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Learning to be a primary teacher is a bit like becoming a superhero!It's not impossible, but it takes hard work and dedication to become that heroic individual, looked up to by the whole class, who is able to simultaneously be fun, creative, responsive to a range of different needs and who knows everything about all subjects! So to harness and develop your inner powers look no further than this essential core text. It will ensure you are fully equipped to:tackle planning and assessment with easewin the fight against poor behaviourovercome your worries about subject knowledgechallenge and apply theory and researchbuild your emotional strength and resiliencestand tall as a professionaland most importantly, protect and nurture the children in your care.

An essential text helping trainees and teachers develop their effectiveness by reflecting on, analysing and improving their practice in the light of a deeper understanding of the professional Standards.

For all trainees and teachers, this handy guide provides an understanding of and strategies for building resilience and emotional intelligence to improve classroom behaviour, promote stress-free teaching and so enhance learning.

This is an essential guide to teaching primary English, with a focus on systematic synthetic phonics. The new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the structure, content and requirements of the national curriculum, and to include the latest policy context.

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

A concise one stop, pick up/put down book providing both pre and in-service trainees with comprehensive coverage of the Level 3 Award in Education and Training, including the Learning and Development units.

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.

Aimed at trainees and teachers, this up to date text addresses primary science teaching in light of the new primary National Curriculum and the latest Teachers' Standards, providing creative, inspiring and practical ideas and approaches for teaching the full range of science topics.

Essential reading for all those teaching or training to teach Early Years mathematics, providing comprehensive subject and pedagogic knowledge for those responsible for the youngest children in school and their vital first experiences of learning mathematics.

For all secondary trainees and teachers, this text examines how an understanding of emotional intelligence can improve classroom behaviour, promote stress-free teaching and so enhance learning in the secondary school.