Essential support to achieve the new Level 3 Award in Education and Training, which replaces PTLLS, this edition is updated to include more case studies so students can engage more closely with what it means to be a professional in the further education and skills sector.

A guide to balancing academic work, placements and home life to help students to stay the course and succeed at their studies!

This book explores the practical application of distributed school leadership, combining theory and practice to demonstrate how this approach can result in better learner outcomes.

In this teacher-friendly book, the authors offer a step-by-step guide to delivering effective lessons that can significantly improve achievement for English language learners.

Offers an introductory qualitative research for social science disciplines. This book covers the full range of methodologies and viewpoints about the field, including coverage of social media as a tool to facilitate research or as a venue for study.

Educational leadership is changing, and reflexive practice is the new 'must do' at all levels of education. This book helps headteachers and senior leaders to reflect and understand more about how understanding emotion is key to sustainability in educational leadership.

The current challenges facing higher education are addressed, and the authors provide a new way of thinking about the many aspects of learning and teaching.

This book brings a wide range of themes under one cover: the supervision process, writing, the viva, the examination of written and oral 'performance' and the aftermath, including publishing.

Focusing specifically on the needs of primary teacher trainees and the requirements for Qualified Teacher Status, this book explores new initiatives in primary language teaching in a theoretical context. Theory snapshots, task boxes and teaching ideas help students understand the theory and translate it into good practice.

Students on every childhood course study the main theories and approaches in the field, and this book conveniently brings together the work of the main theorists including Montesorri, Vygotsky and Reggio Emilia.