This fully revised essential guide gives all primary trainees and early career teachers the key knowledge, understanding and skills they need to succeed. 

 A critical and thematic approach to key issues for early years students and practitioners, with a focus throughout on reflective practice

Stories of practice, with critical insights, from a range of higher education practitioners and settings providing professional learning and development for personal tutors and academic advisors.

Focuses on using a strength-based approach when working with children and families; based on the belief that there are always strengths in the most challenging of situations.

Stories of success from a range of contexts and settings that demonstrate how to develop as a successful teacher education researcher.

An evidence-informed guide to effective mentoring in initial teacher education.

A powerful and challenging book comprising stories of anti-racist action by higher education scholars including researchers and teachers at various stages of their careers. Aimed at and relevant for anyone involved in education, it encourages reflection on the tolerance of racist structures and strategies to help enact positive change.

A practical guide to the SEND CoP for trainees, teachers and other health and social care professionals working with children and young people who present with special educational needs or disability. 

A personal account of Foster to Adopt drawing on a range of experiences of the highs and lows of adopting babies and small children.    

The only book you need to understand the who, what, why and how of coaching in schools, with relevance for all teachers whatever their age phase or setting.

A key text to help early career teachers understand the important role they can play in school curriculum design and implementation.

An accessible, carefully researched, quick-read outlining the benefits and applications of cognitive science for the early career teacher and their pupils.