Michael Chiles and David Goodwin team up to present a comprehensive guide for all new teachers as they begin their journey, summarising a range of essential techniques. This book will be a key resource for all practitioners training to teach across subjects and phases.
A strikingly honest anthology of autistic teachers sharing the challenges and successes of their careers. With topics including identity, inclusion, intersectionality and more, it highlights the strengths of employing a neurodiverse workforce and the ways the needs of autistic teachers can be accommodated.
John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley's brilliant manifesto is a revolution in how schools treat their staff. They argue that by putting staff first schools are providing for students the one thing which will help them make good progress in their learning: truly great teaching.
Using Supervision to Support Pupil and Staff Wellbeing
A straightforward guide to implementing supervision in primary and secondary schools, written by a senior education counsellor. It will help you become a supportive supervisor , advocate for the importance of supervision in schools, manage one-on-one and group supervision, and provide example content for your sessions.
Responding to a challenge posed by state and independent schools, Ian and Hilary Wigston launched a unique mentoring programme to transform women's leadership in education. This programme, explored in the 2021 book The Magic in the Space Between, achieved huge success in the UK and led to similar initiatives in North America, Australasia and ......
A practical guide to mindfulness that will empower teachers and school staff to take better care of their well-being and find calm in the day-to-day hustle and bustle of the school setting.
Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, draws on her years of expertise and access to decision-makers to expose the gap between ministerial rhetoric and the daily reality encountered by teachers, and outlines a set of proposals to move beyond the seemingly perennial crisis in teacher recruitment and retention.
How a unique mentoring programme is transforming women's leadership
Responding to a challenge posed by independent and state school leaders, Ian Wigston put together a team of experienced leaders from business, the public sector and the military to enable nearly a hundred women to explore their potential for school leadership.
Pretended is a vivid historical, political and cultural account of schools and teaching under Section 28, a law that banned schools in the UK from promoting homosexuality as a 'pretended family relationship'. Catherine Lee was a teacher in schools for each of the 15 years that Section 28 was law (between 1988 and 2003). In Pretended, she ......
How to improve the image of teaching and why it matters
In the eyes of many, teaching is not truly a profession akin to other professions. Must do better examines the origins of our problem with teaching, it shines a light on the exciting reality of teaching in the 21st century, and it charts a new course for the image of the modern teaching profession.
If you're in education, then you know that while there are many positives to the profession, it is also facing many challenges. From planning, to assessments, to internal and external invigilation, our work/life balance is being tipped in the wrong direction, and it can be hard to prioritise ourselves on the 'to do' list. In this context ......
Dr Helen Woodley's critical action research in a growing field of education is an investigation into the effect of working on a toxic schools on teacher mental health and wellbeing. Ross Morrison McGill adds accessible conclusions to each chapter.
Tanya Ovenden-Hope (Editor) brings together insights from those most closely connected to the ECF; the training providers, school leaders and academics involved in understanding the efficacy of professional development and learning in schools.
An Ethnographic Case Study of Samoa's Talavou Clan
This book focuses on Native and indigenous leadership as a lived experience and as seen, felt, and heard from the perspectives provided by Native Pacific Islanders, Polynesians, and more specifically Samoans from the Talavou Clan.
This book examines the critical role that teachers play in supporting at-risk student populations to stay in school and successfully complete their graduation requirements. Thompson addresses how high schools may support marginal students in achieving success by the implementa...
Best-selling author and qualified early years teacher Sue Cowley looks at the way that behavior develops during the earliest years of a child's life, exploring how babies and young children learn behaviors and move from co-regulation to self-regulation. Learning Behaviors gives practical advice about how to support children in learning all ......
