Achieving Competence, Success and Excellence in Teaching

Measuring the ability to teach is central to government policies to raise standards in schools. 'Successful teaching' is now measured through basic technical and personal skills in the context of the National Curriculum. Teachers are labelled successes or failures based on graded OFSTED inspections.
This thought-provoking book explains how different levels or qualities of teaching can be identified and achieved. It outlines the criteria for competent, successful and excellent educational practice, whilst suggesting ways of achieving the highest possible measure of excellence.

Brave New Digital Classroom: Technology and Foreign Language Learning

Brave New Digital Classroom deftly interweaves results of pedagogical research and descriptions of the most successful computer-assisted language learning (CALL) projects to explore how technology can best be employed in the foreign-language curriculum to assist the second language acquisition process.

Daily Academic Vocabulary, Grade 6

Daily Academic Vocabulary provides 36 weeks of direct instruction and reproducible practice on key vocabulary words that students will encounter in many different academic contexts and learning experiences.

Examples of the words presented in grade 6+:

- acquire, cite, implicit

- characteristic, distinguish, infer
- concise, exclude, irrelevant
- connotation, feasible, strategic

Fly High Fun Grammar complements the Fly High series and can be used in class or for homework. It includes: • clear and simple explanations for all the grammar points in the Pupil's Book • a variety of practice activities, with constant recycling • further exploitation of songs from the Pupil's Book • games and role play activities • regular Reviews The accompanying audio CD includes the grammar explanations, songs and example dialogues for the speaking activities.

English Skills with Readings, 7th edition

The new seventh edition of English Skills with Readings features the author's trademark crystal-clear explanations, along with his range of motivating activities and writing assignments that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. This edition of the book adds a variety of exciting new features to the author's proven approach, and reinstates much-requested materials from previous editions.