Education & Teacher Training Books
There are plenty of educational books here to help you teach and guide children through their critical learning stages. Our books can help you deal with literacy, manage children with special needs and provide resources and ideas for classroom activities.
Classroom Gems and The Essential Guides series contain some of our bestselling books, adopting a hands-on, practical approach and giving teachers valuable tips and ideas that they can use in and out of the classroom.
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Introduction to Teaching
Becoming a Professional5th Edition
Don Kauchak, Paul Eggen
Paperback, May 2013ISBN13: 9780132835633
ISBN10: 0132835630
For an undergraduate course in Foundations and/or Intro to Education. Providing prospective teachers with an honest look at the students, classrooms and sch...
Whole Child, The
Developmental Education for the Early Years10th Edition
Patricia Weissman, Joanne Hendrick
Hardback, May 2013ISBN13: 9780132853422
ISBN10: 0132853426
A classic in the field, this practical methods text provides a complete developmental approach to early childhood education giving teachers the specific skills they need to teach the whole chil...
What Really Matters in Vocabulary
Research-Based Practices Across the Curriculum2nd Edition
Patricia Cunningham
Paperback, May 2013ISBN13: 9780133124453
ISBN10: 0133124452
Vocabulary comes to life in the classroom and across the curriculum as teachers see that what really matters is building bigger vocabularies to make all students better readers. ...
Educational Psychology
Active Learning Edition12th Edition
Anita Woolfolk
Paperback, May 2013ISBN13: 9780133091076
ISBN10: 0133091074
This book is divided into 44 easy-to-read modules, creating a format proven to facilitate learning and retention. In lucid and jargon-free prose, the text explains...
Foundations of American Education
Becoming Effective Teachers in Challenging Times16th Edition
James Johnson, Diann Musial, Gene Hall, Donna Gollnick
Paperback, Apr 2013ISBN13: 9780132836722
ISBN10: 0132836726
For courses in Foundations of Education and Introduction to Teaching A broad introduction to the foundations of education through current discussions of theory...
Assessing and Correcting Reading and Writing Difficulties
5th EditionThomas Gunning
Hardback, Apr 2013ISBN13: 9780132838108
ISBN10: 0132838109
A comprehensive, practical approach that details—and illustrates through a wealth of examples—how to assess students and how to use assessment results to screen students, monitor pro...
Principles of Classroom Management
A Professional Decision-Making Model7th Edition
James Levin, James Nolan
Paperback, Apr 2013ISBN13: 9780132868624
ISBN10: 0132868628
Written for classroom management and general methods courses. The only text that takes a decision-making model approach to classroom management. It provides teachers...
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The Essential Guide to Successful School Trips
Practical Skills for TeachersJohn Trant
Paperback, May 2010ISBN13: 9781408204474
ISBN10: 1408204479
'takes a developing situation forward with realistic, down to earth guidance covering the range of issues to deal with along with practical steps to take to cover them - a really useful suppor...
Classroom Gems: Games, Ideas and Activities for Learning Outside the Primary Classroom
Paul Barron
Paperback, Oct 2009ISBN13: 9781408225608
ISBN10: 1408225603
'forms a valuable, informative and highly practical resource for teachers in planning to extend the curriculum beyond a classroom setting. Lots of good, sensible, low cost solutions for all primary...
Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics
Tony Cotton
Paperback with CD-ROM, Jan 2010ISBN13: 9781405899505
ISBN10: 1405899506
‘Tony Cotton's book will enable students to not only develop their own mathematical skills and subject pedagogy, it will also enhance their understanding of the Primary Mathematics Framewo...
Classroom Gems: Games and Activities for Primary Modern Foreign Languages
Nicola Drinkwater
Paperback, Sep 2008ISBN13: 9781405873925
ISBN10: 1405873922
This new book embodies the philosophy of learning through play. It aims to equip those faced with teaching foreign languages in the primary sector with a large collection of classroom activities wh...
Classroom Gems: Practical Ideas, Games and Activities for the Primary Classroom
Paul Barron
Paperback, Sep 2008ISBN13: 9781405859455
ISBN10: 1405859458
Practical Ideas for the Primary Classroom is a unique, indispensable resource for all those involved in primary teaching. Written by an experienced teacher, it offers inspir...
Active Learning in Primary Classrooms
A Case Study ApproachJenny Monk, Catherine Silman
Paperback, Jun 2011ISBN13: 9781408232880
ISBN10: 140823288X
How can you plan and organise a curriculum to ensure that children are actively involved in the learning process? That they see links between the abstract contexts they are being taught and how...
