This book for inservice and preservice teachers demonstrates how to use drama to promote students' speaking and listening skills, including strategies to help motivate reluctant learners. The authors show techniques for using role play effectively and explore how to generate a productive dialogue between teachers and pupils that is both powerful and enabling.

This book discusses 88 terms. It’s meant to give readers an introduction to each of these ideas, providing more than a dictionary or glossary, but still something that can be read and understood quickly.
The book is divided into chapters by topics, and a reader could profitably read the chapter from start to finish and get an overview of a key area in science education.

Featuring a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games, this practical handbook is designed to foster successful social strategies for children aged 5-12, and will help adults to understand and reflect constructively on children's social skills.The book covers the theory behind the games in accessible language, and includes a broad range of enjoyable activities: active and passive, verbal and non-verbal, and for different sized groups. Deborah Plummer addresses issues that might arise when supporting children with a range of communication differences, including children with learning differences, and offers a variety of cognitive and behavioural strategies to help children to reinforce the skills explored in the games.This is an ideal resource for teachers, parents, carers and all those working to improve the social skills of children.

This book is written specifically for teachers-in-training which will clarify the 'big picture' of monitoring and assessment and makes the crucial distinctions in this large (and still taken-for-granted) field. There has been a huge effort over the last decade to bolster external, summative assessment (ie SATs) which has distorted teachers' perceptions of the potential of good formative assessment to raise achievement.

This book by Dr. Carlo Magno and Mr. Jerome Ouano for higher education can be used by preservice teachers, educational psychology majors, teachers, and practitioners in assessment. It features 9 chapters about assessment in the classroom context, stating objectives, constructing and analyzing tests, student grading, and the history of assessment