Education & Teaching

Barbara Kaiser / Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing and Responding Effectively (Coffee Table Book)

Are you a student of education or educator currently in the field seeking answers to challenging behavior in your young students? If your answer is a resounding “Yes!” then you have found your survival guide! Award-winning writers Barbara...

Charles Hulme / Developmental Disorders of Language Learning and Cognition (Coffee Table Book)

This important new text is a comprehensive survey of current thinking and research on a wide range of developmental disorders.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...

Carol Garhart Mooney / Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget, and Vygotsky (Coffee Table Book)

A look at the ideas of five educational theorists in relation to early childhood care. An easy-to-learn overview of the theorist opens each chapter. The author then distills the theorists’ work to reveal how it relates to child care and children...

Deb Curtis / The Art of Awareness: How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching (Coffee Table Book)

Observing children closely provides a new way of thinking about learning and teaching, a way of making children visible as they are, not just as we want them to be. Featuring nine Observation Study Sessions, this book offers ideas, activities, and...

Helen O'Sullivan / Leading and Managing Schools (Coffee Table Book)

School leadership and management are fundamental components of school improvement. This is the first study of its kind to relate the principles of effective leadership to the broad spectrum of school life in Ireland. A key resource for school leaders in...

Ann Gravells / Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (Coffee Table Book)

This is the third revised and updated edition of Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, aimed at people new to teaching who need a good basic introduction to all the key aspects at an appropriate level. It is easy to read, with plenty of...

Janet W. Lerner / Learning Disabilities: Theories, Diagnosis, and Teaching Strategies (Coffee Table Book)

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John MacBeath / Schools Must Speak for Themselves (Coffee Table Book)

This best-selling book illustrates how schools can tell their own story. It draws on ground-breaking work with the National Union of Teachers to demonstrate a practical approach to identifying what makes a good school and the part that pupils, parents...

Cath Smith / Sign Language Companion: A Handbook of British Signs (Coffee Table Book)

An easy-to-follow guide to sign language, providing over 400 illustrations to demonstrate common signs and grouping signs. Sign Language Companion is formatted in groups of linked ideas to allow the development of real conversations immediately.British...

Sue Cowley / Teaching Skills for Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

Being a "good teacher" is a difficult goal to achieve, being largely dependent on a huge variety of skills outside of the main curriculum. Teaching Skills For Dummies focuses on these 'soft' skills of teaching, from maintaining discipline to...

David W. Moore / Starting Out: A Guide to Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle with Reading (Coffee Table Book)

Starting Out presents feasible classroom practices for teaching middle and high school students who struggle as readers and writers. Respected authors, David Moore and Kathleen Hinchman, provide sound advice on how to address the fundamentals of teaching...

Margot Sunderland / Using Story Telling as a Therapeutic Tool with Children (Coffee Table Book)

This practical handbook begins with the philosophy and psychology underpinning the therapeutic value of story telling. It shows how to use story telling as a therapeutic tool with children and how to make an effective response when a child tells a story...

C. Addison Stone / Handbook of Language and Literacy: Development and Disorders (Coffee Table Book)

Much has been learned in recent years about the close connections among language and literacy processes, both typical and atypical. Filling a significant gap in the literature, this comprehensive volume brings together leading authorities in...

Diane M. Barone / Narrowing the Literacy Gap (Large Paperback)

This engaging book offers new insights and information on why students in high-poverty schools struggle with literacy achievement and what specific factors promote success. Findings from a unique study are translated into clear recommendations for...

Peter Jarvis / The Theory and Practice of Teaching (Large Paperback)

An introduction to the techniques, contemporary theories and methods of teaching from facilitating problem-based learning to the role of the lecture, this book explores the issues that underpin interpersonal methods of teaching, and offers genuine...

Hilary A. Radnor / Researching Your Professional Practice (Large Paperback)

Researching Your Professional Practice: Doing Interpretive Research (Doing Qualitative Research in Educational Settings) This volume is for the professional educator who wants to make use of good interpretive research practice to help them do their...

Tamara L. Jetton / Adolescent Literacy Research and Practice (Large Paperback)

This much-needed book addresses the role of literacy instruction in enhancing content area learning and fostering student motivation and success well beyond the primary grades. The unique literacy needs of middle school and secondary students are...