The Essential Guide to Teaching
Susan Davies OBE
Paperback with CD-ROM, Aug 2006ISBN13: 9781405812603
ISBN10: 1405812605
The Essential Guide to Teaching is invaluable reading for all ITT students and NQTs, tackling the practical issues they are likely to face in their first role as a teacher. This book offer...
The Essential Guide to Lesson Planning
Leila Walker
Paperback, May 2008ISBN13: 9781405872775
ISBN10: 1405872772
The Essential Guide to Lesson Planning is intended to help trainee and newly qualified teachers come to grips with the daily lesson planning required from them. This book shows how the...
Early Childhood Studies
Jane Johnston, Lindy Nahmad-Williams
Paperback, Sep 2008ISBN13: 9781405835329
ISBN10: 140583532X
This core introductory textbook offers an accessible yet rigorous approach to Early Childhood issues, addressing both Care and Education in the Early Years. It present...
Childhood
Services and Provision for ChildrenPhil Jones, Dorothy Moss, Pat Tomlinson, Sue Welch
Paperback, Sep 2007ISBN13: 9781405832571
ISBN10: 1405832576
Childhood: Services and Provision for Children provides an important and timely contribution to the field of Childhood and Youth Studies. This cutting-edge text brings together, within a cri...
Developing Professional Practice 0-7
Sonia Blandford, Catherine Knowles
Paperback, Aug 2009ISBN13: 9781405841146
ISBN10: 1405841141
‘A valuable resource for those working with children of this age.’Greg Parker, Edge Hill University, UK ‘The authors bring a diversity o...
Child Development
Theory and Practice 0-11Jonathan Doherty, Malcolm Hughes
Paperback, Mar 2009ISBN13: 9781405821278
ISBN10: 1405821272
This accessible, pedagogically-rich and UK-authored text on Child Development links psychological theory to real classroom settings and scenarios, and is tailored specifically for those training to...
Perspectives on Play
Learning for LifeAvril Brock, Sylvia Dodds, Pam Jarvis, Yinka Olusoga
Paperback, Sep 2008ISBN13: 9781405846738
ISBN10: 1405846739
This book examines current research and theoretical knowledge with regards to play as a medium of learning. It presents a review and critical analysis of research in the field whilst exp...
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Bestsellers
- Latest Releases
Educational Psychology
International Edition12th Edition
Anita Woolfolk
Paperback, Feb 2012ISBN13: 9780132910996
ISBN10: 0132910993
Were you looking for the book with access to MyEducationLab? This product is the book alone, and does NOT come with access to MyEducationLab. Buy the book and access card package to save mo...
Practical Research
Planning and Design: International Edition10th Edition
Paul Leedy, Jeanne Ormrod
Paperback, Feb 2012ISBN13: 9780132899505
ISBN10: 0132899507
For undergraduate or graduate courses that include planning, conducting, and evaluating research. A "do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself” manual designed to help stu...
Brilliant Teaching Assistant
What you need to know to be a truly outstanding teaching assistantLouise Burnham
Paperback, Mar 2011ISBN13: 9780273734420
ISBN10: 0273734423
What does it really take to become a brilliant teaching assistant? Are you getting the most out of your current support role? Are you aware of the training and development oppo...
Research in Education
Evidence-Based Inquiry: International Edition7th Edition
James McMillan, Sally Schumacher
Paperback, Jul 2009ISBN13: 9780131364158
ISBN10: 0131364154
This substantially revised text provides a comprehensive, highly accessible, and student friendly introduction to the principles, concepts, and methods currently used in educational research. ...
Classroom Gems: Practical Ideas, Games and Activities for the Primary Classroom
Paul Barron
Paperback, Sep 2008ISBN13: 9781405859455
ISBN10: 1405859458
Practical Ideas for the Primary Classroom is a unique, indispensable resource for all those involved in primary teaching. Written by an experienced teacher, it offers inspir...
Classroom Gems: Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Mathematics
John Dabell
Paperback, Oct 2009ISBN13: 9781408223208
ISBN10: 1408223201
Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Mathematics draws together over 150 practical, tried-and-tested, off-the-shelf ideas and activitiesthat can be easily incorpor...
Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics
Tony Cotton
Paperback with CD-ROM, Jan 2010ISBN13: 9781405899505
ISBN10: 1405899506
‘Tony Cotton's book will enable students to not only develop their own mathematical skills and subject pedagogy, it will also enhance their understanding of the Primary Mathematics Framewo...
Child Development
Theory and Practice 0-11Jonathan Doherty, Malcolm Hughes
Paperback, Mar 2009ISBN13: 9781405821278
ISBN10: 1405821272
This accessible, pedagogically-rich and UK-authored text on Child Development links psychological theory to real classroom settings and scenarios, and is tailored specifically for those training to...
