This resource contains 500 practical suggestions and tips, from planning through evaluation. The handbook is useful when it is time to: organize the venue; create flip charts and handouts; motivate the participants; and design a questionnaire.

Making Teaching Work provides a down-to-earth, jargon-free book for teaching staff in universities and colleges, and includes reference to some of the best modern literature on assessment, teaching and feedback. By focusing on the learner in a variety of situations and contexts, the book explores how teachers can help learners to make learning happen.

The authors emphasise 'teaching smarter' - helping busy, hard-pressed teachers to increase the efficiency as well as effectiveness of their work. Written with both full-time and part-time staff in mind, this...

A compendium of sound, practical, tried-and-tested advice for teachers. Teaching in schools - at primary or secondary level - can be hugely rewarding, but is undeniably ever more demanding. To reap the real rewards of their work while keeping up with changes in the curriculum, teachers are faced with a whole range of practical issues. These range from honing their skills relating to curriculum planning, supporting learning and effective assessment, through to getting to grips with the latest technology and working with difficult pupils or classes.

Lecturing can be a terror, a chore or an exhilerating experience. For most lecturers, at one time or another, it is all of these things. For many in HE and FE it remains the staple form of teaching and, as student groups get larger, so good lecturing is ever more important.

This volume brings together a range of expert tips and guidance for staff developers and trainers. Offering a collection of ready-to-use ideas, advice and support on all aspects of training, it can be used as a day-to-day resource for the experienced and less-experienced alike.

This practical book aims to help teachers and lecturers to exploit the full potential of IT in teaching. From the fundamentals, such as buying the right computer, through to desktop publishing, databases and the law, it offers user-friendly advice and support.

Assessment is widely recognized as an integral part of learning for students at all levels; it can also be the bane of a teacher's or lecturer's life. Evolving information and communications technology now offers ways of reducing the burden of assessment work and giving feedback without losing the developmental benefits for students of assessment. This book draws on a range of expertise to share good practice and explore new ways of using appropriate technologies in assessment. It provides both a strategic overview and pragmatic proposals for the use of computers in assessment. Contents...