You are your child's first teacher, and your challenge is to help your child become a successful writer. Does this mean you need to present daily lessons? No. This merely means you need to take an active part in helping your child with the writing process and related activities. "Helping Your Child Become a Successful Writer: A Guide for Parents" is full of suggestions and offerings on how to do just that, as well as how to have fun while doing that. Presentation starts with the definition of writing, and how the question is not "what is writing?" but "what is good writing?" It continues with...

This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments, educations systems and schools today: the attraction, preparation, and retention of early career teachers. It draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers, interferences and obstacles to teacher resilience and what might be done about it. Based on these stories, five interrelated themes - policies and practices, school culture, teacher identity, teachers' work, and relationships - provide a framework for dialogue around what kinds of conditions need to be created and...