Starting nursery is a big step, so most children will feel nervous at first. This charming book explains what the day will look like, from saying goodbye to parents to meeting other children and learning new things. It shows children what exciting activities might be on offer, like dressing up in fabulous outfits or playing outdoors on tricycles.

With simple-to-read text and delightful full-colour illustrations by Mel Four, Time to Go to Nursery helps children feel confident about going to nursery and reminds them that someone will always be there to help if they're unsure.

From leading Early Years expert Penny Tassoni MBE, Time To... picture books use simple words and colourful illustrations to help young children understand all-important everyday skills. Featuring practical advice and tips for practitioners, carers and parents, these books will help you explore positive behaviour with children in a fun and friendly way.

'Molly Potter's books are just gorgeous and this one is another winner!' Kathy Brodie, Early Years expert and host of Early Years TV 'A good starting point for conversations about inclusion.' Bookseller From the bestselling author of How Are You Feeling Today?, this picture book encourages children to celebrate uniqueness and diversity and helps them to challenge stereotypes. The Same but Different explores the ways in which we're all unique as well as the similarities we all share. Using everyday examples, clear explanations and colourful illustrations by Sarah Jennings, this book prompts children to broaden their perspectives and rejoice in their differences. After all, imagine how boring the world would be if everyone was exactly the same! This book covers lots of ways in which we're different, including how we look, where we live, the languages we speak, what our families are like and what we believe in. It's the perfect resource for starting important conversations with children about diversity and inclusion, with topics such as race, disability, gender, sexual orientation and religion. Early Years and PSHE expert Molly Potter also provides a glossary of terms and notes for parents and carers offering advice on tackling prejudice right from the start.

Jade is a young girl with a big problem. She has run into her first trouble at school, and is struggling with the uncertainties we all face when we try to solve a problem alone. Fortunately for Jade, her wise grandfather from Hawaii is visiting and in his special way presents to Jade five simple rules for happy living. In the first and second rules Jade learns the value of creating a safe space and the emotions connected to withholding the truth and telling the truth. With the remaining rules, honoring all agreements, being supportive and keeping exchanges in balance and her grandfather's guidance, love and support, Jade experiences how each applies to her life in many important ways. As Jade grows, so in turn does her understanding, and our understanding, of how five rules shape and define lives and how they support ethical behavior in marriages, family and relationships.

This book offers a comprehensive and critical guide to research and practice in the field of arts education and conflict management. The DRACON project explores the relationship between drama and conflict transformation. This international, interdisciplinary and comparative action research project, begun in 1996, is aimed at improving conflict management and transformation among adolescent school students using the medium of educational drama. The book reports on the underpinning principles, and on action research practice in Malaysia, Sweden and Australia. The strategies and techniques, which were revolutionary when first introduced, are now tried and tested. The book chronicles the history, successes, opportunities and challenges of the original 10-year project, and brings the story up to date by highlighting some of its many legacies and resulting influences around the world. This book will benefit researchers, academics and graduate students in Education, the Social Sciences, Dispute Resolution and the Performing Arts.

Teaching Today's Health, Tenth Edition, balances comprehensive theory with a wealth of effective classroom activities to give you the tools you need to become successful health educators. This book's strong background and depth in teaching methods prepares you for the challenges of today's teaching environment. Meaningful content enhancements include expanded coverage of bullying and obesity, body systems, and substance abuse and a new Creativity in the Classroom feature and an Index of Strategies). Important currency updates include a significantly updated nutrition chapter with new MyPlate and 2010 Dietary Guidelines and more technology coverage. Helpful Companion Website include all Worksheets available in PDF form, for easy copying to hand out to students in class, and a new easy-to-reference Glossary. Priced significantly less than other books in the market, this attractive two-color book provides great value to you.

Kids today need manners more than ever, and "Dude, That's Rude!" makes it fun and easy to get some. Full-color cartoons and kid-friendly text teach the basics of polite behavior in all kinds of situations--at home, at school, in the bathroom, on the phone, at the mall, and more. Kids learn Power Words to use and P.U. Words to avoid, why their family deserves their best manners, and the essentials of e-tiquette (politeness online). It seems like light reading, but it's serious stuff: Manners are major social skills, and this book gives kids a great start.

