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Improving Learning eBook Series

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  • Improving Learning How to Learn

    Classrooms, Schools and Networks

    by Mary James, Robert McCormick, Paul Black, Patrick Carmichael, Mary-Jane Drummond, Alison Fox, John MacBeath, Bethan Marshall, David Pedder, Richard Procter, Sue Swaffield, Joanna Swann, Dylan Wiliam ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils how to learn.This book makes a major contribution to the creation of such a professional knowledge base for teachers by building on previous work associated with ‘formative assessment’ or ... Read more

    $82.53 CAD

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  • Groupwork Practice in Social Work

    by Sue Orton, Trevor Lindsay ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    The social work degree requires that students clearly demonstrate competence in working with groups. Many social work students will begin working with families, communities and organisations before they qualify and are regularly assessed on this groupwork practice through assignments and observation. Specialist skills are needed to cope in challenging groups and the authors look at how students ... Read more

    $61.91 CAD

  • Reflective Practice For Teaching In Lifelong Learning

    by Ian Rushton, Martin Suter ...
    This book makes the case for reflective practice in post-compulsory teaching, showing how reflective practice might support teachers, as well as being compulsory. ... Read more

    $33.65 CAD

  • Reconceptualising Feedback in Higher Education

    Developing dialogue with students

    Edited by Stephen Merry, Margaret Price, David Carless, Maddalena Taras ...
    Feedback is a crucial element of teaching, learning and assessment. There is, however, substantial evidence that staff and students are dissatisfied with it, and there is growing impetus for change.Student Surveys have indicated that feedback is one of the most problematic aspects of the student experience, and so particularly in need of further scrutiny. Current practices waste both student ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • Learning and Teaching

    The Essential Guide for Higher Level Teaching Assistants

    by Anne Watkinson ...
    Learning and Teaching concentrates on the practical teaching skills that an HLTA needs to be able to use in the classroom. It offers guidance and support on fulfilling the standards and succeeding in the classroom role.This book includes:real-life case studies that put the theory behind the standards into a whole-school contextpractical activities that convey how the standards can be used in the ... Read more

    $55.43 CAD

  • Becoming An Early Years Teacher: From Birth To Five Years

    by Jessica Johnson ...
    Offers key knowledge on theories of early learning and child development to support trainees in developing their role and skills as Early Years Teachers. ... Read more

    $41.66 CAD

  • Early Childhood

    A Guide for Students

    Edited by Tina Bruce ...
    Designed for students on Early Years Foundation Degrees and Early Childhood courses, Early Years professionals and Teaching Assistants, this engaging text provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of early childhood.Written and edited by experts in the field, the book clearly explains theory through illustrations of good practice, with case studies, reflective exercises and suggestions ... Read more

    $77.75 CAD

  • Educating the Gifted and Talented

    Resource Issues and Processes for Teachers

    by Catherine Clark, Ralph Callow ...
    Following the publication of the House of Commons Education Select Committee Report in 1999, the Department of Education and Employment has set up a number of initiatives, including Excellence in Cities, to address the problematic issues relating to provision for gifted and talented pupils in primary and secondary schools.This book rehearses and develops further the central idea put forward by the ... Read more

    $68.98 CAD

  • Interprofessional Working In Practice: Learning And Working Together For Children And Families

    by Lyn Trodd, Leo Chivers ...
    Interprofessional working is integral to an integrated workforce supporting children. This book turns interprofessional rhetoric into reality. ... Read more

    $38.96 CAD

  • Improving Student Engagement and Development through Assessment

    Theory and practice in higher education

    Edited by Lynn Clouder, Christine Broughan, Steve Jewell, Graham Steventon ...
    With a unique focus on the relationship between assessment and engagement this book explores what works in terms of keeping students on course to succeed.Against a backdrop of massification and the associated increase in student diversity there is an escalating requirement for personalized, technology driven learning in higher education. In addition, the advent of student fees has promoted a ... Read more

    $72.68 CAD

  • The Special Needs Coordinator as Teacher and Manager

    A Guide for Practitioners and Trainers

    by Frances Jones, Kevin Jones, Christine Szwed ...
    This text reflects the shift in the SENCO's role from SEN teacher to manager. Written within the context of the most recent government initiatives, it can be used by both special-needs coordinators and by special-educational-needs trainers and advisory staff. In two parts, it explores the range of skills required for the role of special needs coordinator and offers information and advice to ... Read more

    $43.11 CAD

  • Enhancing Teaching Practice in Higher Education

    Edited by Helen Pokorny, Digby Warren ...
    This book explores ways in which pedagogical research, theory, models and frameworks can be used pragmatically to enhance teaching practice in higher education. It provides practical strategies, ideas, techniques and approaches drawn from literature and real-life experience, using examples from a variety of disciplines.Cross-cutting themes include developing resilience and care for ourselves, our ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD