How can new teachers use assessment to enhance their teaching? How can assessment help pupils to learn? What are the arrangements for testing and examinations and the statutory assessment requirements at secondary school level?
This is a resource book for teachers containing material for a wide variety of games which can be played in the English language classroom. Each game focusses on one or more points of English grammar. A specification is given for each game, describing its level, materials needed, grammar points practised and time required. Grammar Games enables teachers to integrate grammar practice into their classes in novel and motivating ways.
A Short Guide to Classical Mythology is a concise, user-friendly, quick reference for general readers, students and teachers. Kirkwood's treatment of the characters, settings and stories of ancient mythology emphasizes their importance in Western literature. The entries are ordered alphabetically, vary in length according to their significance and include bold and italic typefaces to draw the reader's attention to important terms and cross references.
Kirkwood's text provides a user-friendly, quick reference guide for teachers, students, and general readers. It is an excellent, interdisciplinary resource beneficial in the study of classics, literature, and history.
Being an Elementary School Teacher: Real World Tips & Stories from Working TeachersThe purpose of this book is to help students and career changers get a taste of what it's really like to be an elementary school teacher. It was set out to do so by inviting elementary teachers actively doing their work in classrooms across the country to tell about their experiences. Dozens of teachers generously shared their wisdom and guidance. The result of this work - which we call "Career Stories"- reveals the rewards, challenges, frustrations, and the do's and the don'ts of being a teacher in today's world.
This book focuses on thirty-three rules or principles that educators often fail to pay heed to in their professional activity. These are rules that are vaguely articulated or even left unsaid when preparing contemporary teachers.
