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These Dewey numbers are relevant for your subject. Browse the catalogue by call number, or browse the library shelves:

Education    370
Primary education    372
Primary education - specific aspects    372.1 & 372.2
Primary education - computers, science, technology, health    372.3
Primary education - reading    372.4
Primary education - creative & manual arts    372.5
Primary education - language arts & communication    372.6
   372.7
Primary education - other studies    372.8
Primary education - history & geography    372.9
Curriculum planning ; Education curricula    375

These Dewey numbers are relevant for your subject. Browse the catalogue by call number, or browse the library shelves ...

Secondary education                 373

Programmes, levels, curricula    373.2

Use the KLA page to locate relevant Dewey numbers for specific subjects or KLAs.

Primary & Secondary education ebooks

Book Cover: Sculpting New Creativities in Primary Education

Sculpting New Creativities in Primary Education

This book introduces the new term 'creativities' with cutting-edge examples of creativities research that has influenced the thinking and work of teachers and school leaders in their practice. This book is packed with imaginative ideas and practical classroom suggestions underpinned by theory and research to help teachers become research-informed and research-generating.

Book Cover: Authentic Project-Based Learning in Grades 9-12

Authentic Project-Based Learning in Grades 9-12

Authentic Project-Based Learning in Grades 9-12 provides a clear guide to design, develop, and implement real-world challenges for any high school subject. The author lays out five clear, standards-based stages of assessment to help you and your learners process the what, how, and why of authentic project-based experiences.

Book Cover: Art in the Primary School

Art in the Primary School

Art in the Primary School is an introductory textbook, and a second edition to Teaching Primary Art, exploring the underpinning philosophy and pedagogy of teaching and learning art, including how and why digital tools and technologies can be integrated.

Book Cover: STEM Education in Primary Classrooms

STEM Education in Primary Classrooms

STEM Education in Primary Classrooms offers a platform for research that innovates, excites and challenges the status quo. It provides educators with innovative and up-to-date research into how to meaningfully and authentically embed STEM into existing classroom practices.

Book Title: Imaginative Teaching Through Creative Writing: a guide for secondary classrooms

Imaginative Teaching Through Creative Writing: a guide for secondary classrooms

Growing out of recent pedagogical developments in creative writing studies and perceived barriers to teaching the subject in secondary education schools, this book creates conversations between secondary and post-secondary teachers aimed at introducing and improving creative writing instruction in teaching curricula for young people.

Book Cover: Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom

Reclaim Your Challenging Classroom

Effective classroom management is the key to truly inclusive education. This step-by-step guide empowers teachers to create a positive and effective learning environment that is grounded in the student-teacher relationship.

Book Cover: Promoting Positive Mental Health in the Primary School

Promoting Positive Mental Health in the Primary School

Mental health and wellbeing is a hugely important agenda in education, both nationally and internationally.
"Mental health and wellbeing is a hugely important agenda in education, both nationally and internationally. Promoting Positive Mental Health in the Primary School unpacks scientific and psychological research and evidence to explain positive mental health through the lens of a primary classroom in the language of teaching professionals.

Book Cover: Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School helps mentors of trainee and newly qualified primary school teachers to both develop their own mentoring skills and provide the essential guidance their beginning teachers need as they navigate the roller-coaster of the first years in the classroom.

Book Cover: The Playful Classroom

The Playful Classroom

Shows teachers how and why they should bring play into the classroom to make learning meaningful, relevant, and fun. Research studies show that all students--young and old, rich and poor, urban and rural--benefit immensely from classrooms filled with art, creativity, and laughter.

Book Cover: More Planning to Teach Writing

More Planning to Teach Writing

Written by an experienced teacher and literacy consultant, this book offers an easy-to-use approach that will reduce teachers' planning time while raising standards in writing.

Book Cover: Teaching Writing: effective approaches for the middle years

Teaching Writing: effective approaches for the middle years

A comprehensive introduction to teaching writing to upper primary and young adolescent students in a screen-based world.

Book Cover: Big Ideas in Outdoor Primary Science

Big Ideas in Outdoor Primary Science

  Big Ideas in Outdoor Primary Science takes a fresh approach to learning science in outdoor contexts. It combines new thinking in science teaching using big ideas, with our growing need to look after our planet, and encourages children to learn from what scientists have to say about issues which will impact their lives today and in the future.

Book Cover: Teaching Without Disruption in the Secondary School

Teaching Without Disruption in the Secondary School

Behaviour management training of trainee and qualified teachers has been a national priority for some time. This second edition addresses the point that this training and practice should be evidence-based.

Book Cover: Whatever Happened to the Classroom Turtle?

Whatever Happened to the Classroom Turtle?

Research shows that keeping animals in classrooms can have profound effects on student well-being and success in school.

Book Cover: 50 Wellbeing Lessons for the Diverse Primary Classroom

50 Wellbeing Lessons for the Diverse Primary Classroom

This book is designed to support teachers in promoting social and emotional wellbeing within their diverse classroom.

Book Cover: Purposeful Planning in the Primary Classroom

Purposeful Planning in the Primary Classroom

Purposeful Planning for Learning puts the passion and depth back into how teachers plan for learning in the primary classroom. Offering a unique perspective on what constitutes purposeful planning for learning, this book encourages a mindset where planning is integral to, supportive of and informed by learning, including learning that is social, emotional, physical and cognitive.

Book Cover: Humanizing the Classroom: using role plays to teach social and emotional skills in middle and high school

Humanizing the Classroom: using role plays to teach social and emotional skills in middle and high school

This book presents the pedagogical basis for using role plays to teach social and emotional skills, and provides over 45 model lessons that can be delivered in middle and high school classrooms. A rich resource for principals and classroom teachers, it addresses the how, why and what of teaching social and emotional skills in our diverse society.

Book Cover: Surviving and Thriving in the Secondary School

Surviving and Thriving in the Secondary School

With an emphasis on developing a reflective, resilient approach that will ensure both effective teaching and teacher well-being, Surviving and Thriving in the Secondary School covers key issues that may be encountered in the day-to-day practice of teaching in the secondary school.

Book Cover: Mentoring English Teachers in the Secondary School

Mentoring English Teachers in the Secondary School

This practical guide will help school-based mentors of trainee or newly qualified English teachers in developing their own mentoring skills, whilst providing the essential guidance their trainees need as they navigate their new role in the secondary classroom.

Book Cover: Teaching Stem in the Secondary School

Teaching Stem in the Secondary School

This book looks at the purpose and pedagogy of STEM teaching and explores the ways in which STEM subjects can interact in the curriculum to enhance student understanding, achievement and motivation.

Book Cover: Being a Primary Teacher

Being a Primary Teacher

Being a Primary Teacher provides key advice on preparing for and undertaking final placements, securing the first teaching post and getting ready for the first class, through to the first year of teaching.

Book Cover: Discipline in the Secondary Classroom

Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: encouraging responsible behaviour and enhancing motivation

 Improve student behavior and motivation with this comprehensive resource Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: A Positive Approach to Behavior Management, 4th Edition is an insightful treatment of the always-challenging topic of discipline in the high school classroom. The newly revised edition of the book incorporates a renewed focus on classroom management plans, handling the use and misuse of electronic devices in the classroom, and adapting instruction for a virtual classroom setting.

Book Dover: A Possession Forever: A Guide to Using Commemorative Memorials and Monuments in the Classroom

A Possession Forever: A Guide to Using Commemorative Memorials and Monuments in the Classroom

This open textbook will guide educators and students through the process of using local monuments and memorials to contextualise, interrogate and extend their knowledge of historical events at a national and international level.