Resources by Paul Chapman Publishing

 In his new book The Essentials of School Leadership , Brent Davies and his collaborators offer us a comprehensive, reflective yet eminently practical review of the approaches to school leadership that underpin the...

This book addresses the issue of challenging behaviour and behaviour disorders in schools. It shows how teachers - in a supportive team - have made a significant difference to their students in terms of behaviour,...

In this book, Bill Rogers draws from his experience as a teacher, researcher and educational consultant to emphasise that colleague support can, and does, make a difference to individual teachers and to whole school...

This book is a welcome and practical guide to the wealth of publications on Continuing Professional Development and makes an excellent contribution to the current and widening debate on the nature of Continuing...

This new edition of a best-selling book provides an up to date overview of Continuing Professional Development (CPD), combined with a guide to best practice.

This text will be of considerable interest to educational managers, to those on educational management programmes, and to those who teach and research in educational management' - Mentoring and Tutoring Managing...

Observing Activities

The book Observing Activities, from the Assessing Science in the Primary Classroom series, concerns the observation of children during science activities. An observation schedule was built from categories relating to ‘use of process skills’, ‘other talk’ and ‘non-talk’ behaviours of children and ‘contextual factors...

This book examines the value of systematic observation in assessing pupil performance in science. The origin and criteria for these skills are described, together with examples of children's actions and words which can be taken as evidence of process-based working.

This book explores the particular challenges of teaching and learning science at a distance. It discusses the principles of instructional design, informed by studies of the ways in which conceptual and process-based skills are developed by science learners, and suggests how structural issues in the selection of...

This book enables the reader to not only access, and engage with developing theories and ideas, but also provides practical ideas and examples that have been tried and tested in the classroom.