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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist
£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529063745 | ISBN 10: 1529063744
Thought-provoking, witty and completely unafraid, I Heard What You Said is a timely exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and do better by all our students. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Sharp and witty with moments of ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529114805 | ISBN 10: 1529114802
In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron. Â In those days a private boys' boarding school education was largely the same experience as it had been for generations: ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781841883335 | ISBN 10: 1841883336
Step inside one of Britain's most notorious prisons... Â During her time as a prison teacher Mim Skinner met every type of criminal. But her job was not to judge them, it was to teach. Â In this compelling, inspirational memoir Mim takes you b ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781119762935 | ISBN 10: 1119762936
A timely guide to online teaching strategies from bestselling author Doug Lemov and the Teach Like a Champion team. School closures in response to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic resulted in an immediate and universal pivot to online teaching. ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782796374 | ISBN 10: 1782796371
Is 'Romeo and Juliet' really a love story, or is it a play about young people living in dangerous circumstances? How might life under occupation produce a new reading of 'Julius Caesar'? What choices must a group of Palestinian students make, when pu ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846044830 | ISBN 10: 1846044839
It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she w ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781350102 | ISBN 10: 1781350108
The only book for teachers of students with dyslexia written by a dyslexic student teacher. Who better to help teachers support students with dyslexia than someone who is a dyslexic student teacher? The Little Book of Dyslexia references bot ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781780880518 | ISBN 10: 1780880510
Show Me the Prisoner is written from the perspective of a prison teacher who later served on the prison monitoring body. It covers a 15-year period of involvement in two of Northern Ireland’s prisons during the troubles, when terrorists hogged ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780719521270 | ISBN 10: 0719521270
Dear Ms Crossley-Holland, I didn’t Oink at you yesterday but I do admitt I did oink it was a private joke between me and Billie. Know I do Admitt I should not of been making noises so I am sorry for making noises but yeah as I said I am only sorry fo ... more
View book details£8.50 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781903080122 | ISBN 10: 1903080126
England has 25 contemporary ‘monster schools’ – of more than 2,000 students, four times as many as a decade ago. There are 263 English secondaries – twice as many as when Labour took office – of 1,500 to 2,000 students. Large schools are cost effecti ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781583228852 | ISBN 10: 1583228853
Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (L ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905399369 | ISBN 10: 1905399367
Where to find a book about teaching by a teacher? All I could find were grim behavioural manuals that all started with 'Getting The Buggers To...' or alternatively the comfort read, those nostalgic fests about a village school in the 1950s and 1960s. ... more
View book details£69.99 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781402061097 | ISBN 10: 1402061099
There is much ambivalence in women’s experience of the academy as teachers and students. Allthough today many more women follow academic careers than in the past, they do not find the welcome that they had hoped for and expected. Additionally, women ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780385494229 | ISBN 10: 038549422x
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students – whose ranks included substance abus ... more
View book details£16.95 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780674002739 | ISBN 10: 0674002733
White teacher, black children: Paley approaches this largely unexplored minefield with candor and incisiveness. In this humane and beautifully written account, the wit and sureness of her observations are compelling. Repeatedly, she uses anecdotes to ... more
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