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Perhaps our biggest failure with student teachers is in not preparing them adequately for the emotional pressures on them and for the way their own emotional responses will help determine their reactions and behaviour in the classroom. However much I…

No book is ever written on one’s own. There are many people I wish
to thank for helping me complete it.
First and foremost there is my dear departed friend Carol Kennedy,
who died of cancer in early 2007 and to whom this book is dedicated.
A…

I T HAS BECOME a cliché to say that education is in “crisis.” But it is true: A deep sense of crisis pervades discussions of education in the United States. Perhaps most distressingly, the crisis appears to be chronic. Reports in the mass media,…

Every newspaper has its own style book, a set of rules telling
journalists whether to write e-mail or email, Gadaffi or Qaddafi ,
judgement or judgment. The Economist’s style book does this and a bit
more. It also warns writers of some common…

Preparing those who work with our youngest and most receptive learners to be competent practitioners and reflective professionals is the most important
challenge in Education. These young minds and tiny hands deserve the best that a…

The purpose of the questionnaire is to highlight those areas of study skills in which pupils lack confidence. Most pupils will know which aspects of their work could be improved.
As students move through the key stages, pressure on their time…

The School Psychologist test assesses understanding of key concepts that school psychologists need to know
in order to do their jobs. In developing assessment material for this test, Educational Testing Service (ETS)
worked in collaboration with…

Over the past two decades or so, a steady
fl ow of packaging source books has published many hundreds of ready-to-use templates (called ‘nets’) for a broad range of cartons, boxes and trays.

The intention of this publication is to embark on a journey taking the reader through a brief history of buildings, how the construction of buildings has evolved over the years and then examining in more detail the structure of buildings and their…

A structure is an assembly of interrelated components that serve a common purpose. Structure may present itself with a hierarchy of components as in the structure of a corporation or rely on the patterns and relationships between similar components…