Training courses - both pre-service and in-service - tend to concentrate, for obvious reasons, on such matters as subject teaching, lesson preparation and assessment. But teachers working in schools find they have to deal with much else besides that. This book shows what is required to become a rounded professional.

Product Description: Cambridge Collections includes short story and non-fiction collections as well as themed, mixed-genre anthologies. Each title is designed to excite students' interest and introduce them to a wide variety of genres, styles and voices...read more

Product Description: This anthology offers a richly diverse and thought-provoking collection of non-fiction texts. All are informative - but they are also, by turns, entertaining, eye-opening, challenging, inspiring and poetic. The texts are arranged in five themed sections: The world around us; The world of work; Science; Parents and children; and Human rights and wrongs...read more

Product Description: At the core of every subject teacher's role is the task of being a tutor. The authors provide an accessible and realistic guide to this vital role based on many years of headship and pastoral care experience. Brimming with practical suggestions and innovative ideas, this guide covers topics such as managing tutorial sessions, relating to families, dealing with bullying, and getting to know your pupils, the book brings together the deeper aims of pastoral care with the daily routines and demands of school life...read more

Product Description: John Eggleston’s influence on education is still felt today. In his radical research project for the British Schools Council in the 1970s, he changed the school subject of Craft forever, shaping it into the subject of Design and Technology as now taught in the national curriculum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This revised edition has practical advice about how to create the best conditions, and how to relate to students. It takes into account the new Professional Standard for Qualified Teachers; the KS3 strategy; whole school curriculum planning; and literacy, Citizenship and ICT across the curriculum.

Suitable for the compulsory media aspect of the National Curriculum, this anthology contains high-quality texts to enjoy, discuss and evaluate, taken from newspapers, magazines, advertising, radio, television and film.

First encounters with Shakespeare's plays

This collection of complete short stories brings together two best-selling genres - crime writing and horror fiction. Classic names rub shoulders with contemporary writers, providing starting-points for comparing characters, language and style.

Pre-1900 and modern writers are compared and contrasted in pairs. Authors include: D.H. Lawrence, V.S. Naipaul, Penelope Lively, Doris Lessing, Susan Hill, Graham Greene, Edgar Allan Poe, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens and others. Paperback 160pp

Product Description: This volume is part of the "Longman Imprint Books" series of fiction and non-fiction writing. The series features writers from a range of centuries and cultures and each book has additional study materials for speaking, listening, reading and writing.

This is a Longman Imprint Book, one of a series of short stories, plays and novels from today's major authors. The books are designed to be accessible to a wide range of students and they contain assignments and detailed help for wider reading.

Contains a varied selection of writings by Christy Brown, Buchi Emecheta, Beryl Bainbridge, Clifford Dyment, Paul Bailey, J.B. Priestley, William Cooper, Roald Dahl, Sylvia Haymon, Beryl Markham, Laurie Lee, Redmond O'Hanlon, Leena Dhingra and Gracie Nichols.