Penguin Quick Guides: Really Useful English Grammar

Do you want to improve your English grammar? This book guides you to the most important points and difficulties of English grammar, using: short, clear explanations; lots of practice and review pages and cartoons to help you understand - and make you laugh!

Penguin Quick Guides: Really Useful English Verbs

Do you want to learn more English verbs? This book guides you to over 200 of the most important and useful verbs in everyday English, covering the following areas: travel; work and business; law and order; entertainment, and much more.

What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volume II: Facilitating Learning

Designed for pre-service teachers and teachers new to the field of ELT, Volume II and its companion are companion textbook, Volume I, are volumes organized around the key question: What do teachers need to know and be able to do in order for their students to learn English? Volume I covers the characteristics of the context in which teachers work, how English works and how it is learned, and the teacher’s role in the larger professional sphere of English language education. Volume II covers the three main facets of teaching: planning, instructing, and assessing. The focus throughout is on outcomes, that is, student learning.

What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volume I: Understanding Learning

Designed for pre-service teachers and teachers new to the field of ELT, Volume I and its companion textbook, Volume II, are organized around the key question: What do teachers need to know and be able to do in order for their students to learn English? All English language teachers need to understand the nature of language and language learning, and with that understanding they need to be able to facilitate student learning.
Volume I, on understanding learning, provides the background information that teachers need to know and be able to use in their classroom.

Inspiring the Best in Students

How can teachers connect with and motivate students to embrace learning? According to Jonathan C. Erwin, the secret lies in forging positive relationships with students by meeting their individual social-emotional needs.
Inspiring the Best in Students includes step-by-step instructions for dozens of classroom activities for grades 3 12 that help build student-teacher relationships while teaching both content and skills. Also included is a thorough overview of William Glasser's Choice Theory and such core teaching and learning concepts as internal control psychology and total behavior.