Evidence-informed summaries for busy educational professionals
Ask any teacher and they would say workload is one of the biggest blockers to their professional development. Simply put, most teachers are time-poor and too busy to engage with educational research to improve their classroom instruction. One-pagers are ultra-concise, A4-sized summaries that share important ideas about good teaching. In this ......
Early language deficits affect too many pupils on entry to nursery, reception and school settings, negatively impacting not only children's engagement with curriculum content, but also their self-regulation and mental health. Drawing on Joan Tough's research and inspiration, Alex Bedford has reignited and reimagined her systematic language ......
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Activities for 11-19 year olds
Essential guidance for adults teaching groups of teens about relationships & sex, this updated resource offers interactive activities/lesson plans that aid discussion around online pornography & its impact on healthy relationships & body image. Plus downloadable theory on RSE in faith schools/special schools and template forms.
Teaching is not a job, its a passion. Caring and compassionate educators will stop at nothing to be sure their students have everything they need to flourish. As teaching demands increase, the attention teachers give to their own needs is often sacrificed. The pressures of teaching are forcing educators to choose between what they love to do...
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. Schools seeking to develop distributive leadership can find that many barriers arise for middle leaders. Subject leaders ......
Reimagining Career Education to Prepare Kids for Tomorrow's World
Crisis-Proofing Today's Learners: Reimagining Career Education to Prepare Kids for Tomorrow's World offers insights into the types of skills young people need to be successful in today's workforce and prepare them for careers that we might not even have imagined in 2023.
How the Principles of Stoicism Can Help a Return to Normality or Better
This book applies the various principles of Stoicism, as explicated by these founders, practitioners, and evangelists, to the realities of modern life, particularly as lived by educators-teachers, principals, para-educators, and all of the others who toil in schools-post Covid.
The distinctive element of this book is that it offers ways to model for students some procedures for the reading of narratives and to design learning experiences that will allow learners to discover "rules" for reading complex works of literature.
101 ways to save time, cut your workload and enhance your creativity
A comprehensive guide that presents 101 innovative ways to effectively integrate artificial intelligence into primary education, enhancing learning experiences and streamlining administrative tasks for teachers.
Mathematics is not a universally popular subject, neither within nor outside of school. There are those who love it but many do not, and it is not uncommon for people to take a perverse pride in being bad at it. This book argues that, while much needed improvements to mathematics teaching are necessary to address such issues, they are ......
The Little Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published is a practical step-by-step guide for the novice or uncertain author on how to get published.
