Authors:Mary James, Paul Black, Patrick Carmichael, Colin Con
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: practice, tlrp, improving, schools, learn, tools, learning
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415400260
ISBN-13: 9780415400268

Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. This book offers a set of in-service resources to help teachers develop new classroom practices informed by sound research. It builds on previous work associated with ‘formative assessment’ or ‘assessment for learning’. However, it adds an important new dimension by taking account of the conditions within schools that are conducive to the promotion, in classrooms, of learning how to learn as an extension of assessment for learning. Among the materials included you will find: an introductory in-service session

Authors:Jan Winter, Jane Andrews, Pamela Greenhough, Martin H
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: improving, practice, tlrp, school, linking, primary, mathematics, home
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415363934
ISBN-13: 9780415363938

Improving Primary Mathematics provides primary teachers with practical ideas about how to bring these two worlds closer to improve children’s mathematics learning. Using a number of fascinating case studies focusing on children’s experiences of mathematics both inside and outside the classroom, the book asks: How do children use mathematics in their everyday lives? How can teachers use this knowledge to improve children’s learning in school? What activities can teachers use with parents to help share the ways that schools teach mathematics? What can parents do t