The TimeWise Teacher's Guide was developed as part of the TimeWise Cross-Curricular Literacy Program, which places a strong emphasis on building and activating background knowledge. The TimeWise program was created to foster connections between literacy, history, and science so that students acquire a new depth of understanding. The TimeWise Teacher's Guide includes time-period summaries, picture vocabulary cards, and book lists for each time period in American History. Each component is color-coded by time period. The colors correspond to the time period on the TimeWise Timeline for clarity and convenience. With the combined use of the TimeWise visual American History Timeline, picture vocabulary cards, and the valuable assistance of the teacher's guide, teaching literacy takes on new meaning.

The visual TimeWise American History Timeline (student size), was developed as part of the TimeWise Cross-Curricular Literacy Program, which places a strong emphasis on building and activating background knowledge. The TimeWise Program was created to foster connections between literacy, history, and science so that students acquire a new depth of understanding. The TimeWise Timeline provides a visual scene for each time period in American History. Running parallel to the history section, is a section on major inventions/ technological advances that affected way of life. This student size timeline was created as a reference tool for students to use in conjunction with the classroom size TimeWise Timeline. With the combined use of the TimeWise visual American History Timeline, picture vocabulary cards, and the valuable assistance of the teacher's guide, teaching literacy takes on new meaning.

At The MTPT Project we know that teaching can be a sustainable career choice for parents, and in this essential handbook, we show you how. Supported by case studies celebrating the best that the family friendly schools and happy teachers in our community have to offer, this book is a lifeline for both educators aspiring to combine their passion for teaching with becoming a parent, and the school leader who wants to empower them. However you become a parent, or choose to grow your family and your career, this handbook will provide you with the guidance and cheerleading that you need to fulfil your personal and professional aspirations. The book is divided into nine chapters, guiding readers from the first considerations of family planning, all the way through to the reality that some teachers and leaders may choose to leave classrooms for good. Each chapter includes: the latest research on working families legalities associated with different stages of working parenthood (including discrimination and how to avoid it as an employer and address it as an employee) case studies from our community suggestions for individuals and schools recommended further reading. Each chapter will help you to navigate the journey from planning a family, to stepping in and out of teaching to suit your parenting needs, to creating family friendly working environments, whatever your role in school. With its mixture of research-informed solutions, hints and tips, this text is perfect for colleagues embarking on their parenting journey and school leaders who want to take practical steps to retain and empower valued colleagues.

This book is a natural step beyond our earlier text A Teacher’s Guide to Assessment, which was published almost six years ago. The purpose of this book is to offer a straightforward guide to educational assessment for teachers at all levels of education, including trainers and instructors.

In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism and language mixing.

Written in a very reader-friendly style, the book is a practical introduction for parents and teachers to bilingualism. Straightforward and realistic answers are given to a comprehensive set of frequently asked questions about bilingualism and bilingual education. Areas covered include family, language, culture, identity, reading , writing, schooling and issues. In the third edition, there is new or more detailed consideration of: • Moving between countries, cultural adaptation • Identity issues • One parent - one language (OPOL) families • Pre schools / kindergartens / nursery schools • Helping with homework • Dyslexia • Language scaffolding • Multilingualism and trilingualism; trilingual families • Adoption • WWW links, articles and books for further reading