How can you become a successful teacher? The Teachers' Handbook is an accessible reference work, based on the general knowledge that every beginning teacher should possess. It offers a host of practical tools and is an inspiration for current thesis topics. This publication provides a comprehensive bridge between theory and everyday classroom practice.

The Teachers' Handbook answers key questions for the student teacher, varying from 'How can I teach my students?' to 'How can I grow as a teac...

Vreemde talen kunnen een belangrijke bijdrage leveren aan persoonlijke en professionele ontwikkeling, en ze komen van pas bij internationale samenwerking. Wie meerdere talen beheerst, heeft ruimere communicatiemogelijkheden en is beter in staat om taal te doorzien en om zich in te leven in andere culturen. Maar hoe help je iemand om taalvaardig en taal- en intercultureel bewust te worden? Wat voor ondersteuning, oefening en kennis is daarvoor nodig? Het Handboek vreemdetalendidactiek maakt (t...

Het boek Een meester in leren is geschreven naar aanleiding van de behoefte van studenten van lerarenopleidingen aan een praktisch, leesbaar, en studeerbaar boek over leertheorieën en leerprocessen. Dit boek voorziet in die behoefte, doordat het in heldere taal geschreven is en vol staat met praktijkvoorbeelden van de wijze waarop leertheorieën in de dagelijkse onderwijspraktijk van het voorgezet onderwijs (algemeen voortgezet onderwijs en (v)mbo) toegepast kunnen worden.

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In November 2008, John Hattie's ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new audience. Written for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply th...

Teaching would be easy if there were clear recipes you could follow every time. The Ingredients for Great Teaching explains why this is impossible and why a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work. Instead of recipes, this book examines the basic ingredients of teaching and learning so you can use them wisely in your own classroom in order to become a better and more effective teacher.

Taking an approach that is both evidence-based and practical, author Pedro de Bruyckere explores ten crucial...

Focused on the needs of the new classroom researcher and those studying education on Masters-level courses, this is a thorough and thoughtful guide to the research process, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed research methods.

The book uses extracts from exchanges in real classrooms, authentic texts and language teaching tasks. It provides lots of practical activities so that you can immediately and easily put the ideas to work in your classroom. Also, suggests ways of creating awareness-raising tasks to help students acquire grammar.