Spesifiek geskryf om aan al die vereistes van die nasionale Kurrikulum- en Assessering beleidsverklaring (KABV) te voldoen. Sleutelterme word in rooi gedruk as dit vir die eerste keer verskyn. ’n Lys van hierdie terme word ook in rooi aan die begin van elke eenheid of hoofstuk gelys. Nuwe woorde is in blou en word in die kantlyn verduidelik. Aktiwiteite help leerders om te verstaan wat hulle geleer het. 'n Opsomming aan die einde van elke onderwerp help leerders studeer. Die Formele Assesserings taak (FAT) blokkie bevat take wat leerders voorberei vir die wat in die klas voltooi moet word. Vrae aan die einde van elke onderwerp help leerders met hersiening. ‘n Voorbeeld van ‘n eksamenvraestel aan die einde van die boek sal leerders ook help oefen en leer oor alles wat hulle nodig het om te weet. Gratis studiegids.

A volume in Studies in the History of Education Series Editor Karen L. Riley, Auburn University at Montgomery This volume, The New Social Studies: People, Projects and Perspectives is not an attempt to be the comprehensive book on the era. Given the sheer number of projects that task would be impossible. However, the current lack of knowledge about the politics, people and projects of the NSS is unfortunate as it often appears that new scholars are reinventing the wheel due to their lack of knowledge about the history of the social studies field. The goal of this book then, is to sample the projects and individuals involved with the New Social Studies (NSS) in an attempt to provide an understanding of what came before and to suggest guidance to those concerned with social studies reform in the future-especially in light of the standardization of curriculum and assessment currently underway in many states. The authors who contributed to this project were recruited with several goals in mind including a broad range of ages, interests and experiences with the NSS from participants during the NSS era through new, young scholars who had never heard much about the NSS. As many of the authors remind us in their chapters, much has been written, of the failure of the NSS. However, in every chapter of this book, the authors also point out the remnants of the projects that remain. Chapters in this book include: National Security Trumps Social Progress: The Era of the New Social Studies in Retrospect by Ronald W. Evans; Hilda Taba: Social Studies Reform from the Bottom Up by Barbara Slater Stern; Fannie Shaftel and Her New Social Studies by Jane Bernard- Powers; Can You Still Catch Fish with New Social Studies Bait? Ted Fenton and the Carnegie-Mellon (Social Studies) Project by Michelle D. Cude; "The Quest for Relevancy" Allan Kownslar and Historical Inquiry in the New Social Studies Movement by Elizabeth Yeager Washington and Robert L. Dahlgren; Leader-Writers: The Contributions of Donald Oliver, Fred Newmann and James Shaver to the Harvard Social Studies Project by Chara Haeussler Bohan and Joseph R. Feinberg; Harold Berlak and the Metropolitan St. Louis Social Studies Project: Cultivating Social Studies at Local Level by Carol Klages; A Red Headed Stepchild of Social Reconstruction: Sociology and the New Social Studies by Karen L. Riley; Geography and the New Social Studies: The High School Geography Project and the Georgia Geography Curriculum Project by Joseph P. Stoltman; Economics and the New Social Studies by Beverly J. Armento; Anthropology and the Anthropology Projects, Long Ago in a Galaxy Far Away by Murry Nelson; Making Sense of It All: A Research Synthesis on the Impact of Man: A Course of Study by Chrystal S. Johnson; American Political Behavior: The Project and the People by Carole E. Hahn; Small Projects of the New Social Studies (Bring Back the Best) by John D. Hoge; The Fight over MACOS by Larry Kraus; The "History Problem" in Curricular Reform: A Warning to Constructivists from the New Social Studies Movement by Geoffrey Scheurman and Keith Reynolds; We Won't Get Fooled Again; Will We Teacher Perceptions of the New Social Studies by Mark A. Previte; The New Social Studies and the Ethos of Multiculturalism by Gloria Contreras; Lies and History: Unmasking Academic Complacency by David Warren Saxe; The Wisdom of Experience and Practice by Mary E. Haas; Inquiry Teaching and Learning: Is there, was there, a Cutting Edge in Social Studies? Or, My Life as an 'Inquiry' Social Studies Teacher by Jack Zevin; and Leveraging Technology for Student Inquiry: Technology in the New Social Studies and Today by Meghan McGlinn Manfra.

Teaching Psychology 14-19 - first published as Teaching Post-16 Psychology - is a core text for all training psychology teachers, as well as experienced teachers engaged in further study and professional development. Taking a reflective approach, Matt Jarvis explores key issues and debates against a backdrop of research and theory, and provides guidance on practical ideas intended to make life in the psychology classroom easier. With an emphasis on the application of psychology to teaching psychology, it clearly and comprehensively covers the knowledge essential to develop as a successful teacher. Key issues considered include: The appeal of psychology and what the subject can offer students The psychology curriculum and advice on how to choose a syllabus Principles of effective teaching and learning Teaching psychological thinking Differentiated psychology teaching Choosing and developing resources Using technology effectively. With a new chapter exploring the role of practical work in the post-coursework era, this second edition considers psychology teaching across the 14-19 age range and has been updated in light of the latest research, policy and practice in the field. Teaching Psychology 14-19 is an essential text for all those engaged in enhancing their understanding of teaching psychology in the secondary school.

