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 ......
For more than a decade, the widely used Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children has been helping early educators use research-based practices to boost social-emotional development. Now theres a practical guide that makes it easier than ever to implement.
Games to Play & Sing with Children aged 3 to 7 144 Counting, Finger, Beanbag, Circle, Clapping, Skipping, Water,
Waldorf Games Handbook for the Early Years - Games to Play and Sing with Children aged 3 to 7 offers a handy guide to playing games with young children.
The beginnings of all things are small, but the possibilities for our primary pupils are infinite. Many books explore the wonders of science and education research but few are rooted in the reality of the primary classroom, what it is really like to run a primary classroom, and to spend each day in the fascinating company of our youngest ......
At thirteen, Cassandra Romanelli thought she was wise beyond her years. Yet, life had been too easy. After being abused, she struggles to fit in with her friends and has to overcome bullying from her classmates. Her self-esteem plunges...
Huh is the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity, fertility and regeneration. He is the deity Mary Myatt and John Tomsett have adopted as their god of the curriculum. Their Huh series of books focuses on how practitioners design the curriculum for the young people in their schools.
A guide for premises staff, business managers, headteachers & governors
A handbook to inform school premises staff, business managers, headteachers and governors in England of their legal responsibilities around buildings compliance.
Mind Mechanics provides activities, worksheets and lesson plans to empower children with the skills they need to manage their mental health throughout life. It can be used flexibly as a full programme or as a toolbox of activities to use as and when needed and is suitable for group or 1:1 work.
Curriculum Exposed is a pacy, punchy and forthright critique of how to drive the curriculum within a school and how the curriculum should be used as a vehicle for change and social justice.
ELLCO was developed to measure classroom environments and their effects on early literacy and language development in pre-K through third grade. This work provides information on how to use and interpret the results, including guidelines for conducting classroom observations, limiting bias in scoring, scoring guidance, and providing feedback.
l Guide to Ethnicity, Religion, Culture and Language
Supporting professionals to promote diversity and inclusion in early years settings, this book promotes awareness and understanding of the needs of children and families from diverse backgrounds, and provides the steps that practitioners can take to enhance their learning and help them reach their full potential.
What would a school look like if it was designed with mental health in mind? Too many public schools look and feel like prisons, designed out of fear of vandalism and truancy. But we know that nurturing environments are better for learning.
Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes Tool: Pack of 25 Forms
Where are parents skills the strongest-and how can they be encouraged to better support young childrens cognitive, social, and language development? Home visitors can find out in minutes with PICCOLO (TM), the quick, reliable observational tool designed to assess and monitor the quality of parent-child interactions
Streamlined and enhanced with user‐requested updates, the new AEPS®‐3 gives your early childhood program the most accurate, useful child data and a proven way to turn data into action across everything you do, from goal setting to teaching to progress monitoring. This Complete Kit contains everything you need to implement AEPS‐3.
In this follow-up to his best-selling book The Learning Rainforest, Tom Sherrington explores how these ideas take shape in the real world of education, referencing the journeys that a range of schools and colleges have been on in recent years.
Happiness Factories explores the ideas, concepts and arguments behind an expanded focus in physical education beyond just the physical. It attempts to discuss the value and benefits of identifying other aspects - whether we call these 'holistic strands', 'character traits', 'life skills' or something else - that we can introduce into our ......
A criterion‐referenced, curriculum‐based measure, the AEPS®‐3 Test evaluates the developmental and early academic skills that children need to function independently and succeed in kindergarten.
"Why do they have to keep on changing things?" It's a characteristic complaint from teachers and leaders in all parts of the UK, but especially in England. Our political system means we are locked into short-term cycles. Politicians come and politicians go. In education departments it means there is a revolving door of ministers, each often ......
What is the cocktail of successful schools and their leaders? They are restless. There is a paradox at their core: they are very secure in their systems, values and successes, yet simultaneously seeking to change and improve. These schools look inwards to secure wise development; they look outwards to seize innovation which they can hew to their ......
This book looks at the sensible and meaningful role of self-review in creating sustainable improvement in all areas across secondary schools. It outlines a self-review approach focussed on key principles which ensure this approach is transparent, purposeful, does not negatively impact on workload, that does not use the same approach for all teams ......
For use after the AEPS®‐3 Test, the AEPS®‐3 Curriculum is an activity‐based, multitiered curriculum that helps professionals support every childs development with differentiated instruction in eight developmental areas: fine motor, gross motor, adaptive, social‐emotional, social‐communication, cognitive, literacy, and math.
For use after the AEPS®‐3 Test, the AEPS®‐3 Curriculum is an activity‐based, multitiered curriculum that helps professionals support every childs development with differentiated instruction in eight developmental areas: fine motor, gross motor, adaptive, social‐emotional, social‐communication, cognitive, literacy, and math.
Research-Based Lists and Strategies for Key Content Areas
Teach middle school students the academic vocabulary words they need to know to master the content in their textbooks. This book gives educators five extensive, research-based lists of vocabulary words frequently used in textbooks, plus guidance and activities to help them teach the words. Vocabulary knowledge plays a huge role in the academic ......
As attitudes to mental health shift, schools are taking the wellbeing of their pupils much more seriously. All schools in England are required to provide lessons on health and wellbeing; in addition, most now have a mental health leadership role.
