2015
Understanding Children’s Development (6th Edition)
Part I: Theories and Methods Studying Development[rtoc] Developent Observed What is Development? Baltes’s Conceptualization of Life-Span Development Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model of Human Development Obtaining Information about Behaviour and Development What Degree of Control? Recording Data Reliability and Validity Participant Characteristics Children/Young People as Active Participants in Research Working with the Data: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods …
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Teach Like a Champion 2.0
Video Contents Foreword Acknowledgments The Author About Uncommon Schools Introduction: The Art of Teaching and Its Tools Part 1: Check for Understanding Gathering Date on Student Mastery[rtoc] Reject Self-Report Targeted Questioning Standardize the Format Tracking, Not Watching Show Me Affirmative Checking Reflection and Practice Useful tools[/rtoc] Acting on the Data and the Culture of Error[rtoc] …
The News: A User’s Manual
Preface Politics World News Economics Celebrity Disaster Consumption Conclusion
The Cruel Victory: The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944
The Vercors before the Vercors France from the Fall to 1943: Setting the Scene Beginnings The Army Goes Underground Camps and Plans Exodus and Folly Expectation, Nomadisation and Decapitation Retreat, Retrenchment and Reconstruction Pressure and Parachutes The Labours of Hercules January 1944 Of Germans and Spies February 1944 March 1944 Weapons, Wirelesses, Air Drops and …
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Shakespeare (Ideas in Profile)
A Chronology of Shakespeare’s Works Introduction: The Shakespeare Currency What was his life like? How did he write? What did he write? The power of Shakespeare Encountering Shakespeare Why Shakespeare?
Universally Speaking: The ages and stages of children’s communication development – from 5 to 11 years
Children can all be great communicators 5 top reasons to understand more about communication By age 5 … By age 7 … By age 9 … By age 11 … Top tips for children aged 5 to 11 English as an additional language Speech, language and communication needs Find out more; Our resources and Talking …
Women in Love
[rtoc]Diana Quick and Sophie Ward read a selection of poems inspired by the love between women over the ages – from the great Sappho whose many poems exist in tiny fragments, to Virginia Woolf in comic vein and the aunt and niece partnership who travelled Europe writing exquisite poems under the nom de plume Michael …
Eyewitness: Knight
The first knights The Normans Making a knight Armour Fashion in steel Inside the armour Arms and the man On horseback The castle The castle at war Siege warfare Arming to fight The enemy Into battle Castle life Manor lords Manor ladies The ideal of chivalry The tournament The joust Foot combat Heraldry Hunting Faith …
André Previn at the BBC
00:01:00 Late Night Line-Up interview on Previn’s jazz recordings 00:02:00 On dodging publicity in Hollywood, appreciates it when people “take the time to write about what I’m doing professionally” 00:03:30 On quitting Hollywood, and getting the LSO 00:06:00 “tougher to get a seat for the London Symphony Orchestra than for a West End Show”, André Previn’s Music …