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Detention

A rookie teacher. The toughest prison school in Australia.

by Ralph Jackman ...

A powerful and moving memoir about how the youth detention system is letting down our most desperate and damaged kids, and how one rookie teacher fought the system on their behalf. Explosive, heart-breaking, inspiring.'Honest and courageous ... This book is the report card we've all known was coming.' Gabbie Stroud, bestselling author of TeacherWhat happens when your first teaching job isn't in a ... Read more

$12.99 AUD

A powerful and moving memoir about how the youth detention system is letting down our most desperate and damaged kids, and how one rookie teacher fought the system on their behalf. Explosive, heart-breaking, inspiring.'Honest and courageous ... This book is the report card we've all known was coming.' Gabbie Stroud, bestselling author of TeacherWhat happens when your first teaching job isn't in a
... Read more
Running the Room: The Teacher’s Guide to Behaviour

by Tom Bennett ...

Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, safe spaces where everyone is treated with dignity. Creating that space is one of the most important things a teacher needs to be able to do. But all too often teachers begin their careers with the bare minimum of training – or worse, none. How students behave, socially and academically, dictates ... Read more

$25.99 AUD

Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, safe spaces where everyone is treated with dignity. Creating that space is one of the most important things a teacher needs to be able to do. But all too often teachers begin their careers with the bare minimum of training – or worse, none. How students behave, socially and academically, dictates
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Youth Culture Power

A #HipHopEd Guide to Building Teacher-Student Relationships and Increasing Student Engagement

by Jason Rawls, John Robinson ...

Series Book 1 - Hip-Hop Education
In our schools, hip-hop culture is the dominant culture among the students. In Youth Culture Power: A #HipHopEd Guide to Building Teacher-Student Relationships and Increasing Student Engagement, Jason D. Rawls and John Robinson, educators and hip-hop artists with experience in the urban classrooms, focus their efforts through Hip-Hop Based Education (HHBE). They argue that hip-hop culture could be ... Read more

$38.99 AUD

In our schools, hip-hop culture is the dominant culture among the students. In Youth Culture Power: A #HipHopEd Guide to Building Teacher-Student Relationships and Increasing Student Engagement, Jason D. Rawls and John Robinson, educators and hip-hop artists with experience in the urban classrooms, focus their efforts through Hip-Hop Based Education (HHBE). They argue that hip-hop culture could be
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How to be an Academic

The thesis whisperer reveals all

by Dr Inger Mewburn ...

Welcome to the world of university academics, where the Academic Hunger Games, fuelled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life needn't be so grim.A veteran of the university 'gig economy', Mewburn aka The Thesis Whisperer is perfectly placed to reflect on her ... Read more

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Welcome to the world of university academics, where the Academic Hunger Games, fuelled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life needn't be so grim.A veteran of the university 'gig economy', Mewburn aka The Thesis Whisperer is perfectly placed to reflect on her
... Read more
Leading Positive Classrooms

Adopting an educative approach to behaviour management in schools

by Dr Christopher Hudson ...

In a time where Australian classrooms are grappling with a rising tide of student misbehaviour exacerbated by a looming teacher shortage, this book emerges as a beacon of change. Dr Christopher Hudson challenges the archaic disciplinarian approach, urging educators to evolve with the times and view behaviour as a skill to be taught, modelled and practised.Leading Positive Classrooms makes a ... Read more

$31.99 AUD

In a time where Australian classrooms are grappling with a rising tide of student misbehaviour exacerbated by a looming teacher shortage, this book emerges as a beacon of change. Dr Christopher Hudson challenges the archaic disciplinarian approach, urging educators to evolve with the times and view behaviour as a skill to be taught, modelled and practised.Leading Positive Classrooms makes a
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Growth Mindset for Teachers

Growing learners in the classroom

Edited by Sherria Hoskins ...

Series series Corwin Ltd
Growth Mindsets are recognized as a powerful teaching and learning tool. To avoid misunderstanding, misuse or oversimplification, this new book explores what Mindsets are, what they are not and how effective use of them can support and enhance learning and teaching. It takes a focused look at whether a more general approach to mindsets for all learning in the classroom is more effective than a ... Read more

$88.10 AUD

Growth Mindsets are recognized as a powerful teaching and learning tool. To avoid misunderstanding, misuse or oversimplification, this new book explores what Mindsets are, what they are not and how effective use of them can support and enhance learning and teaching. It takes a focused look at whether a more general approach to mindsets for all learning in the classroom is more effective than a
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Transformative Assessment in Action

An Inside Look at Applying the Process

by W. James Popham ...

In this follow-up to the best-selling Transformative Assessment, W. James Popham takes you inside the classrooms—and inside the heads—of teachers who are using the formative assessment process to improve student learning.Instead of providing yet another collection of data-gathering techniques, Popham focuses on the real challenge of formative assessment: the decisions involved in its planning and ... Read more

Was $49.99 AUD Now $44.99 AUD

In this follow-up to the best-selling Transformative Assessment, W. James Popham takes you inside the classrooms—and inside the heads—of teachers who are using the formative assessment process to improve student learning.Instead of providing yet another collection of data-gathering techniques, Popham focuses on the real challenge of formative assessment: the decisions involved in its planning and
... Read more
An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education

Edited by Rebecca Rogers ...

