The essential teaching theory & practice text for primary English. Covering the skills of planning monitoring & assessment & class management it relates these specifically to primary English. With full coverage of the theory & practice required for effective & creative English teaching this text is an essential guide for all trainees working towards QTS. Practical guidance & features support trainees throughout 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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ICT remains a central part of primary education. This essential knowledge & practice book for primary ICT supports trainees working towards QTS. Covering all aspects of how ICT can support teaching & learning in the core subjects this text helps the reader develop their understanding & practice.

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. This 5th edition features detailed links to the 2012 Teachers' Standards new information on e-safety & notes on the new curriculum.

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This book supports trainees on primary initial teacher training courses where a secure knowledge & understanding of mathematics is required for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). A rigorous test enables trainees to identify their strengths & weaknesses in mathematics & 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 mathematics. 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 mathematics curriculum & updated research summaries reflecting the latest thinking this text is written to help trainee primary teachers develop & consolidate their knowledge of mathematics. 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 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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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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though a great many men & not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well none of them knew whence he had come Despite his mysterious antecedents Ferdinand Lopez aspires to join the ranks of British society. An unscrupulous financial speculator he determines to marry into respectability & wealth much against the wishes of his prospective father-in-law. One of the nineteenth centurys most memorable outsiders Lopezs story is set against that of the ultimate insider Plantagenet Palliser Duke of Omnium. Omnium reluctantly accepts the highest office of state; now at last he is the greatest man in the greatest country in the world. But his government is a fragile coalition & his wifes enthusiastic assumption of the role of political hostess becomes a source of embarrassment. Their troubled relationship & that of Lopez & Emily Wharton is a conjunction that generates one of Trollopes most complex & substantial novels. Part of the Palliser series The Prime Minister s tale of personal & political life in the 1870s has acquired a new topicality in the early twenty-first century. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

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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