This is a timely book, enabling teachers to reflect critically upon their existing work-place practices, which have been so powerfully shaped by the target culture and the logic of performativity that has underpinned it for two decades. More importantly it will empower primary school teachers to play a more active role in effecting curriculum and pedagogical change in their schools and classrooms." Professor John Elliot, School of Education, University of East Anglia, UK This book encourages you to question the existing culture of schooling, its principles and practices. Current practices have been shaped and dominated by a target led and outcomes driven agenda. The book addresses some of the conflicts that arise in the demand for performance on the one hand and teachers' responsiveness to children and their learning on the other. Sue Cox sets out to show how change might be based on clear understandings of how children learn and how teachers contribute to that learning. She does this by providing frameworks for change and shows how, from these perspectives, participation is key to children's learning. She then goes on to explore the implications for teachers working collaboratively with children in areas such as interaction, curriculum and assessment. An underlying aim of the book is to provide the tools for teachers to develop a principled approach to what they do and how they think in order to challenge some entrenched practices and thinking. This book provides thoughtful reading and promotes reflective thinking for primary teachers, teachers in training and researchers with insight into new ways of thinking about and developing primary education.
Breastfeeding with Confidence is a practical guide to breastfeeding designed to take the mystery out of the process and provide new mothers with the practical skills and insights they need to be successful. Author Sue Cox explains both the art and the method of breastfeeding, and addresses the fact that making milk comes naturally, but breastfeeding is a learned skill. When many mothers-to-be are asked if they'll breastfeed, they often answer, "I will if I can." Cox counters that answer proactively and positively with information, advice, support, resources and encouragement for new mothers. Breastfeeding with Confidence provides: - Accessible information in an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand format - Answers to any questions mothers could have about breastfeeding - Illustrations to help mothers with how to position their baby - Symbols that label key information (the key symbol highlights pointers to becoming a skillful and loving mother, the male symbol indicates items that may particularly interest the father, the apple symbol denotes healthy actions, and the cross symbol is for emergency aid.) - Work pages for mothers to take notes and track progress - Helpful "things to do" suggestions as a proactive approach to solving problems - Stories and comments from breastfeeding mothers, with lots of reassuring advice and information. iParenting Media Awards 2007 Excellent Product Winner: Parenting USABookNews.com 2006 Finalist: Parenting/Family: Pregnancy & Childbirth
Breastfeeding with Confidence is a practical guide to breastfeeding designed to take the mystery out of the process and provide new mothers with the practical skills and insights they need to be successful. Author Sue Cox explains both the art and the method of breastfeeding, and addresses the fact that making milk comes naturally, but breastfeeding is a learned skill. When many mothers-to-be are asked if they'll breastfeed, they often answer, "I will if I can." Cox counters that answer proactively and positively with information, advice, support, resources and encouragement for new mothers. Breastfeeding with Confidence provides: - Accessible information in an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand format - Answers to any questions mothers could have about breastfeeding - Illustrations to help mothers with how to position their baby - Symbols that label key information (the key symbol highlights pointers to becoming a skillful and loving mother, the male symbol indicates items that may particularly interest the father, the apple symbol denotes healthy actions, and the cross symbol is for emergency aid.) - Work pages for mothers to take notes and track progress - Helpful "things to do" suggestions as a proactive approach to solving problems - Stories and comments from breastfeeding mothers, with lots of reassuring advice and information. iParenting Media Awards 2007 Excellent Product Winner: Parenting USABookNews.com 2006 Finalist: Parenting/Family: Pregnancy & Childbirth
Lord Cockburn cleared his throat. All I could remember were his last words, `¿ transported beyond the seas for seven years ¿¿ Time stopped as I tried to concentrate on those words. I think I cried out. My dreams of returning home were shattered into a million pieces ¿ Jeannie, a doughty Scots lass, is convicted of crimes she did not commit and transported from her beloved lowland Scottish countryside. She endures four gruelling months sailing to ¿demon¿s land¿ and has to deal with the heartbreak of leaving all she knew and loved for a fearful, far-away unknown. Her new life of servitude is filled with long hours of physical toil and emotional suffering. But Jeannie has an inner resilience and a strength born out of new friendÂships that will see her survive and create a life in Van Diemen¿s Land. This is a harrowing tale of incarceration, sentencing, transportation and servitude; a story of fortitude and perseverance, binding friendships and a mother¿s love.¿ a tough and authentic book that ¿ illuminates the saga of white settlement in Australia through its focus on a single woman.¿Ian Heads, OAM, author & historian
Next to the common cold, cystitis is the leading cause of absenteeism among working women. Now, an experienced woman obstetrician/gynecologist explains in sympathetic and easy-to-understand language the causes, symptoms and treatments of cystitis.