Accessible yet theoretically rich, this landmark text introduces key concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis and situates these within the field of educational research. The book invites readers to consider the theories and methods of three major traditions in critical discourse studies – discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis -- through the ... Read more

$118.83 AUD

Accessible yet theoretically rich, this landmark text introduces key concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis and situates these within the field of educational research. The book invites readers to consider the theories and methods of three major traditions in critical discourse studies – discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis -- through the
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Learning Outdoors

Improving the Quality of Young Children's Play Outdoors

by Maggie Woonton ...

It is now officially acknowledged that outdoor play is extremely important for young children's development and that a few old bikes and a climbing frame just will not do. This book shows how to develop an outdoor learning environment properly for young children and how adult supporters should behave in this space.This book offers examples of good ... Read more

$74.07 AUD

It is now officially acknowledged that outdoor play is extremely important for young children's development and that a few old bikes and a climbing frame just will not do. This book shows how to develop an outdoor learning environment properly for young children and how adult supporters should behave in this space.This book offers examples of good
... Read more
She Comes First

The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

by Ian Kerner ...

Series series Kerner
"She Comes First is quite simply the best guide to oral sex out there." —AskMen.comThe essential guidebook to oral sex, She Comes First offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring womenAs women everywhere will attest, men are "ill-cliterate." But in the pages of this must-read sex guide, the mystery of female satisfaction is solved, and the tongue is proven mightier than the sword. According to ... Read more

$15.99 AUD

"She Comes First is quite simply the best guide to oral sex out there." —AskMen.comThe essential guidebook to oral sex, She Comes First offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring womenAs women everywhere will attest, men are "ill-cliterate." But in the pages of this must-read sex guide, the mystery of female satisfaction is solved, and the tongue is proven mightier than the sword. According to
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How to Approach Learning

What teachers and students should know about succeeding in school

by Fiona McPherson ...

Series Book 0 - Study Skills
Academic success is rooted in a number of factors, of which 'intelligence' is only one. Attitude and beliefs, and knowledgeable strategy use, are critical. This is the core message of this collection of articles and research reports on study skills from the author's websites, arranged and edited for greater cohesiveness. Its aim is to describe and provide evidence for concepts and strategies that ... Read more

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Academic success is rooted in a number of factors, of which 'intelligence' is only one. Attitude and beliefs, and knowledgeable strategy use, are critical. This is the core message of this collection of articles and research reports on study skills from the author's websites, arranged and edited for greater cohesiveness. Its aim is to describe and provide evidence for concepts and strategies that
... Read more
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition

An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser ...

"On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition EPB is a bible for a generation of writers looking for clues to clean, compelling prose." —New York TimesA beloved classic and the definitive volume on the art of writing nonfictionOn Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition EPB, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the w ... Read more

$13.99 AUD

"On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition EPB is a bible for a generation of writers looking for clues to clean, compelling prose." —New York TimesA beloved classic and the definitive volume on the art of writing nonfictionOn Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition EPB, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the w
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Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive

Early Years and Primary Education

Edited by Deborah Green, Deborah Price ...

Humanities and Social Science (HASS) education is integral in the development of active and informed citizens, and encourages learners to think critically, solve problems and adapt to change. Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive: Early Years and Primary Education prepares pre-service educators to become high quality HASS educators who can unlock the potential of all students. Closely ... Read more

$85.90 AUD

Humanities and Social Science (HASS) education is integral in the development of active and informed citizens, and encourages learners to think critically, solve problems and adapt to change. Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive: Early Years and Primary Education prepares pre-service educators to become high quality HASS educators who can unlock the potential of all students. Closely
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Make It Stick

The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel ...

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer ... Read more

$42.01 AUD

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer
... Read more
Writing to Learn

How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

by William Zinsser ...

$8.99 AUD
Visible Learning for Teachers

Maximizing Impact on Learning

by John Hattie ...

In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning.Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new ... Read more

$75.99 AUD

In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning.Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new
... Read more
The Dog Listener

Learning the Language of your Best Friend

by Jan Fennell ...

You’ve heard of the Horse Whisperer – now meet the woman who uses similar methods to train dogs.Jan Fennell’s remarkable gifts have earned her the nickname “the dog listener”. Her unique understanding of the canine world and its instinctive language has enabled her to bring even the most desperate and delinquent of dogs to heel.This easy-to-follow guide to understanding Jan’s simple techniques ... Read more

$6.99 AUD

You’ve heard of the Horse Whisperer – now meet the woman who uses similar methods to train dogs.Jan Fennell’s remarkable gifts have earned her the nickname “the dog listener”. Her unique understanding of the canine world and its instinctive language has enabled her to bring even the most desperate and delinquent of dogs to heel.This easy-to-follow guide to understanding Jan’s simple techniques
... Read more
Montessori from the Start

The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three

by Paula Polk Lillard, Lynn Lillard Jessen ...

Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's philosophies for nurturing babies and toddlers, this practical and useful guide is brimming with instructions, anecdotes, and encouragement for raising calm, competent, and confident children—from designing the baby’s bedroom to encouraging life skills such as dressing themselves and working both independently and collaboratively.What can parents do to help their ... Read more

$20.34 AUD

Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's philosophies for nurturing babies and toddlers, this practical and useful guide is brimming with instructions, anecdotes, and encouragement for raising calm, competent, and confident children—from designing the baby’s bedroom to encouraging life skills such as dressing themselves and working both independently and collaboratively.What can parents do to help their
... Read more
Learn German With Stories: Café In Berlin – 10 Short Stories For Beginners

Dino lernt Deutsch, #1

by André Klein ...

Series Book 1 - Dino lernt Deutsch
Newly arrived in Berlin, a young man from Sicily is thrown headlong into an unfamilar urban lifestyle of unkempt bachelor pads, evanescent romances and cosmopolitan encounters of the strangest kind. How does he manage the new language? Will he find work?Experience daily life in the German capital through the eyes of a newcomer, learn about the country and its people, and improve your German ... Read more

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Newly arrived in Berlin, a young man from Sicily is thrown headlong into an unfamilar urban lifestyle of unkempt bachelor pads, evanescent romances and cosmopolitan encounters of the strangest kind. How does he manage the new language? Will he find work?Experience daily life in the German capital through the eyes of a newcomer, learn about the country and its people, and improve your German
... Read more
Visible Learning

A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

by John Hattie ...

This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. The research involves many millions of students and represents the largest ever evidence based research into what actually works in ... Read more

$118.99 AUD

This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding. The research involves many millions of students and represents the largest ever evidence based research into what actually works in
... Read more
German Short Stories for Beginners Book 1: Over 100 Dialogues and Daily Used Phrases to Learn German in Your Car. Have Fun & Grow Your Vocabulary, with Crazy Effective Language Learning Lessons

German for Adults, #1

by Learn Like a Native ...

Series Book 1 - German for Adults
WANT TO LEARN GERMAN THE EASIEST AND MOST EXCITING WAY POSSIBLE?YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!Learning a second language is a great mental exercise if you want to create new neural pathways in your brain, so you can stay quick and sharp. Plus, learning a widely spoken language – German in particular – can open up a myriad of new opportunities for you in both life and work.One great obstacle that ... Read more

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WANT TO LEARN GERMAN THE EASIEST AND MOST EXCITING WAY POSSIBLE?YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!Learning a second language is a great mental exercise if you want to create new neural pathways in your brain, so you can stay quick and sharp. Plus, learning a widely spoken language – German in particular – can open up a myriad of new opportunities for you in both life and work.One great obstacle that
... Read more
Teacher Man

by Frank McCourt ...

A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers ‘Angela’s Ashes’ and ‘‘Tis’. In ‘Teacher Man’, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City.Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy – but who crucially had an American passport, having ... Read more

$14.99 AUD

A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers ‘Angela’s Ashes’ and ‘‘Tis’. In ‘Teacher Man’, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City.Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy – but who crucially had an American passport, having
... Read more
Spanish Short Stories for Beginners Book 1: Over 100 Dialogues and Daily Used Phrases to Learn Spanish in Your Car. Have Fun & Grow Your Vocabulary, with Crazy Effective Language Learning Lessons

Spanish for Adults, #1

by Learn Like a Native ...

Series Book 1 - Spanish for Adults
WANT TO LEARN SPANISH THE EASIEST AND MOST EXCITING WAY POSSIBLE?YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!Learning a second language is a great mental exercise if you want to create new neural pathways in your brain, so you can stay quick and sharp. Plus, learning a widely spoken language – Spanish in particular – can open up a myriad of new opportunities for you in both life and work.One great obstacle that ... Read more

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WANT TO LEARN SPANISH THE EASIEST AND MOST EXCITING WAY POSSIBLE?YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!Learning a second language is a great mental exercise if you want to create new neural pathways in your brain, so you can stay quick and sharp. Plus, learning a widely spoken language – Spanish in particular – can open up a myriad of new opportunities for you in both life and work.One great obstacle that
... Read more
Science is Golden

by Karl Kruszelnicki ...

Gold, gold, gold for Australia's mega-selling scientist's 27th book...'Nullius in verba', the Royal Society's motto, roughly translated, means  'take nobody's word for it'. Why not do the experiment for yourself and see the reality of nature. Don't trust authority - trust nature.Does cranberry juice cure urinary tract infections? Is the hookah really a safer way to smoke? Will the Large Hadron ... Read more

$10.99 AUD

Gold, gold, gold for Australia's mega-selling scientist's 27th book...'Nullius in verba', the Royal Society's motto, roughly translated, means  'take nobody's word for it'. Why not do the experiment for yourself and see the reality of nature. Don't trust authority - trust nature.Does cranberry juice cure urinary tract infections? Is the hookah really a safer way to smoke? Will the Large Hadron
... Read more

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