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 Classroom Management
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Even More Outside the Box 7-9
This photocopiable book is full of innovative, user friendly, exciting and unusual activities that promote creative thinking and problem solving skills in upper KS2. The activities in this book are ideal for less intensive teaching times across the school year - at the end of term, at the beginning of term when a teacher wants to get to know the class or just when a teacher wants to do 'something different'.
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Even More Outside the Box 9-11
This photocopiable book is full of innovative, user friendly, exciting and unusual activities that promote creative thinking and problem solving skills in upper KS2. The activities in this book are ideal for less intensive teaching times across the school year - at the end of term, at the beginning of term when a teacher wants to get to know the class or just when a teacher wants to do 'something different'.
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Cross-Curricular Teaching in the Primary School
Helps teachers plan a more imaginative, integrated curriculum by presenting in accessible language a rationale and framework for teaching across the subjects. Illustrated throughout with examples of effective topic work in successful schools, this book provides guidance on the underpinning theory and strategies to facilitate cross-curricular work with young children.
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How to be an Outstanding Primary School Teacher
This is a clear and concise guide to becoming an outstanding primary teacher in the true Ofsted meaning of the word. All of the time. Every lesson. This book contains lots of easy-to-introduce activities and techniques that will propel satisfactory and good lessons into the outstanding category - not just when being observed, but all the time. And the best news? This book tells you how to do it without spending lots more time planning, researching and preparing 'out of this world' lessons.
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Cross-Curricular Learning
This second edition of Cross-curricular learning 3-14 explores the key practical and theoretical issues underpinning cross-curricular teaching and learning. Using an accessible research-informed approach strongly rooted in the realities of teaching it introduces the scientific and educational evidence supporting the introduction of cross-curricular approaches alongside techniques to put the theories into practice, including important preparatory aspects such as planning and assessment.
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Classroom Behaviour
In this Third Edition of his bestselling book, Bill Rogers looks at the issues facing teachers working in today's classrooms. Describing real situations and dilemmas, he offers advice on dealing with the challenges of the job, and how building up a rapport with both students and colleagues can support good practice.
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Invisible Teaching
A book of new fast, fun activities that require little or no set-up to boost the energy, openness and focus of students (and teachers) that promote a positive and focused classroom atmosphere. This practical book of 101 tried and tested activities will boost performance levels in the classroom by tapping into the secrets of invisible teaching. Easy to follow and deliver, the activities personalise learning, encourage creativity, inspire students, develop emotional intelligence and better communication, build rapport and support effective classroom management and ignite a passion for learning.
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The Mixed Age Classroom
This popular, prize-winning series was first published in response to the Every Child Matters Report which identified five key outcomes for children. This series aims to provide sound, clear advice, to help practitioners and teachers deliver the objectives of Every Child Matters. The books are written by experts and based on extensive knowledge, supported by the latest research.
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Effective Teaching
This new edition updates the successful 2005 edition with the latest research on effective teaching and learning. Appropriate for primary and secondary, the authors continue to provide a broad and comprehenisve overview of what is now a large body of knowledge on effective teaching. The authors maintain their user-friendly style and the structure which takes in generic teaching skills; teaching for specific goals; subject specific strategies and other classroom issues.
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The Lazy Teacher's Handbook
Ever wondered what would happen if you stopped teaching in your lessons? You might be surprised. If you want your students to learn more and you to work less, then this book provides you with all the arguments and evidence you need to become a lazy, but outstanding teacher. Gathered over 10 years in the classroom, this handbook of tried-and-tested techniques shifts the emphasis away from the teaching and onto the learning, and makes your life so much easier in the process.
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Great Group Games for Kids
Building on the popularity of the best-selling Great Group Games, this new collection for the younger set shows teachers and group leaders how to make even the silliest activity meaningful. Complete with details on timing, supplies, set up, and suggested group size, this is the perfect grab-and-go resource for anyone working with elementary school age children. Far from frivolous, each 'play with purpose' game concludes with discussion questions to build positive identity, friendship skills, and a host of other character traits kids need to succeed.
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Rocket Up Your Class!
