Rosie Turner-Bisset  Rosie Turner-Bisset has died aged 58 Rosie
Turner-Bisset was an inspiring educator Photograph: Marjory
Bisset  My sister Rosie Turner-Bisset, who has died aged 58,
following knee replacement surgery, was an inspiring educator
and the author of Expert Teaching (2001) and History in the
Primary Classroom (2004). She also wrote research papers and
teacher material for Guardian Education. In 2003 she received a
National Teaching Fellowship, which recognises excellence in
higher education teaching.  Rosie was also a fine player of the
English concertina and melodeon, and a lovely singer with a huge
repertoire of songs. She played for several Morris sides,
including Great Western and Windsor Morris, and was a regular
during Sidmouth Folk Week in Devon.  The youngest of three
girls, she was born (prematurely) in Culcheth near Warrington,
Cheshire. Her mother was a shorthand typist and her father a
lorry driver. Rosie passed the 11-plus and went to Newton-le-
Willows grammar school. In 1973 she gr