With the stress on career orientation in the early levels of education, this bibliography will be welcomed by educators as a basic guide to career education materials appropriate for elementary school students. The Career Index is intended for teachers, librarians, guidance counselors, and students from kindergarten through sixth grade. This annotatated listing of 1,066 print and nonprint items includes fictional, bigraphical, and poetic as well as nonfictional works focusing on materials for self-awareness and career awareness. RQ This reference work is designed to help teachers, librarians, guidance counselors, parents, and students identify materials to increase career awareness at the kindergarten through sixth grade level. The annotated bibliography covers primarily recent works, published since 1970, that can offer career information for both children and young adults. In addition to the general or collective works that appear, the compiler, acknowledging the inspirational role biographies can play in career education, has included such works in the bibliography. The only exception is sports biographies, which, due to their sheer number, had to be excluded. The volume is organized by career or vocation, with general eerks listed at the beginning of each chapter. Throughout each category and subcategory, entries are listed alphabetically, with cross-references at the end of each chapter dealing with subject overlaps. Entries consist of the essential bibliographic information for each work, an approximate grade-range recommendation, a brief annotation, and a key to note the inclusion of indexes, photographs, appendices, etc. A group of separate indexes are also included, which classify the information according to author, biographie, and subject area. This unique reference book will be an important source for career education courses, as well as a valuable addition to elementary school libraries and those college libraries associated with teacher training.

The term ?moral? has had a chequered history in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due to the legacy of colonialism and Apartheid (in South Africa). In contrast to moral education as a vehicle of cultural imperialism and social control, this volume shows moral education to be concerned with both private and public morality, with communal and national relationships between human beings, as well as between people and their environment. Drawing on distinctive perspectives from philosophy, economics, sociology and education, it offers the African ethic of Ubuntu/Botho as a plausible alternative to Western approaches to morality and shows how African ethics speaks to political and economic life, including ethnic conflict and HIV/AIDS, and may be an antidote to the current practice of timocracy that values money over people.

The volume provides sociological tools for understanding the lived morality of those marginalised by poverty, and analyses the effects of culture, religion and modern secularisation on moral education. With contributions from fourteen African scholars, this book challenges dominant frameworks, and begins conversations for mutual benefit across the North-South divide. It has global implications, not just, but especially, where moral education is undertaken in pluralist contexts and in the presence of economic disparity.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Moral Education.

Edexcel's own resources for the new GCSE 2009 specification. Developed to complement the brand-new specification, this Student Book for Edexcel GCSE Psychology features an ongoing, continuous focus on assessment. Written by a team of experienced examiners and subject experts, including Christine Brain, Julia Russell and Karren Smith, it features an engaging design and layout that will appeal to students of all abilities. A range of activities throughout allow students to work and progress at a pace entirely individual to them. Examzone sections at the end of each unit include examiner hints, graded mock-exam answers, and dedicated revision sections.

"Adults squirm when the big questions come up, especially the big spiritual ones. They don't want their kids to worry, so they give answers that all say one thing: 'Don't worry. It's all okay.'
"And yet the big questions still keep coming up. At every age we all need to know what life is really all about. Not just on the surface, but deep down.
"Teenagers are no exception. They deserve a spiritual life all their own. One that offers the kind of comfort we hope to give our children, but is different at the same time. More full of ideas. More mature. More fitting for the whole wide future that lies ahead.
"That's what I've tried to do in this book, as fully and as honestly as possible."
-- "Deepak Chopra"

Text, anecdotes, and activities direct the reader to explore and practice honesty, kindness, empathy, integrity, tolerance, and more.

Celebrate the details that make your family special with this simple and inclusive activity book. Clear instructions show you how to create a family tree that works for you. A unique first record of forever memories, this book is for all families. Inclusive templates for adopted children, solo children and blended families. Your family, your rules!

The Little Library Life Skills Kit is an updated, OBE version of The Little Library Reading Kit. The Reading Kit, which is well known and much loved by teachers, has been successfully used in schools for the last 10 years. The Kit contains 60 readers (five copies of 12 story books), plus a big book of each story for class reading, 12 colourful posters and this new Teacher's Guide which provides helpful ideas for teaching each story. It keeps eight of the best stories from the Reading Kit and introduces four new ones - all of them trialled in classrooms around the country. The Kit is a wonderful resource for Foundation Phase teachers. This brand-new Teacher's Guide has the following features: preparation and teaching ideas for each story Learning Outcomes and cross-curricular links activity pages that you can photocopy a translation of each story in all the official languages"