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ACER Press publishes and distributes a comprehensive range of books, programs and assessment materials for educators including principals, teachers, librarians, special education coordinators, guidance officers/counsellors and speech pathologists.
Our resources support:
- individual and group assessment programs
- classroom teaching
- pastoral care programs
- teacher professional development
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Covering areas such as:
- General Ability
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Special needs
- Teaching and learning styles
- Thinking skills
- Emotional literacy (social skills, bullying, discipline, behaviour management)
- Career development
- Professional reading.
Latest Releases
NEW Classroom Resources for Middle Primary!
ACER is thrilled to announce the arrival of these electrifying new resources.
- Suitable for all learning styles
- Incorporates direct instruction, strategy instruction and action-based, student-centred learning
- Integrated approach that includes cross-curriculum links, ICT and thinking skills
- Opportunities for assessment, student self-assessment and teacher reflection
- Contemporary content
- Renowned authors
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What teachers need to know about Teaching Methods
Peter Westwood
Teaching Methods explains the different theories of teaching and learning, together with their underlying principles and methods. It defines the role of a teacher in the learning process and looks at the latest research on what contributes to effective practice.
What teachers need to know about Numeracy
Peter Westwood
Numeracy draws on research and relevant literature from several different countries to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject and contains many links to other sources of information and additional resources.
Values Education in Schools
A resource book for student inquiry
Burgh, Freakley & Tilt MacSporran
Values Education in Schools: A resource book for student inquiry is an important new resource for teachers involved in values and ethics education. It provides a range of 'practical philosophy' resources for secondary school teachers that can be used in English, religious education, citizenship, personal development and social science subjects.
Cool Calm Kids
Fun and interactive resources for Prep to Year 2
A Suckling & C Temple
This great new book aims to help young children explore better ways to handle conflict and bossy classmates. It follows on from the authors' successful book Bullying: A Whole School Approach and provides guidance, resources and activities for teachers and parents.
Learning for Leadership
Building a school of professional practice
Educational Leadership Dialogue Series
Michelle Anderson and Christine Cawsey
Part of the Educational Leadership Dialogues series, Learning for Leadership explores how school principals can initiate and maintain programs and practices to develop the leadership potential of teachers in their school. It explains the theory behind the concept of educational leadership and then it tells the story of a school much admired for its leadership development.
Teacher-Parent Collaboration
Early Childhood to Adolescence
Louise Porter
This important new book is a practical guide for teachers who want to improve relationships with the parents of their students. It empowers them with the skills and confidence necessary for productive collaboration and addresses a range of issues that affect children's functioning and achievement.
The Developmental Management Approach
to Classroom Behaviour
Responding to individual needs
Ramon Lewis
This book describes a system of successful classroom behaviour management techniques developed by the author over more than 25 years of teaching practice. It outlines the difficulties confronting teachers trying to manage students’ misbehaviour in schools and describes four types of student who can be helped to behave responsibly.
Play Matters: Engaging Children in Learning
Australian Developmental Curriculum: A play and project based philosophy
Kathy Walker
Play Matters provides information, examples and practical strategies for classroom teachers wishing to explore and implement the Developmental Curriculum (play and project based curriculum) into the learning environment.
Play is often viewed as the reward for when real work is complete. This is not how the term is used in the Developmental Curriculum. Play is part of the learning and work of children.
Towards a Moving School
Developing a Professional Learning & Performance Culture
John Fleming & Elizabeth Kleinhenz
Part of the Educational Leadership Dialogues series, which teams up ACER researchers and experienced school principals to write short, evidence-based, practical guides on topics of significance, with the aim of highlighting significant areas of agreement and disagreement, or difference of focus.
In Towards a Moving School, the theory and practice behind schools with strong learning and performance cultures is examined. The book explores why and how schools become ‘moving’ schools, with teachers who have high levels of professional accountability, taking personal and collective responsibility for improving students’ learning and their own teaching methods.
The Best of Coping
Developing Coping Skills for Adolescents
Erica Frydenberg and Catherine Brandon
The Best of Coping program is designed to provide teachers, youth workers, social workers and counsellors with a structured, comprehensive program for helping adolescents develop resilience and coping skills to deal with common problems and situations.
Sustainable Futures
Teaching and learning: A case study approach
Edited by Margaret Robertson
Sustainable Futures covers cross-cultural understanding, environmental issues and sustainable lifestyles, and is a valuable resource for teachers and students in schools and higher education institutions seeking to expand their knowledge of these areas.
Sustainable Futures is the result of an extraordinary collaboration between ten scientists from around the world. It offers a unique and fascinating approach to sustainable development issues in developing countries.
The Millennial Adolescent
N Bahr & D Pendergast
Teachers play a pivotal role in the lives of adolescents. In a formal capacity, they are charged with the responsibility to educate young people to live as active, informed and engaged members of society.
Everybody's Different
A positive approach to teaching about health, puberty, body image, nutrition, self-esteem and obesity prevention
Dr Jenny O'Dea
Weight and body image concerns in children and adolescents are increasing. Overall body dissatisfaction in young people has increased dramatically in the last few decades, with a heightened prevalence of dieting, eating disorders, obsessive exercise and steroid abuse.
TRIBES
Reaching All by Creating Tribes Learning Communities
30th Anniversary Edition
by Jeanne Gibbs
CenterSource Systems, LLC
Reaching All by Creating Tribes Learning Communities blends the fields of group process and cooperative learning; prevention and resiliency; learning theory and school change into a comprehensive, meaningful whole. This readable, useable, wonderful book is not just a set of activities to build community.
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