Beginning Teaching and Beyond, third edition is a text for all student-teachers and for experienced teachers and principals who want to become effective and to renew or revitalise their teaching.

The text, which is divided into three parts, addresses these major questions:
• Part One: How might student-teachers prepare for teaching practice?
• Part Two: What approaches can student-teachers, experienced teachers and principals take to become more effective at teaching through self-improvement?
• Part T... read more

Recommended for Year 9
Curriculum Level - 4/5
Provides a systematic progression through the language one could expect Year 9 & 10 students to become familiar with. Topics are word classes, punctuation, syntax, figures of speech and language.

This Homework Book is designed to be used in conjunction with the New Zealand Mathematics and Statistics for Year 9 textbook. The aim of this Mathematics Homework Book is to assist students to become more proficient in the skills which they have learnt in class. This is done by providing carefully graded exercises with up to 6 homework sheets per chapter of the book. Thus the students have continued opportunity to revisit and revise. The answers to the homework are placed in the middle of the book to facilitate easy removal, ... read more

Many teachers discover that in order to teach with more inspiration, passion and power, they need to come to understand more about themselves. This book focuses on teachers as relationally-connected people, their thinking and beliefs, and how these influence teaching.

It explores different philosophies and approaches toward teaching. Each, in turn, returns the reader to the central notion of seeking authenticity through relational connectedness.
This career-long journey constantly reminds teachers of thei... read more

This title offers support to those involved in teaching primary maths. This edition has been fully updated to accord with the new National Curriculum. Its question-and-answer format allows specific problem areas to be easily located. It explains unfamiliar mathematical terms and includes sample lesson plans.

Write Ways has long been recognised as a practical, user-friendly text for both practising teachers and teachers in training. It is a comprehensive resource which gives teachers the information they need to teach children how to write in different styles, covering a broad range of text types - from reports to poetry to fiction. Now expanded to include a theoretical foundation, and with more material on program planning, assessment and record keeping, this book will be invaluable to pre-service education students throughout their de... read more

Recommended for Year 10
Curriculum Level - 5
Provides a systematic progression through the language one could expect Year 9 & 10 students to become familiar with. Topics are word classes, punctuation, syntax, figures of speech and language.

This Homework Book is designed to be used in conjunction with New Zealand Mathematics for Year 10 textbook. The aim of this Mathematics Homework Book is to assist students to become more proficient in the skills which they have learned in class. About 500 questions are provided for Chapters 1-14 in the textbook, covering the basic course for Year 10. (Questions are not provided for the two extension chapters 15 “NCEA Test Types for Level 5” and 16 “Extension Algebra”.) The questions are careful... read more

Written with warmth and humor, "Yardsticks" offers clear descriptions of children's development. This comprehensive, user-friendly reference helps teachers and administrators use knowledge of child development to shape classrooms and schools where all children can succeed. For each age, this book includes: Narrative description of developmental traitsCharts summarizing physical, social, language, and cognitive growth patternsSuggestions for curricular areas: reading, writing, mathematics, and thematic unitsFavorite books for differ... read more

Teaching Secondary School Mathematics and statistics: Evidence-based Practice, Robin Averill and Roger Harvey (Eds.), is a book to delight mathematics teachers at all stages. The authors Robin Averill and Roger Harvey, bring research and practice together to inform, stimulate, and challenge the mathematical thinking of classroom teachers and to encourage them, and give them confidence to, to extend their teaching practice.