This guide covers the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998. It provides a full text of the Act with a section by section explanation in plain language. There is an analysis of the key issues and procedures the Act introduces: reduction of infant classes to a maximum of 30; the preparation of Education...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Education issues have been much discussed of late. In addition to the question of whether exams are becoming easier, the Government's academies programme has provoked a mixed response. Meanwhile, student debts...

'Education, exclusion and citizenship' provides a hard-hitting account of the realities of exclusion, examining the behaviour which typically results in exclusion, and asks questions about a society which communally...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Educational leaders - whether in schools, colleges or higher education - are challenged with steering unprecedented change; educational management has never been more demanding. Within the context of a new 'learning...

Using cartoons, diagrams and visual prompts to support the text, this book opens with a look at what effective teachers do and offers a four-step approach to improving communication skills. It explains how to use influential language patterns to support learning and positive behaviour and the secrets of body...

All teachers are now having to cope with rapid changes and the wide-reaching implications of educational reforms. The rise of ICT, the increased public accountability of schools, the increasing use of learning...

This book examines how teachers and students actually go about their classroom business. It carefully avoids the assumptions of policy-makers and theorists about what ought to be happening and focuses on what is...

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Produced by the Learning Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), this case study looks at the theme of curriculum development. From the Isle of Wight College, it shows how the explicit embedding of science into a vocational qualification helps to develop an appreciation of the role of science in construction. The...

This Powerpoint presentation from the May 2016 Research Conference looks at the issues facing teachers in using evaluation in their CPD activities and illustrates how to do this more effectively.

Author: Irina Kudenko

Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and...

Daniel Goleman argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, and that our emotions play a major role in thought, decision making and individual success. Self-awareness, impulse control...

This volume is designed to introduce emotional intelligence by defining what it is and explaining why it is important. It provides a framework for understanding emotional intelligence and illustrates ways in which to...