The essential teaching theory & practice text for primary mathematics. Covering the skills of planning monitoring & assessment & class management it relates these specifically to primary mathematics. With full coverage of the theory & practice required for effective & creative mathematics teaching this text is an essential guide for all trainees working towards QTS. Throughout practical guidance & features support trainees to translate this learning to the classroom embed ICT in their lessons & to understand the wider context of their teaching. This 6th edition

Includes:: links to the 2012 Teachers' Standards & notes on the new National Curriculum.

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The changing landscape of primary teaching requires trainees to consider learning & teaching in new ways. This new book supports trainee teachers working towards primary QTS in all aspects of primary professional studies. Exploring the curriculum the developing child the developing teacher & teaching skills the text offers in-depth coverage of all aspects of teaching & learning alongside practical teaching suggestions. Chapters on inclusion teacher identity & the wider school community consider key issues in teaching & learning today. This second edition is newly linked to the 2012 Teachers Standards &

Includes:: notes on the new National Curriculum.

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This book supports trainees on primary initial teacher training courses where a secure knowledge & understanding of science is required for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). A rigorous test enables trainees to identify their strengths & weaknesses in science & this can be revisited in order to monitor & evaluate progress towards QTS. Trainees are able to direct their studies more usefully & quickly develop confidence in topics they find difficult. This edition is fully up to date with the 2007 QTS Standards. ...

The essential subject knowledge text for primary science. Secure subject knowledge & understanding is the foundation of confident creative & effective teaching. This comprehensive text

Includes:: interactive tasks a self assessment section to allow trainees to better understand their level of knowledge & M level extension boxes to provide further challenge in all chapters. With full coverage of the science curriculum & updated research summaries reflecting the latest thinking this text is written to help trainee primary teachers develop & consolidate their knowledge of science. The 6th edition of this popular book features detailed links to the 2012 Teachers' Standards.

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The essential teaching theory & practice text for primary science. Covering the skills of planning monitoring & assessment & class management it relates these specifically to primary science. With full coverage of the theory & practice required for effective & creative science teaching this text is an essential guide for all trainees working towards QTS. Throughout practical guidance & features support trainees to translate this learning to the classroom embed ICT in their lessons & to understand the wider context of their teaching. This 6th edition

Includes:: links to the 2012 Teachers Standards & notes on the new National Curriculum.

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Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" features a schoolmistress you'll never forget in this beautifully repackaged " Penguin Essentials" edition. ' Give me a girl at an impressionable age & she is mine for life...' Passionate free-thinking & unconventional Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set the creme de la creme each famous for something
- Monica for mathematics Eunice for swimming Rose for sex
- who are initiated into a world of adult games & extracurricular activities they will never forget. But the price they pay is their undivided loyalty..." The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" is a brilliantly comic novel featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in all literature. " Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards". (John Updike). " Spark's most celebrated novel". (" Independent"). " There is no question about the quality & distinctiveness of her writing with its quirky concern with human nature & its comedy". (William Boyd). "A brilliant psychological figure". (" Observer"). Muriel Spark was born & educated in Edinburgh. She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950 when she won a short-story writing competition in the " Observer" & her many subsequent novels include " Memento Mori" (1959) " The Ballad of Peckham Rye" (1960) " The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1961) " The Girls of Slender Means" (1963) & " Aiding & Abetting" (2000). She also wrote plays poems children's books & biographies. She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993 & died in 2006."

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In Muriel Sparks novels the brevity is only equalled by the brilliance. This collection of four stories each a miniature masterpiece illustrates her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes all are fantastic comedies of manners bristling with wit. Her most famous book The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie has been made into a play & a film. It explores the perils of personal & political infatuation among schoolgirls & their teachers. Salvation is the theme of The Girls Of Slender Means which vividly evokes the life of postwar London. The Drivers Seat made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor charts the heroines descent into madness. The Only Problem is a witty fable about suffering which brings the Book of Job to bear on contemporary terrorism. ...

Muriel Sparks The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Includes:: an introduction by Candia Mc William in Penguin Modern

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When a prostitute is found murdered in her bedsit the Metropolitan police set to work finding the perpetrator of this brutal attack. DNA samples lead them straight to George Marlow a man previously convicted of attempted rape. The police think they've found their man but things are not quite what they seem.. . Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison came through the ranks the hard way opposed & resented at every step by her male colleagues. So when DCI Shefford falls ill the opportunity for Tennison to get herself noticed finally arrives. But the boys are not happy & every one of her colleagues is willing her to trip up. Desperate to remove all doubt around her suspect Tennison struggles to make the charges stick. & then a second body turns up. With the team against her & a dangerous criminal still on the loose DCI Jane Tennison must fight to prove herself now or never. ...

The coroner's report identifies the body as young black female & impossibly anonymous. Yet one thing is clear to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison about the latest victim discovered in one of London's poorest districts
- that news of her murder will tear apart a city already cracking with racial tensions hurling Scotland Yard & Tennison herself into a maelstrom of shocking accusations & sudden wrenching violence. Even as London's brutal killer remains at large Tennison remains locked in a struggle to overcome her station house's brutal chauvinism & insidious politicking. & as the department's deeply rooted racism rears its head to overshadow every facet of her new investigation the trail of her prime suspect is growing colder. Worse when the details of the beleaguered detective's stormy personal life explode across the headlines of London's sleasiest tabloids Tennison's already frenzied determination to bring the killer to justice will be catapulted into obsession
- one that could send her spiralling over the edge.

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