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This guide provides user friendly advice and support for those currently involved with open learning and those considering it for the first time.

There has been a growth in the number of teachers involved in teaching English as a foreign or second language. This handbook contains practical suggestions for EFL teachers, and aims to lead to ideas which can be tried out at once. Lists of useful resources and pro-formas are included.

This manual provides practical advice and tips on dealing with aspects of the primary teacher's role, from classroom organization to professional development.

This text provides practical advice and support for people involved in working with children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). It takes a broad-based approach, aiming to combine pragmatic advice with theoretical underpinning, to provide SEN and classroom teachers with insight into support.

This updated text takes account of the changes that have occurred through technological advances, and has sections to cover ICT in the classroom. It is suitable for both new and experienced teachers in primary, further and higher education.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has been the focus of much debate and development within education, especially in the primary sector. This text offers tried and tested ideas for using IT effectively across the whole primary

Providing practical, user-friendly advice and support for educators and trainers, this book offers tips on broad topic categories such as: Creative thinking, problems in groups, virtual environment for group learning, feedback mechanisms, dealing with conflict, gender issues in group work and many more.

This text offers researchers practical hints and advice as well as support/guidance in planning, carrying out, writing up and publishing research findings. Topics covered include: information handling; time and self-management; writing; dealing with others; and publishing and profile.

Schools now have to prove that they are effective learning organizations. To achieve this, management competences must evolve at the same time as staff development and training. This text provides useful tips covering all aspects of school management and individual effectiveness.

This handbook seeks to provide practical, realistic suggestions about how quality can be measured, maintained and improved in institutions. It is addressed to a cross-section of staff who make up colleges and universities, not just those responsible for quality audit.

This practical book aims to help teachers and lecturers to exploit the full potential of IT in teaching. From the fundamentals, such as buying the right computer, through to desktop publishing, databases and the law, it offers user-friendly advice and support.

This is one of the texts in a series designed to provide engineering students in colleges and universities with a mathematical toolkit. The mathematics is developed and applied in an engineering context with worked examples and problems, all with answers being supplied,

A study that considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period - Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore. It examines four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology, and textual experimentation.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

During the past decade, a rising interest has emerged in aspects of the broad construct of executive function (EF) in childhood. This has transpired as research has discovered that the development of EF is particularly rapid during early childhood, and that the healthy development of EF appears to play a key role in children’s developing social competence and academic and social readiness to attend school. The articles presented in this special issue help advance our understanding of the development of EF, as well as the challenges researchers face when attempting to characterize an aspect of cognition in very young children. Ultimately, this special issue illuminates the many ways in which children come to exhibit age-appropriate levels of social and cognitive competence.