The Reception year is a transitional or bridging time for children. This text will guide trainee and beginning teachers to perform the multiple roles and responsibilities of a reception teacher and support children through this transition.

This book supports students and practitioners in Early Childhood Studies, Early Years, Education and related disciplines in understanding self-regulation.

Full coverage of the content of professional studies modules and goes beyond to support trainees on placements and in their learning on the course.

The complete guide to the OFSTED 2019 Education Inspection Framework.

This new text for education undergraduates covers a broad range of themes from across the education sector and focuses on some key contemporary issues. The text includes links to both up-to-date research and more seminal, often cited research and theories.

This book provides a general introduction to working with risk in social care.

A core text on developmental psychology providing learning and skills support for all undergraduate psychology students.

An essential and highly topical text for students undertaking policing related degrees and programmes with a terrorism element.

A complete guide to understanding and using counselling skills in social work.

This book provides exemplar lessons in reading for more able pupils in KS2 and uses them as a starting point for learning. It explores the theory behind good lessons, what makes them good and how they can be adapted to suit different classes and different schools.