Do you need good leaders to achieve good quality or does good quality create good leadership? This book explores the meanings and understandings of quality and leadership that are present in early years services and how to lead in order to develop and achieve quality in your early years setting.

A complete guide to exploring values and ethics in coaching

With a strong emphasis on reflectivity and reflexivity, this book provides placement students with a guide to critically studying an organization from the inside, and is particularly suited to those needing to do a reflective journal or essay as part of their studies.

Enables practitioners, scholars and academics to understand how to re-design or suggest changes to curriculum structure, shape and content.

John MacInnes takes the fear out of statistics for students, and helps to raise the standards of their quantitative methods skills, by clearly and accessibly introducing all that's needed to know about using secondary data and working with IBM SPSS Statistics.

This new fourth edition takes the reader through the complex network of policy development with activities which make a potentially dry subject matter come alive.

From the bestselling Maths Recovery series comes another exciting resource for teachers. Focusing around the three stages of development that connect to whole number knowledge this is an essential addition to your Mathematics teaching toolkit.

A practical introduction to statistical analysis by this award-winning teacher, helping students to make clear connections between statistics and the real world.

This book contains a collection of autobiographical stories centered on themes of race/ethnicity, immigration/acculturation, religion, and social class. Stories allow the reader to understand the significance and influence of culture on identity development, sense of self, family relationships, interpersonal relationships, and life choices.

Inspiring to teachers of all experience levels, this guide uses humour and insight to show how to teach with daring, while growing through risk, reflection, and revision.