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Inside-Out covers topics such as using topographic maps to better understand landforms, exploring the physical landscape of a local area, learning how water sustains biological organisms, and discovering the relationship between soil conditions and local flora - employing both field- and classroom-based lessons to convey important environmental science concepts.

Based on extensive research, this highly readable book explores a wide range of recommended titles that cover a spectrum of developmental stages for readers of chapter books to young adult novels. It presents novels around popular themes and features guest voices that include innovative teachers, librarians, booksellers and students. Numerous activities and literacy events form the core of this valuable resource. Reproducible pages include response activities, reflection tools, assessment profiles and inventories for easy classroom use. Committed to nurturing the love of reading, the book invites readers to dig deeper in their understanding and appreciation of books by responding through writing, discussion, the arts, media and more.

Effective vocabulary instruction is particularly vital in the content areas, where the specialised language used by 'insiders' often creates a barrier to understanding for those new to the subjects. In Inside Words, Janet Allen merges recent research and key content-area teaching strategies to show teachers how to help students understand the academic vocabulary found in textbooks, tests, articles and other informational texts. The instructional tools in the book are presented alphabetically and offer support in these key areas: building background knowledge; teaching words that are critical to comprehension; providing guidance during reading and writing; developing a conceptual framework; and assessing students' understanding of words and concepts.

When students take ownership of learning, they achieve at high levels. Filled with practical examples and step-by-step guidelines, Students Taking Charge shows educators how to design innovative learning environments that engage students, build greater responsibility in the classroom, use technology to aid learning and raise academic rigour.

James Popham has helped hundreds of educators in all kinds of schools turn formative assessment theory into everyday practice. Now you can benefit from his approach to implementing formative assessment in all year levels and subjects. Instead of focusing on checklists and data-gathering techniques, Popham explains how to take on what really matters most in the formative assessment process, including: What kinds of assessment tools to use in your instruction; When and how often to collect evidence of student learning; Which items and how many to include in an assessment; and many more. Teacher comments bolster the author’s advice with clear illustrations of the kind of thinking and planning that ensures you teach more effectively.

Investigate Maths facts and operations, identify patterns, generalise about number relationships in this great series. Rekindle enthusiasm for maths with these thought-provoking activities. These maths problems will challenge your students to examine number relationships, maths facts and operations from different angles.

The Brigance Screens III offer developmental screening of children from infancy to year one. The Screens III support the efforts of early childhood educators and others working with children to identify potential developmental delays, as well as giftedness, and inform instruction and monitor child progress. This Brigance Screens III Box of Materials contains items needed for administering the F & 1 Screens III with children in the quickest and simplest fashion. It includes: Pencil, Identical objects (12) for sorting and manipulation, Shapes (circles and squares) of two colours (16). The Brigance Screens III Box of Materials is the handy toolkit containing all you need to administer these comprehensive and unique screening instruments with children in the easiest and most painless way possible. Please note as this product contains some items unsuitable for children under 3 years old, please do not give to children unsupervised.

The Brigance Screens III offer developmental screening of children from infancy to year one. The Screens III support the efforts of early childhood educators and others working with children to identify potential developmental delays, as well as giftedness, and inform instruction and monitor child progress. This Brigance Screens III Box of Materials contains items needed for administering the 3-5 Year Old Screens III with children in the quickest and simplest fashion. It includes: Pencil, Coloured blocks(10), Shapes (circles and squares) of two colours (16). The Brigance Screens III Box of Materials is the handy toolkit containing all you need to administer these comprehensive and unique screening instruments with children in the easiest and most painless way possible. Please note as this product contains some items unsuitable for children under 3 years old, please do not give to children unsupervised.

The Brigance: Screens III Bundle 3-5 Years is designed to be used by all persons engaged in Early Childhood Education from 3-5 years. If used correctly, screens and assessments will produce valid results, enabling identification of a child’s developmental age and suggest appropriate interventions to help improve skills across a wide range of domains, ensuring all children are ‘school ready’. This bundle contains: Brigance: Screens III: Screen 3-5 Years (CA14296),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 3-Year-Old (CA14308),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 4-Year-Old (CA14310),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 5-Year-Old (CA14312) and Brigance: Screens III: Technical Report (CA14300).

You may be able to design creative, compelling lessons. But if your classroom is chaotic or its inhabitants are disrespectful, your students will not be learning well. And you will be anywhere from dissatisfied to miserable! Kim Campbell knows the ins and outs of classroom management. She's a real, live, practising middle years teacher with a great gift of humour, a straight-talking approach and a parade of 12- to 15-year-old culturally mixed students to keep her honest. This is her story of what works, what doesn’t and what she’s learned from her students, parents and colleagues. In the manner of a teacher having a chat with another teacher, Kim shares strategies, stories and ideas for how to stop creating behaviour and management problems yourself, and more.

Standards, curricula and assessment have been built and rebuilt to provide excellence and achievement. Now we're faced with the one variable that can turn all this effort into ash: the students. Navigate the hot topic of student engagement with a true expert. The author explores the many factors involved in bringing out the best in students, such as relationships, emotions, environment and expectations. Discover how to create an environment in which students feel confident and safe enough to take risks, make mistakes and immerse themselves in learning experiences. Above all, become empowered to demand an authentic joy for learning in your classroom.

This bundle will allow screening of children from 5-6 years to determine their developmental age. Based on the results of the screen children can be assessed at a deeper level using the IED III. Interventions can then be introduced using the Readiness Activities. Once the interventions are complete, children can be re-screened to determine growth in developmental age and to ascertain if further interventions or referrals are required. Examples of persons who might use this kit include but are not limited to Maternal Health Nurses, Doctors, Paediatricians, Kindergarten and Early Childhood teachers and Child Care workers. A degree in Psychology is not required to administer either the Screens III or the IED III.