink how academic languaging can transform content area teaching For years, the teaching of content-based academic language to multilingual learners has focused on formulas, vocabulary lists, and sentence patterns-often sidelining students' linguistic and cultural strengths. Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margo Gottlieb address these challenges by ......
Now in a revised and updated second edition for today's changing K-12 landscape, this book gives instructional coaches an innovative framework for building strong relationships and enacting positive change in schools. Emphasizing a systems approach, Rita M. Bean and Jacy Ippolito explain the multiple roles of the coach as change agent, ......
A Research-Based Guide to Scaffolding Learning in Grades 6-12
Filling a crucial need, this book provides concrete ways to support all students in grades 6-12 as they engage with rigorous grade-level texts in English language arts, science, and social studies. The authors offer fresh insights into adolescent reading and what makes a given text "tough"--including knowledge demands, text structure and ......
Selecting and Using Children's Literature for Inquiry and Engagement
From the authors of the popular blog and resource for teachers, The Classroom Bookshelf, this book offers a framework and teaching ideas for using recently released children's and young adult literature to build a culture of inquiry and engagement from a text-first approach. Reading With Purpose is designed to help K-8 teachers tap into their ......
Developmental Movement, Drawing, and Painting in Waldorf Education
A compelling book for teachers that argues that a focus on posture, special orientation and coordination is as important to healthy child development as academic content.
An Educator's Guide to Using Dyadic Developmental Practice
Experienced clinicians show how educators can easily use a proven psychological model to help pupils who have experienced relational trauma. Contains everything required to embed it into teaching practice, including building connections with students and teachers, exploration of the theory, and practical applications.
