Essential reading if you are considering making an application for secondary initial teacher education or preparing to begin your programme. Introduces you to a range of perspectives on teaching and teacher education and guides you through the application process to ensure you choose the training route that’s right for you.

An essential text for students and practitioners on the development and acquisition of language and literacy in the early years. 

A fully updated equality- and child-centred approach to inclusive teaching, essential for all primary trainees.

An essential text for pre-service and in-service trainees and existing practitioners in further education focusing on delivering outstanding personal tutoring and coaching.

A new text on digital literacy for primary trainees and teachers, completely up to date for the new primary curriculum and computing programmes of study.

An essential text for primary trainees and teachers focusing on a range of issues to develop children who can read into children who do read.

This essential text provides ideas for trainees and teachers to extend both their own teaching and their pupils’ learning in primary English through creative approaches and enrichment strategies to promote best practice and outstanding teaching.

The book will enable social work professionals to develop a critical understanding of substance use policy, theory and practice which they can use in practice.

Designed to support professional development in Further Education at all levels, from the trainee teacher to the experienced team leader. The A-Z format ensures the book is comprehensive and easy to use, while a list of key themes enables the reader to navigate the material in a range of ways.

A comprehensive and up to date text for all those required to understand past and current early years’ policy and practice.

Essential reading if you are considering making an application for primary initial teacher education or preparing to begin your programme.

This essential text for primary trainees and teachers examines the key skill of writing beyond the earliest school years, including issues of children’s writing attainment, boys’ relative lack of success and teachers’ lack of confidence in modelling writing.