If you are looking for a creative opening, energising middle or big finish to a lesson then this book provides over a hundred activities which have been developed over ten years and have worked with thousands of students in hundreds of schools. This book is for the curious and enthusiastic and for anyone who is stuck in a learning environment wishing they were somewhere else. The activities are designed to develop communication, teamwork, creative thinking, confidence, and provide the dopamine release required for effective learning. This book shamelessly entertains whilst at the same time engaging young people in the creative arena by putting a Rocket Up Your Class!
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Pimp Your Lesson!: Prepare, Innovate, Motivate and Perfect
Nothing strikes such fear into the heart of the over-worked, undervalued teacher as the prospect of inspection. Perhaps it is because we feel it often involves being measured against and inserted into a de-humanizing four-point scale. Few of us glow with pride when we are awarded the dubious title of Satisfactory; even more frustrating sometimes can be arriving second at the finishing line with a "didn't-quite-make-it" Good. So how do we ensure that the much coveted "Outstanding" box gets ticked? And why do an elite few keep it such a privileged fellowship? "Pimp Your Lesson" reveals, in detail, the secrets to impressing the pants off your observer, whether it be your Head of Department, Headteacher, Mentor or - worse still - Ofsted!
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The Laughing Classroom
Every teacher has experienced it and every student dreads it: the boring classroom. What perks a classroom up and gets the attention of even the most jaded or obdurate student? The answer of this manual is laughter. There are 40 exercises and activities for making learning lively and fun.
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Creative Teaching and Learning Toolkit
This book aims to help you become a more effective teacher through a new teaching and learning framework which centres on the key role of creativity. Inside you will learn how to use creativity to reinvigorate teaching across all subject areas, thereby inspiring learners to reach their potential. Through a highly practical and inclusive approach, the book equips you with a range of common-sense strategies and tools designed to build on your existing knowledge and skills.
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How Children Learn
This book summarises the finding and ideas of educational theorists and psychologists- famous names such as Montessori and Piaget as well as lesser-known ones such as Dewey and Donaldson. It also looks at the theory behind different approaches to early years education-Montessori, Steiner, the Italian pre-school of Reggio Emilia, and the early years curriculum in New Zealand.
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Thinking and Learning Skills Ages 7-11
Help children to engage with their learning and work both collaboratively and independently. Activities are related to real-life and curriculum contexts to engage and motivate children. Cater for different learning styles with visual and hands-on resources. Plenty of follow-up suggestions for further work for children to apply their knowledge. Develop thinking and learning skills across the curriculum through: literacy, numeracy, science, humanities, creative arts and PE.
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Thinking and Learning Skills Ages 5-7
Help children to engage with their learning and work both collaboratively and independently. Activities are related to real-life and curriculum contexts to engage and motivate children. Cater for different learning styles with visual and hands-on resources. Plenty of follow-up suggestions for further work for children to apply their knowledge. Develop thinking and learning skills across the curriculum through: literacy, numeracy, science, humanities, creative arts and PE.
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Teaching Able, Gifted and Talented Children
Providing exciting and challenging educational opportunities for more able students requires the support of the whole school, and this book makes suggestions for ways to do just this. The book follows the structure of a suggested school policy document and provides schools with resources to assist them in developing their strategy for meeting the needs of their more able pupils, in line with Every Child Matters and the New Relationship with Schools agendas.
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Free Time Activities
This photocopiable book is packed with innovative, exciting and unusual activities such as an 'intergalactic beauty contest' 'a noise scavenger hunt' or 'pencil olympics'! They are the type of activity that busy teachers, no longer have the time or energy to create. For ease of planning, the books are organised according to the size of the group i.e. activities for a) individuals, b) pairs or small groups and c) whole group activities
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500 Activities for the primary classroom
Aimed at teachers of children between the ages of 3-12, this is a lively, varied compendium of ideas and classroom activities. Key features include: wide-ranging resource of activities which are easy to set up and do not require a lot of additional materials; and up-to-date approach that covers current approaches in teaching children including content-based learning.
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The 50 Best Indoor Games for Groups
These handy pocket books will ensure you are never again stuck for activity ideas that will help make both teaching and learning fun! Carefully selected, each collection of the 50 Best Games is themed and addresses a specific area of development. All the games are easy to implement with the minimum of preparation and can be adapted to the needs of your particular group. Use them as warm-ups, ice breakers, time fillers or to address a specific need.
