Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. This book offers a set of in-service resources to help teachers develop new classroom practices informed by sound research. It builds on previous work associated with 'formative assessment' or 'assessment for learning'. However, it adds an important new dimension by taking account of the conditions within schools that are conducive to the promotion, in classrooms, of learning how to learn as an extension of assessment for learning. Among the materials included you will find:

• an introductory...

This work provides a scholarly account of the research evidence that informed the development of ten evidence-based principles for effective pedagogy, as well as offering some evidence of early take-up and impact.

When Freedom Turned Green reads as a story but is realistic enough to be used as survival guide. In the world we live in now with the unstable economy the big question people are asking is, what would I do if...? When Freedom Turned Green paints a picture of one fictional, yet plausible outcome to this question. Out of the ashes of total economic and social collapse comes a new era, built on ideas and dreams of a better world, but at what point does the quest for a better tomorrow, turn into a battle of blurred moral boundaries. When Freedom Turned Green, is a story of how the road to a...