Helen Arnold / Listening to Children Reading (Large Paperback)

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Paul Castle / How to be a Successful Teacher (Large Paperback)

How to be a Successful Teacher: Strategies for Personal and Professional Development   Paul Castle, Scott Buckler   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Peter Levin / Sail Through Exams! - Friendly Guide (Large Paperback)

Student-Friendly Guide: Sail Through Exams!: Preparing for traditional exams, for undergraduates and taught postgraduates This lively, short and to-the-point guide helps students prepare for exams with two to three hours to answer questions they have not...

Brian Boyd / CPD (Large Paperback)

The Continuing Professional Development series sets out to demystify professional development in education, and does so from a Scottish perspective. All books in the series approach their subject in an accessible manner that allows teachers and...

Gilly Salmon / How to Create Podcasts for Education (Large Paperback)

Gilly Salmon, Palitha Edirisingha, Matthew Mobbs, Richard Mobbs, Chris Dennett  "Few other technological developments have the same potential for transforming teaching and learning as podcasts … This step by step...

Paul Black / Assessment For Learning (Large Paperback)

Assessment For Learning: Putting it into Practice   Paul Black, Chris Harrison, Clare Lee, Bethan Marshall, Dylan Wiliam, Open University Press    "This is a surprising and welcome book... a...

Michael Pressley / Reading Instruction That Works (Large Paperback)

This widely adopted text provides a comprehensive guide to effective literacy instruction in the elementary grades. Distinguished scholar and educator Michael Pressley presents research-based, classroom-tested best practices for combining skills-based...

Alastair Irons / Enhancing Learning through Formative Assessment and Feedback (Large Paperback)

This book is based on the argument that detailed and developmental formative feedback is the single most useful thing teachers can do for students. It helps to clarify the expectations of higher education and assist all students to achieve their...

Jen Allen / Helping Your Pupils to be Resilient (Large Paperback)

Jen Allen, Michele Murray, Kelli Simmons For many children, school life is hard. They may have a learning difficulty or problems at home. They may feel left out or have trouble making friends. Other children may be stealing from them or...

Jonathan Weyers, Kathleen McMillan / How to Write Essays & Assignments (Large Paperback)

How to write great essays covers everything a student is likely to need to research, plan and write academic essays and assignments that will get you great marks.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Peter Levin / Perfect Presentations! (Large Paperback)

Peter Levin, Graham Topping 'Perfect Presentations!' helps students gain the skills they need to give an effective presentation in a class, seminar, or tutorial. The book discusses the importance of knowing your topic area well, structuring your...

Susan Hart / Learning Without Limits (Large Paperback)

"The style and language used by the authors make the book readable and therefore a book that practising teachers can actively use as a guide to improve their practice ...it is amply demonstrated that teaching can and should be an activity whose...

Janet Soler / Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development (Large Paperback)

Janet Soler (Primary Contributor), Gavin Reid (Editor), Janice Wearmouth (Editor) This book provides a range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives on difficulties in literacy development. The high-profile team...

Michael Fullan / Leadership & Sustainability (Large Paperback)

Fullan provides a comprehensive examination of what leaders at all levels of the educational system can do to promote large-scale, sustainable reform.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

James A. Rycik / What Adolescents Deserve (Large Paperback)

What Adolescents Deserve: A Commitment to Students' Literacy Learning   James A. Rycik (Editor), Judith L. Irvin What do adolescents deserve? According to editors James A. Rycik and Judith L. Irvin, adolescents deserve...

Karen D. Wood/ Literacy Instruction for Adolescents (Large Paperback)

Literacy Instruction for Adolescents: Research-Based Practice   Karen D. Wood (Editor), William E. Blanton (Editor Thorough and accessible, this professional resource and text shows how the latest research in adolescent...

John Walshe / A New Partnership in Education (Large Paperback)

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R. Barrass / Students Must Write (Large Paperback)

The third edition of this well-respected guide will help students of all subjects to write more clearly and more effectively, with valuable advice on how Written by an esteemed author with many years of experience of helping students improve key...

