A critical text on feedback and assessment for all teacher educators.Feedback can be key to learning, but its potential value is not always fulfilled in practice. Developing a more nuanced understanding of feedback is particularly crucial in the ITE sector where ITE students receive feedback as learners but also give feedback to their pupils, and teacher educators need to provide feedback to their students and also guide them to give effective feedback to their pup...

After Polly ends her relationship with the father of her young son, Louis, she is determined to move on. All she wants is to focus on her job, her friends and to be a good mum. No more looking over her shoulder. No more complications… Then Polly meets Ben. Ben is guardian to his niece, Emily. They become close, with Polly teaching Ben how to plait Emily’s hair and Ben playing football with Louis. Their friendship is unexpected. Polly has never been happier. But just as Polly thinks her lif...

January Wild loves her daughter, her dog Spud and her childhood home by the sea. Single parenting is tough, but January has no regrets. She has a job she adores, a happy home, and the support of her beloved grandfather. But the arrival of a new boss threatens to shake up January’s safe world. Ward Metcalfe loves great sales results and a well-run office. Everyone at the office agrees: Ward is a soulless, corporate slave driver. Even Spud, the company mascot, dislikes him. Yet over time Jan...

The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles, including Marc Antony, Fulvia was not content to play the usual background role that was expected of a wife - instead she challenged the Roman patriarchy and sought to increase her influence in the face of determined opposition.It's rare to know so much about a particular Roman woman, but Fulvia was so ...

Too Proud to Lead provides essential advice on how to avoid hubristic behavior that can endanger businesses, as well as cope with arrogant overconfidence in others in the workplace.Laying out the dangers of arrogant overconfidence for both individuals and organizations, Too Proud To Lead explores the economic and psychological costs of hubristic behavior and argues for a new approach to leadership in order to avoid the pitfalls of hubris. Punctuat...

One step can change everything... Cass Brooks wishes she could turn back time. She'd go back to that morning and retrace her steps. Her boyfriend would still be with her. Her mother wouldn't be nagging her to plan a new future when all she wants is her old life back. Everything seems out of reach. But when Ticket, the most intelligent and devoted golden Labrador, bursts into Cass's life and chooses her, she dares to dream that she can be happy again. Then on a flight she sits next to Charl...

Epinal. Dans la chambre d’un hôpital. Séverine regarde mourir un homme dont elle ne sait rien sinon qu’il est son père. Un père volage qui l’a quittée, elle n’avait pas deux ans. Parfois la mort est lente à venir et laisse du temps. À travers la Lorraine, Séverine enquête, à la recherche de son enfance, d’une maison, d’une photo, d’un souvenir, de quelques traits d’un visage, avant qu’il ne disparaisse à jamais ; il était musicien, presque virtuose, il n’est pas mort à la guerre comme on l...

Vous vous rencontrez dans une pâtisserie. Vous vous souriez. Vous avez vingt ans. Vous vous appelez Antoine et Cécile. Les années soixante s’achèvent. Un amour commence. Très vite, il faut vous défendre contre la rouille des jours et les pièges des métiers, les vrais métiers qui dévorent et les faux qui rejettent. Vous tentez d’ouvrir des portes nouvelles et laissez de toutes vos forces entrebâillées les anciennes. Vous n’avez du temps qui passe d’autres repères que les chansons qui change...

« Je m’appelle Éléonore. C’est aujourd’hui la nuit des mots. Ceux qu’on écrit pour ne pas mourir... Joël. Quatre lettres en filigrane traçant des courbes dans ma main : ligne de vie, ligne d’amour, ligne de mort. Joël poursuivi coûte que coûte avec application, mot après mot, jour après jour, soleil après soleil, comme un devoir d’écolière. Joël aujourd’hui du bonheur qui n’est plus. Joël des rires, disparus. Joël des larmes qui sont venues. Joël que je récite sans fautes, que je résume à ...