Communication Skills for your Education Degree [Hardcover]

Communication Skills for your Education Degree will help you to:

• improve your oral and written communication skills in a range of academic and educational settings
• improve your public speaking, including academic presentations
• improve your practical writing and speaking skills

If you are embarking on a university education or teaching degree, the books in this series will help you acquire and develop the knowledge, skills and strategies you need to achieve your goals. Tasks and activities are designed to foster aspects of learning which are valued in higher education, including learner autonomy and critical thinking, and to guide you towards reflective practice in your study and work life.?

Kulwinder Maude is a senior lecturer in education at Kingston University. Her background is in primary teaching and she worked as an EAL coordinator and later as an inclusion manager in primary settings in London. As a part of her master's degree, she explored emergent bilingual reading in KS1 children, and her research is focused on student teachers' knowledge of early reading development.

David Waugh is a former deputy headteacher who has worked in Initial Teacher Training (ITT) from 1990 at the University of Hull, where he led the PGCE course and became Head of Department.? In 2008 he was appointed as a National Strategies Regional Adviser for ITT.? He is currently Director of the Primary PGCE at Durham University, where he is also subject leader for English. He has published extensively in primary English, as well as developing e-learning resources for National Strategies for English, mathematics and mentoring and coaching.

Jane Bottomley?is a freelance writer, teacher and educational consultant. She is a Senior Fellow of tlÓJ