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This revised edition of the bestseller offers two new chapters on caring leadership, real-world examples of what leaders encounter daily, and expanded reflective exercises in each chapter.

Offers updated references, a new section on the Internet, and information on plagiarism. Covers the entire writing process: preparation, selecting topics, collecting information, interpreting results, and final presentation.

Offers classroom layout suggestions for optimal learning, procedures that promote positive behavior, guidelines for designing curriculum and instruction, methods for effective assessment, and much more.

Synthesizes the practical elements of pedagogy, social studies standards and best practices, and advice from social studies teachers to provide beginning teachers with advice to help them through their first few years of teaching. This book provides tips and lists, sample forms and letters, and more.

Shows you how your setting can achieve the Every Child Matters (ECM) Standards. This book provides advice and guidance on: applying the ECM standards to mainstream primary and secondary schools, special schools, Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) and Children's Centres; undertaking the ECM Standards audit; monitoring and evaluating progress; and, more.

Explains the sweeping changes to twentieth-century regimes of manners and self. Broad in scope and deep in analytic reach, this book provides a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how changes in the code of manners and emotions in four countries (Germany, Netherlands, England and the US) have undergone increasing informalization.

Focusing on active ways to help children 5-14 years old improve their thinking and learning skills in science, this resource provides strategies for teaching creative, brain-friendly lessons.

Analyses the shape of the news industry - a world of rolling news and multimedia platforms, and a world where broadcast news is considered another element of show business. This title includes critiques of existing theories, and study of the newspaper, radio, television and internet news channels.

This resource demonstrates how to support young children's language development, including those with special needs, and discusses appropriate expectations for youngsters from birth to age five.

Provides teachers with specific guidelines to establish an optimal learning environment for teenagers and offers case studies that illustrate how to translate theory into workable classroom practice.

This resource offers strategies for cultivating successful relationships with parents to ensure strong support for children with special needs. Includes a CD-ROM with checklists and reproducibles.

This sociological study examines small learning communities and small schools in two major urban cities and highlights the relationship between school culture, personalization, and student engagement.

Provides an in-depth examination of the causes and symptoms of degeneration and a two-part model for preventing educational collapse and crafting an effective turnaround.

This book is written in a style that is compassionate, empathic and easy to access by the lay reader. Brenda Mallon draws from her wealth of experience to show trainees and practitioners how to bring counselling skills into their work when dealing with adults suffering from loss, grief and bereavement.

A guide for professionals who use groups to help people. It provides exercises for use in practice; guidance on evaluating the outcomes of group work; and, models for group supervision. It shows practitioners how to create group culture and how to maintain this culture in spite of the challenges, tensions and difficulties that arise within groups.

This resource shows how an understanding of personality types and adults' individual leadership styles helps build school teams that can collaborate and distribute leadership responsibilities more effectively.

A virtual career coach and an employability course all in one package. A one stop shop for those interested in pursuing a career in the media industry.

Consumer Culture and Postmodernism

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This practical, hands-on guide shows teachers how to use research-proven strategies and structured lessons to teach basic early reading skills. The authors provide an extensive array of lessons, strategies, tips, and supplementary materials.

Presents assessment and instructional activities that are evidence based, practical, and easy to implement. This text demonstrates how to link assessment and instruction practices for various components of literacy learning and helps teachers become informed decision makers about purposeful literacy instruction.

Reflective practice is at the heart of effective teaching, and this book will help you develop into a reflective teacher of history. This book shows you how to plan lessons, how to make the best use of resources and how to assess pupils' progress effectively.

A current and practical book which provides a clear overview of the counselling psychology profession, including the nature of the work; taining, continuing professional development and career pathways; the structure and development of the profession; and more.

This book gives students focussed and practical advice on how to deal with stress in a 3 tiered approach:1. Guidance on how to avoid getting in to stressful situations in the first place2. Strategies for handling stress3. Positive learning and learning on from stress to achieve success.

Accessible to those without a background in law, this book looks at key issues linked to the legal context of social work practice with children. It includes case studies to help students understand the ins and outs of legal issues and to help practitioners improve their practice.

Provides social work trainees and practitioners with guidance on anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice - a key part of social work in mulit-ethnic and multi-cultural Britain. The book is easy to navigate, with clear chapters on communities with roots in a variety of countries.

Focuses on the human side of leadership as the central feature regarding credibility in the public forums where leadership is really tested. This title demonstrates how the field has been lopsidedly dominated by science to the detriment of art.

Demonstrates how teachers can use cooperative learning strategies to engage students in the social studies curriculum. This book offers activities and a variety of problem-solving lessons in five areas of social studies instruction: geography, politics, economics, culture, and history.

Helps engage young children with this approach for building early literacy skills. This book provides word lists, literature selections, and teaching strategies for building young learners' vocabulary and comprehension skills.

A guide for those who are interested in a career in teaching but not sure where to start. It takes readers through various stages of choosing a course, preparing for training and completing the course itself.