The preparation guide for the Arizona Teacher Proficiency Assessment test - specifically the sections on Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, and Grammar - required to obtain a teaching certificate in the state of Arizona (AZ). Sample Questions and Answers
This practical guide has tips, advice and support for teachers, teaching assistants and parents coping with children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The author has many years' experience of working with and managing ADHD children and provides winning school-time strategies.
The 'Out of School' series is designed to provide adults involved in extended schools and wrap-around care with simple, cost effective solutions to keep children interested, involved and learning. The series aims to offer resources that have a focus on enjoyment, and give priority to learning but without being just more school.
In celebration for the most successful telescope ever built, this book reveals the full story and history of the Hubble and its significance to the scientific world and our own, including its recent images of deep space on the eve of its final servicing mission scheduled for late 2008 and features over 100 high definition colour photographs. This book has 223 pages and is 31cm x 28.1cm x 2.5cm
Response to Intervention (RTI) is an innovative instructional method that enables educators to assess and meet the needs of struggling students before they have fallen too far behind. This title offers step-by-step guidelines for implementing RTI, as well
Takes you into the classroom of Mrs Q who loves to teach with a generous dose of riddles to the delight of her third grade riddle masters. In this title, each chapter contains an engaging and entertaining view into the classroom where you will see how rid
This book describes a variety of patterns for internet-based solutions that support e-Business and its underpinnings. The sequence of patterns flows from business to process to commerce comprising a fundamental view of e-Business, e-Process and e-Commerce.
We may remember their equations and discoveries from school, but do we remember who the men behind the maths were? From the theories of Pythagoras (and did you know he ran a secret brotherhood that studied maths, music and gymnastics?) to coining the term Googol, this title uncovers the mysteries of maths.
A remarkable collection of photographs, including images from NASA, The European Space Agency and The European Southern Observatory. This book explores the latest breakthroughs in space exploration and how these advances have revolutionized our understanding of the universe and our place with it. Giving a fresh perspective on the shape of things to come, based on innovations in technology, giant new telescopes on earth, and advanced space missions of the next. This book has 192 pages and is 26.6cm x 24.7cm x 2cm
Sets out a humane and effective approach to the management of children at risk of permanent exclusion from school. This publication provides detailed guidance (including case studies, check lists, model letters and scripts) on how to facilitate a managed
You may be relieved and excited that your school days are coming to an end - but you are prepared for what comes next? There are many opportunities and possibilities in front of you - higher education, a gap year, travelling or employment. Which path will you choose? The prospect of making these important decisions can evolve into a confusing and daunting time... but help is at hand. This essential new 8th edition also includes case studies illustrating how other students have adapted to life after school, as well as detailed information on making the most of the decisions facing you at this exciting and important time.
This book is aimed at anyone who is new to Excel and the world of spreadsheets, but it also contains the essential ingredients for improving your knowledge of the program and becoming an expert in presenting information, summarizing data and producing reports. If you want to know the best way of creating an expenses list, downloading a bank statement, ranking sales results or simply using Excel more effectively, then this book will help. It's packed with 256 pages of information and illustrations with step-by-step practice guides. We're confident you won't be disappointed.
Teaching children how to cope with conflict effectively is beneficial to their personal development and education, and your ability to teach. This book includes a teaching programme of 18 sessions that helps you to teach children to explore, practise and develop the skills needed for successful conflict resolution.
A teacher's resource offering various activities, including mystery scenarios and problem-solving tasks, designed to develop pupils' thinking skills. It includes: introduction, teacher's notes on suggested teaching activities, background information for t
Are you scared of your children's homework? Maths can often leave children and parents perplexed, Maths teacher and parent Naomi Sani explains the new ways of teaching maths that wont confuse you and make you look smart in front of you children, subjects mastered when reading this book are, divide by chunking, partition and recombine, multiply using the grid method and much more. 21.5cm x 13.4cm x 2.5cm, pages 378
Recognizes that education is a key partner in raising children. This book contends that allowing students, educators and parents to navigate a smaller number of relationships provides many benefits, including a better chance at achieving equal access to a good education for all children.
Many people find that being a Carer gives them a somewhat confined existence as well it might. The author found that writing and reading books and attending evening classes that interested him made a huge difference to the quality of his life and would re
Offers a glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together as freshmen. This book chronicles what they learned from racial and class diversity - and what colleges might do to help their students learn more.