This book is designed to help new parents understand the essential keys to unlocking the mysteries of breastfeeding and parenting. The book provides new parents all the beginning skills needed to both breastfeed and parent their new infant.
A great practical guide for CPD leadership in schools! Includes CD-Rom! `This toolkit will be a boon to those starting out in the CPD role and offers useful resources to those more experienced practitioners looking for ideas′ - Professional Development Today `′Sue Kelly rightly perceives that although theories of CPD are important, the co-ordinator′s job is very much about practicalities. She succeeds very well in showing how it can be done - starting from self evaluation, moving into ways of presenting its importance and then on to ways of planning and organising staff development. Her chapter on evaluating the impact of CPD is particularly good′ - Gerald Haigh, Times Educational Supplement Magazine `Sue Kelly writes from the perspective of an assistant headteacher with responsibility for CPD. You can be sure that this is a resource that has grown from experience, expertise and values that have been tested...Investing in Sue Kelly′s book and the CD that accompanies it could turn out to have been a best buy′- CPD Update `Written in an engaging and user-friendly style, this is an invaluable guide for staff development coordinators, both novice and experienced, as they endeavour to lead and manage CPD. It is refreshing to read a school practitioner writing about her own school′s practice with such commitment and passion′ - Professor Peter Earley, London Centre for Leadership in Learning, Institute of Education, University of London This step-by-step guide is ideal for newly appointed CPD Co-ordinators, and is also a time-saving resource for anyone with responsibility for CPD. It clearly explains the requirements of the CPD Co-ordinator role and includes a CD-rom packed with useful resources to help implement effective practice, such as: - a self-evaluation tool, to identify areas needing action - a ready-made PowerPoint presentation to communicate your role & approaches - a staff development planner, to support a strategic approach to CPD planning It advises on how to assess your school′s development needs, engage all staff, get middle leaders and the Senior Leadership Group on board and boost morale. There is clear guidance on how to observe colleagues for development, and how to conduct an exemplary NQT induction programme. Its highly practical approach makes this book a must-read for all CPD Co-ordinators in primary, secondary and special schools. It will also enhance approaches to CPD in colleges and other educational institutions, and provide food for thought for everyone charged with the responsibility of developing staff. Sue Kelly is Assistant Headteacher of Millais School in Horsham.
A comprehensive guide to all aspects of office health and safety management, ranging from legal requirements to safety culture. This book provides appropriate background knowledge, practical information and office-based examples on an increasing number of health and safety issues that are pertinent to the office. Presented in an accessible format, this book should enable the reader to provide solutions to particular health and safety problems that arise on a daily basis and formulate and maintain an appropriate health and safety management system for their office. An invaluable health and safety resource for the busy office manager and health and safety adviser.
This teachers guide is designed to accompany a series of posters developed through the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources Education Initiative, a cooperative effort between public and private education interests. It provides teacher guidance, background information, suggestions for a variety of classroom activities, and supplemental resource lists, and offers a systematic framework for including water resources education into existing curricula and for applying this curriculum to emerging national standards. The posters treated in this volume include: (1) "Water: The Resource That Gets Used & Used & Used for Everything"; (2) "How Do We Treat Our Wastewater?"; and (3) "Wetlands: Water, Wildlife, Plants & People". Although designed for grades 3 to 8, these posters can complement water topics in any grade. (JRH)
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