Classroom Practice Books

New and Published Books

1. Planning an Appropriate Curriculum in the Early Years

   A guide for early years practitioners and leaders, students and parents, 3rd Edition

   By Rosemary Rodger

   Now its third edition, Planning an Appropriate Curriculum in the Early Years offers a comprehensive guide for early years practitioners and students on how to plan and implement a suitable curriculum for the children in an Early Years setting. It examines the key roles and responsibilities of...

   Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Brilliant Ideas for Using ICT in the Inclusive Classroom

   By Sally McKeown, Angela McGlashon

   Series: David Fulton / Nasen

   How can you use ICT to boost the achievement of all your pupils? This practical teachers’ guide will help you to unlock the enormous potential of new technology in order to enhance pupils’ learning, particularly for young people with additional needs. Written by two of the UK’s leading technology...

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. A Chinese Perspective on Teaching and Learning

   Edited by Betty C. Eng

   Series: Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia

   Bringing together educators from a range of backgrounds - psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and teaching - this volume shows how Asian cultural values and beliefs can provide a lens through which to understand and envision how curriculum and pedagogy can be creatively adapted,...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Evaluating Teaching and Learning

   A practical handbook for colleges, universities and the scholarship of teaching

   By David Kember, Paul Ginns

   Every semester, colleges and universities ask students to complete innumerable course and teaching evaluation questionnaires to evaluate the learning and teaching in courses they have taken. For many universities it is a requirement that all courses be evaluated every semester. The laudable...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
5. Educating for Diversity and Social Justice

   By Amanda Keddie

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Educating for Diversity and Social Justice foregrounds the personal stories of educators who are engaging the space of schooling as a site of possibility for realizing the goals of social justice. It is a book inspired by a vision of education as a practice of freedom where young people –...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Primary English Encyclopedia

   The heart of the curriculum, 4th Edition

   By Margaret Mallett

   ‘Do you know your diphthongs from your digraphs? Are you au fait with all the main reading programmes published in the UK? And can you really tell the difference between a legend, a myth and a fable? If you have any doubt about saying yes to any of these questions, fear not; the answers are all in...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Principles for Effective Pedagogy

   International responses to evidence from the UK Teaching & Learning Research Programme

   Edited by Mary James, Andrew Pollard

   The UK Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) worked for ten years to improve outcomes for learners in schools and other sectors through high quality research. One outcome of individual projects and across-Programme thematic work was the development of ten ‘evidence-informed’ principles...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
8. Visible Learning for Teachers

   Maximizing Impact on Learning

   By John Hattie

   In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than 15 years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Visible...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. Preventing Classroom Disruption (RLE Edu O)

   Policy, Practice and Evaluation in Urban Schools

   By David Coulby, Tim Harper

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   There has always been considerable debate about the best solutions to deal with disruptive behaviour in schools. On the one hand is the strategy of segregating disruptive pupils while on the other is a commitment to keeping such pupils in the ordinary school. This book advocates the latter...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
10. Aspects of Learning (RLE Edu O)

    By Brian O'Connell

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    The time has passed when learning was identified purely as a process involving the ability to store and recall knowledge and facts, and the competence to produce them when required. These abilities still seriously concern the potential teacher and this book duly examines them, but the ‘whys’ and...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge