This accessible guide to child development is for students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early Years, Early Childhood Studies and related disciplines and for early years practitioners.

Based around the NMC's Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment (2018), this book offers clear, practical advice on how to develop the knowledge and skills required to supervise and assess a range of students in practice. It explores challenging issues, such as learners in difficulty, and considers how to develop resilience and wellbeing from the perspective of both the student and the supervisor and assessor.

Unique purpose-written resource to help students in higher education understand and apply critical thinking in the study of sport.

A straightforward guide to help teachers and trainee teachers in FE navigate the complex system of teaching qualifications and learn to teach in an ever-changing sector.

This comprehensive and accessible guide is written by experts on intitial teacher training and provides all the information needed to apply to initial teacher training in England.

Mental Health Law in England and Wales is a complete and comprehensive guide to the Mental Health Act 1983 for any mental health professional - from social workers, psychologists and occupational therapists, to doctors and nurses. The book aims to simplify mental health law so that it's accessible to busy professionals at all stages of practice as well as those affected by mental health law.

Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards, this book provides an overview of the principles and practice of contemporary mental health nursing care. It equips adult nursing students with the skills to respond to the needs of those in their care who face mental health challenges.

This book inspires and supports new and beginning teachers to use talk-rich and open tasks that bring mathematics to life in the classroom.

This book draws on the latest research to offer guidance in supporting children struggling with literacy.

For teachers wanting to find out what works best for their class, this text shows how to harness the power of small or large scale research to help them find the answer.