Classroom Practice

This book addresses professionals across multi-disciplinary fields and provides an insight into the way in which students and teachers interrelate. An interpretive approach to teaching and learning is explored in this volume. It gives rise to a series of dilemmas for the tutor of professional people..

This indispensable textbook and guide provides the underpinning knowledge to support all teaching assistants working towards Level 2 of the National Occupational Standards...

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This collection examines the promise and limitations for computer-assisted language learning of emerging speech technologies: speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and acoustic visualization...

The Really Useful Creativity Book provides creative teaching approaches and ideas that will enable children to develop their creative thinking and learning. Written for the primary school teacher, student or trainee teacher, the book shows you how to enable creativity to flourish in your classroom...

What is the most significant factor for explaining why some individuals are more successful than others – genetic inheritance, privileged background or luck? Although conventional approaches stress the prime importance of one of these, Tyler argues that such theories fail to deal adequately with the..

This textbook, designed to meet the needs of foundation degree students, provides an accessible overview of the teaching assistant's role, incorporating practical tasks that will challenge students and improve their day-to-day practice...

This textbook, designed to meet the needs of foundation degree students, provides an accessible overview of the teaching assistant's role, incorporating practical tasks that will challenge students and improve their day-to-day practice...

Brigid Smith shows how to exploit the links between writing and reading to give children the all-important experience of literacy. Whilst emphasising reading enjoyment, she relates her approach to assessment and the National Curriculum..

In the face of a subject-based National Curriculum, topic-work is under close scrutiny. The authors argue its case by showing how topics can fulfil specific curricular requirements whilst retaining a certain flexibility...

Suitable for those training to teach in the learning and skills sector. This text takes a pragmatic approach, relating theory to real practice through cases, illustrations and interactive tasks in every chapter. It offers guidance for those who are at the beginning of their training or already quali..

This text introduces engaging, innovative pedagogy for putting active and dramatic approaches to learning and teaching into action and invites readers to apply these principles as they plan for their own classroom contexts...