Positive Social Work: The Essential Toolkit for NQSWs (Critical Skills for Social Work)

Politics & Social Sciences

Adams, Julie

Sheard, Angie

Social Sciences

Critical Publishing

This book is an essential guide for all primary trainees and teachers. The text addresses the specifics of teaching English in the early years and importantly places systematic synthetic phonics within the context of early English as a whole. The book starts by examining the fundamental role of communication and language in laying the foundations for literacy development. It explores the importance of early sound discrimination, rhyme, alliteration, oral blending, and oral segmentation, as well as the importance of developing children's visual discrimination skills. The text critically examines the role of systematic synthetic phonics as an approach for teaching children to read, and its application in both reading and writing is fully covered. Other key chapters include literacy through the wider learning environment, supporting children with literacy difficulties, and assessing English in the early years.

Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics and Early English (Critical Teaching)

Education & Teaching

Glazzard, Jonathan

Stokoe, Jane

Schools & Teaching

Anti-racism has a long history within the profession of social work and its education. Despite an agenda within higher education which promotes internationalization and practice which recognizes diversity, little has been written to address the question of why black African students have a different experience from others on their social work educational journey. This book is based upon the authors' experience as educators and their own research about and with black students' experience of racism and 'otherness' within social work practice and education. Radical and honest in nature, it re-visits anti-racism within social work practice and education from a student focused and informed perspective based on lived experience and conversations. This book will be of interest to all social work students, educators and policy makers with an interest in anti-racism and diversity. It includes practical models and tried and tested tools to help the reader work through these issues.

Anti-racism in Social Work Practice (1) (Critical Approaches to Social Work)

The social work profession is in a state of flux including a change of regulator, a new College of Social Work and a new approach to CPD. There is a lot to get to grips with and social workers are now expected to take responsibility for ensuring their professional development needs are met but how to go about it? This book offers social workers the opportunity to be innovative and to take professional control in reflecting on their learning needs and achievements, and enhancing their practice. By developing a professional portfolio social workers can bring all the elements of the changing environment into a single place so that their individual practice lies at the heart of service improvement. But this is a new concept and approach for social workers so this book will help them deal with the process, provide hints, tips and guidance on constructing a portfolio in line with the PCF. It also helps guide critical reflection to support them to learn from their own practice. Evidencing CPD provides a comprehensive guide to support social workers to create and develop their own portfolio and focus on critical reflection as a learning tool for CPD activities. This timely publication is packed with examples and exercises to support personal portfolio development and is mapped to the different levels of social work progression.

Evidencing CPD: A Guide to Building your Social Work Portfolio (Critical Skills for Social Work)

Challis, Maggie

Bogg, Daisy

This is an invaluable and up to date text on inclusive practice for all primary trainees and teachers and for those working towards the National Award SEN Co-ordination. It provides a critical approach to inclusion combining both theory and practice while promoting critical thinking about the complex issues involved. Scenarios are used as the basis for unpicking major issues and provide the opportunity for learning in context, and chapter reflections encourage deep thinking about the key learning points.&nbsp;

Inclusive Primary Teaching: A critical approach to equality and special educational needs (Critical Teaching)

Goepel, Janet

Childerhouse, Helen

Sharpe, Sheila

This up-to-date book is essential reading for all those teaching or training to teach Early Years mathematics. It provides comprehensive subject and pedagogic knowledge for those responsible for the youngest children in school and their vital first experiences of learning mathematics. The appropriately focused text ensures the reader can understand and support how children learn to count and calculate, recognize shapes, and begin to generalize their findings about problems. Critical questions enable trainees and teachers to both test and develop their own understanding of mathematics, and the suggested activities clearly exemplify how theory links to practice. The book also considers recent and relevant research, examines international perspectives, and provides opportunities for reflection.

Teaching and Learning Early Years Mathematics: Subject and Pedagogic Knowledge (Critical Teaching)

Briggs, Mary

This is an essential text for primary trainees and teachers. While the focus in early reading is on systematic synthetic phonics, it is important to see the bigger picture and understand that teaching reading is a continuum that involves more much than the mechanics of reading. The book focuses on a range of issues to develop children who can read into children who do read, including extending reading with proficient readers, engaging disengaged readers, sustaining interest in reading in the transition from primary to secondary, and the importance of oracy in reading. Additionally, there is an exploration of the wider context of reading including international perspectives, new literacies and the importance of reading to personal development. Case studies and activities demonstrate practical applications with clear links to the underpinning theory, while critical reflections challenge the reader and encourage deeper thought about the chapter content.

Beyond Early Reading (Critical Teaching)

Primary School Placements: A Critical Guide to Outstanding Teaching (Critical Teaching)

Robinson, Catriona

Bingle, Branwen

Howard, Colin

This lively book provides an essential introduction to the critical analysis of social problems and the policy process. It argues that policy does not just have an impact of people's lives, but that people can and should have an impact on policy. Rather than assuming that social policies reflect an inevitable response to pre-existing givens, the author adopts a more proactive position to show how a 'problem' is fabricated and how a particular response to a 'problem' is legitimated. He goes on to demonstrate how the struggle over the meaning and desirable response to a range of social issues continues to take place not only in Parliament, but across broadcast and print media and the numerous internet channels.&nbsp; The book provides students, practitioners and activists with a rationale for and means to read, write and perform policy analysis. Drawing on the notion of policy literacy, readers will be introduced to a range of resources to enable them to further develop the ability to both read (comprehend), write (create, design, produce) and perform (influence and shape) policies. The book is illustrated throughout with examples from historical and contemporary representations of social problems and local, national and global policy making and practice. Each section will make reference to a toolkit that tutors, student and activists can access to help inform their practice. &nbsp; Presented in an accessible format, the book&nbsp; demonstrates that making sense of social issues and the policy process, also means making sense of some of the fundamental questions, values and assumptions of how is / should society be organised and our own role in the shaping of society. In this way the book not only provides practical and critical insights into the policy process, but is also an intellectually challenging and stimulating read.

What's Your Problem?: Making Sense of Social Problems and the Policy Process

Connor, Stuart

Non-directive Coaching: Attitudes, Approaches and Applications (Coaching and Mentoring)

Business & Money

Thomson Mr., Bob

Management & Leadership

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