This guide provides practical and informative advice about the realities of being a student parent including the two most important considerations: finances and childcare. Advice for dealing with student life while managing parenting responsibilities is included, along with tips for academic success.
With a detailed analysis of every aspect of human physiology, from the workings of the lacrimal glands to how the body absorbs and uses carbohydrates. The book is divided into 12 easy to reference chapters by body area and function with over 1000 anatomically accurate diagrams and photographs of the workings and functions of every part of the human body.
As the demands on school management teams become ever more complex, this volume offers a fresh and expansive view on the challenges to be met in developing a leadership career. It includes contributions from a diverse range of respected commentators.
Contributors reflect on statistics and attempt to develop a clearer image of where the field may be heading in terms of teaching. To identify the key areas for consideration for children and adolescents learning statistics, there are four themes: content, teaching, learning, and assessment.
With this guide you can trace the history of astronomy, from the earliest human civilizations to the present day. Tour the Solar System, using a unique visual guide illustrated with up-to-date images of planets. This book has 352 pages and is 22.2cm x 13cm x 1.8cm
From pole to pole, The Complete Earth presents one of the most advanced portraits of the most advanced portraits of our planet ever created. Within these pages, data from NASA's most advanced Earth observing satellites has been combined to produce a cloud-free, digital atlas of the entire planet - a mappamundi for the information age.
A new look at Maths without the boring bits. How many trillions are there in a googol? Which fractions are vulgar? Which famous mathematician refused to eat beans? And which one never travelled without his pet spider in an ivory box? Teacher and numbers expert Liz Strachan takes readers beyond the classroom, combining anecdotes, proofs and party tricks to reveal the foundations of algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a clear and entertaining style.
Packed with interactive activities, practical tips and humour, this work aims to blend the richness and energy of NLP and Personality type theory. It is a collection of interactive techniques developed with teachers and students, which informs and inspires young people to make positive life choices.
Written by a recent graduate, A Guide to Uni Life offers a unique viewpoint on how to juggle studying, having fun and avoiding money troubles by someone who has just lived through the experience themselves and can pass on lots of handy tips and advice for
Don't know Heracles from Herodotus? Many of us wish that we could fill in the gaps in our education in order to avoid those embarrassing situations when we feel as if we don't know things that others do. This title provides readers with the opportunity to learn really useful stuff that was never taught in mainstream education.
In order for a community to be truly prepared to respond to any type of emergency, it must develop effective emergency planning. Emergency Planning guides readers through the steps of developing these plans, offering a number of strategies that will help ensure success.
Guide for teachers to keep the fires of learning burning bright year after year No matter how long they've been teaching all teachers need new ideas to keep their classrooms organized, their students engaged and motivated, and their lesson plans sharp.
If Publications develop knowledge and understanding of the world and stimulate creative thinking in role play by asking children 'What If?' Each What If? pack consists of a CD ROM and guidance booklet. The CD contains stunning, high resolution photographs and images which can be printed, projected or used with an interactive white board.
Education is of relevance to everyone, but it involves specialized terminology which may be unfamiliar or opaque. This new UK-focused dictionary - with 1, 250 authoritative entries - provides clear and accessible definitions of the terms, organizations, qu
Circle time is an approach to school management which helps teachers to initiate their own school policy on self-esteem and positive behaviour. This book is a practical guide for the primary classroom contains teachers' notes as well as circle time activities.
Discover the incredible world of science ï ½ chemical reactions, forces, nuclear energy, robotics, inventions and technology. Illustrated with hundreds of detailed images and diagrams, this book is crammed with facts about scientific methods, theories and key break throughs.
ï ½ Bulletpoints of information
ï ½ Extensive glossary
ï ½ Amazing fact panels
Two books in one
ï ½ Get it right ï ½ find all the words and meanings you need
ï ½ Boost your language ï ½ thousands of alternative and opposite words
ï ½ Have confidence ï ½ help with spelling and confusable words
ï ½ Get there fast ï ½ clear layout, with the most useful alternative words highlighted
Approx size: 13cm x 20cm x 4cm
A little book packed full of ideas and resource suggestions for the popular topic of colours. This book looks at every aspect of colour and how the topic can be integrated into every area of the curriculum. It covers playing with colours, mixing colours, colours outdoors (including rainbows) and musical colours.