Ted Glynn / Supporting Students with Literacy Difficulties (Large Paperback)

Supporting Students with Literacy Difficulties Ted Glynn, Janice Wearmouth, Mere Berryman The authors illustrate the way in which teachers and other adults can create responsive social contexts at school and at home to enable all children...

Richard Williams , Colin Pritchard / Breaking the Cycle of Educational Alienation (Large Paperback)

'Breaking The Cycle of Educational Alienation' shows how a family-teacher-community alliance can be effectively developed, with measured improvements, not only in child & family functioning, but also in school attendance & educational success...

Jere Brophy / Motivating Students To Learn (Large Paperback)

Written specifically for teachers, this book offers a wealth of research-based principles for motivating students to learn within the realities of a classroom learning community. Its focus on motivational principles rather than motivational theorists...

Mary E. Curtis / When Adolescents Can't Read (Large Paperback)

The reading field expects that the reading of children who lag behind during the first few grades can significantly improve with good instruction. Similar confidence in treating the reading difficulties of adolescents has not been common. The general...

Delwyn P. Tattum, David A. Lane / Bullying in Schools (Large Paperback)

Book by Tattum, Delwyn, Lane, David A.   120 pages, Paperback First published September 1, 1989   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the...

Conrad Wolfram / The Math(s) Fix (Large Paperback)

An Education Blueprint for the AI Age Why are we all taught maths for years of our lives? Does it really empower everyone? Or fail most and disenfranchise many? Is it crucial for the AI age or an obsolete rite of passage?The Math(s) Fix: An Education...

James D. Lester , James D. Lester Jr. / Writing Research Papers (Large Paperback)

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Richard Hickman (Editor) / Art Education 11-18 (Large Paperback)

This volume seeks to build a bridge between theoretical and practical issues in art education. The theoretical areas consider such big questions as: why teach art?; and how does art relate to other subjects? The practical areas draw out the...

Parker J. Palmer / The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal (Large Paperback)

The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection & Renewal is a helpful companion to Parker J. Palmer's classic work on restoring identity and integrity to professional life. A superb resource for those who wish to extend their exploration of the ideas...

Lesley Britton / Montessori Play and Learn (Coffee Table Book)

We all want the best possible start in life for our children, and one of the best possible starts in life, educationally, is the 'method' pioneered by Maria Montessori and taught successfully today throughout the world, especially at preschool level...

Sönke Ahrens / How to Take Smart Notes (Large Paperback)

The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and notes. This book helps students, academics and nonfiction writers to get more done, write intelligent texts and learn for the long run. It teaches you how to take...

Bill A. Rogers / Cracking the Hard Class - 2nd Edition (Coffee Table Book)

`In Cracking the Hard Class , the undisputed master of behaviour management, Bill Rogers, shows us that being an effective teacher isn′t a result of God-given gifts of charisma and presence, but can be developed through a series of specific...

Helen Cowie / New Perspectives on Bullying (Coffee Table Book)

This book provides a useful round-up of studies that help the reader understand what constitutes bullying (a much-debated point), the characteristics of bullies and children who are targeted, patterns of behaviour and common outcomes for the children...

Michelle Anthony, Reyna Lindert / Little Girls Can Be Mean (Large Paperback)

Worried about mean girls? Help your daughter respond and react to bullying where it starts---in elementary ( primary) school. As experts in developmental psychology and each a mother of three, Dr. Michelle Anthony and Dr. Reyna Lindert began...

Kevin Robins, Frank Webster / The Virtual University? (Large Paperback)

The Virtual University brings together some of the best-known writers on contemporary social change to reflect on the radical transformations going on in higher education.Expansion, technology, and changing financial and performance structures have...

Martin E.P. Seligman / The Optimistic Child (Hardback)

In the face of increasing levels of depression affecting American children, the author of the best-selling Learned Optimism teaches parents and educators how to instill optimism, resilience, and confidence in their youngsters.    This book is...

Joachim Liebschner / A Child's Work -Freedom and Guidance in Froebel's Educational Theory and Practice (Large Paperback)

Focusing on the life and ideas of pioneering educationalist Friedrich Froebel, this book discusses the continuing debate over methods of primary education.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...