Combining workable classroom practice with understanding of the ways children learn, this text offers a guide to the teaching of science. The approach is learning-centred, holistic and rational, and the book offers reassurance and realistic advice for those teachers who did not specialise in science, and who may be worried about their lack of experience in Science National Curriculum territory. This second edition reflects the different context of science education and the needs of teachers in the 90s. The post-Dearing National Curriculum, assessment, planning and professional development are...

This is a challenging new book for primary teachers interested in developing their teaching of Design & Technology, subject leaders in D&T, and for student teachers choosing this as their specialty. It will also appeal to in-service providers and LEA advisory staff.
Children's creativity, cultural development and citizenship are important but currently underdeveloped in primary education. This book uniquely focuses on how these aspects can be emphasized in the teaching of Design and Technology. The National Curriculum has the potential to bring creativity, cultural development and...

This book makes a unique contribution to current thinking by making a link between two current key policy drivers in education: personalized learning and distributed leadership. Ron Ritchie and Ruth Deakin Crick put forward the idea that an effective means of implementing personalizing learning is to adopt distributed approaches to school leadership. The book builds on the other titles in the NCE Personalizing Learning series, particularly Personalizing Learning: Transforming education for every child by John West-Burnham and Max Coates.Personalizing learning remains a contested concept,...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In This Study Guide Ron R. Ritchie Asks the question DID YOU EVER WONDER?... If Jesus is the Son of God? If our sins could be forgiven? If you really are a Christian? Why we are not to love the world? How can you avoid being deceived? Who are you in the sight of God? How to lay down your life for one another? How to test the spirits? How to love others as God loves you? Who is really in the family of God? If you have eternal life? Ron's messages have grown out of four decades of studying and learning to apply god's word. Ron has had the privilege of teaching these principle sin a variety of...