Debunking common misconceptions and myths surround teaching and education.

A practical guide containing 50 different quality improvement and quality assurance approaches to help improve practice.

The book covers research, theory and practical application of developing higher level readers within the primary classroom.

An essential text for students on the PQ Adult Social Work pathway

An accessible text exploring the wider principles around ethics and values in education and supporting students in establishing their own professional identity.

This text provides trainees, teachers and schools with practice-based advice, informed by current practitioners, relating to the delivery of British Values. It covers many topical themes and supports educational professionals to understand their duties around the PREVENT agenda and goes further to explore why this is important.

The child is placed at the heart of the text and it includes substantial chapters examining key pieces of legislation, law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice and help students gain confidence whilst on placements.

A practical introduction developed to underpin core aspects of commissioning services in health and social care with tools and strategies that really work, this is a step-by-step guide to the commissioning process and will help the reader better understand the skills required for good commissioning, the challenges they may face and how to approach them and what makes a good commissioning manager.

A comprehensive guide to support, challenge and develop trainee teachers' understanding of evidence-based teaching in primary schools.

Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards, this book introduces students to the principles and practice of leadership, management and team working. It uses students' own values and experience of leadership as a framework through which to learn about the topic, covering the core theory in straight-forward language and relating it to practice through multiple case studies and activities.