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Professional Issues for Primary Teachers
The authors set out the nature of primary education in England and the professional demands made on primary school teachers by parents, the children themselves, government agencies, society and the profession. Written by Primary PGCE tutors, practising primary teachers, headteachers, and practitioners doing educational research, each chapter offers practical suggestions and in-depth discussion of essential topics.
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Perfect Phrases for Classroom Teachers
Helps you find the right words that will communicate a student’s progress effectively and reveal his or her weaknesses without sounding negative. This book provides lists of words and phrases that convey difficult messages tactfully and with appropriate professionalism, and words and phrases that follow state standards and guidelines for permanent records.
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Games, Ideas and Activities for Learning Outside the Primary Classroom
With outdoor education is resurfacing as a recommended method for teachers to use,this book offers ideas and activities to help teachers bring the outdoors into their teaching .These ideas for learning outside the normal classroom environment offer inspiration to new and experienced teachers alike by suggesting practical and adaptable ideas for use in many areas of the curriculum and daily school life.
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How to Handle Hard-to-Handle Parents
This must-have resource helps educators work effectively with all parents, even the most difficult ones, and prevent problems before they happen. Maryln Appelbaum offers targeted strategies, solutions, and skills to establish positive and harmonious relationships with all parents, overcome adversity, enhance the home-school connection, and boost student performance.
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How to be a Successful Teacher
Teaching is a rewarding, yet demanding profession, one in which a person needs to be fully prepared. This book focuses on the applied psychological skills, strategies and resources, which will help to ensure you are equipped with personal and professional expertise to survive in the classroom. The authors give specific examples taken from a diverse range of professional situations, always with relevant theoretical underpinning, and the structure allows you to dip in and out of chapters and sections.
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Encyclopedia of Primary Education
Based on the author’s extensive experience in primary education, entries combine an interrogation of educational concepts with the pedagogical and practical implications for classroom practice, children’s learning and school management. This handy reference work will be invaluable to anyone currently teaching or training to teach at primary level, teaching assistants, school governors and parents. In fact it is essential reading for anyone with an interest and passion for primary education.
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Everything But Teaching
Every teacher knows that what happens before and after class is as important as what happens during class. This accessible resource gives all teachers indispensable tips for managing professional priorities outside the classroom and saving energy for the most essential part of their work: teaching students.
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The Art of Teaching
Explores the tension between teaching and learning that all teachers face. Presenting a series of insights into the art of teaching from the perspectives of those individuals most closely involved in the schooling process, the book explores pupil voice in schools, and experiences of teaching and learning from the pupil perspective. Providing an opportunity for self reflection, the book also examines teachers’ relationships with parents, external agencies and their attitudes towards pupils.
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The Complete Guide to Lesson Planning and Preparation
This fascinating guide focuses on what teachers really need to know before they teach a class - it deals with the things that all teachers have to do every time they plan a lesson. It also provides genuinely comprehensive treatment of short-term, medium-term and long-term planning, preparing resources and differentiation. Accessible, well-written and brimming with advice, this essential guide will prove indispensable for everyone in the classroom.
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Classroom DIY
For any teacher who has ever had to create a really great classroom out of next to nothing. This book will provide a practical, step-by-step guide that will enable any primary teacher to make a spectacular job of setting up their room.
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Talking, Listening, and Teaching
How participants in a classroom communicate as a whole has the potential to enhance or inhibit a student's potential to succeed. This accessible guide helps teachers explore the communication patterns that exist in their classrooms and determine if and how those patterns can be changed to improve instruction. In specific, non-technical terms, the author shows how to gather data-"teacher and student talk"-transcribe classroom dialogue, and then analyze the information to uncover common problems that might undermine the learning process.
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Reflective Teaching
Reflective activity is of vital importance to the teaching profession. It underpins evidence-informed professional judgement and its use for worthwhile educational purposes. It provides a vehicle for learning and professional renewal – and thus for promoting the independence and integrity of teachers .This book is a collective product, reflecting the cumulative professional experience of several generations of classroom practitioners, researchers and educationalists.
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Cross-curricular Approaches to Teaching and Learning
With practical ideas on how to join-up the primary curriculum, this book uses history and geography to explore different contexts and strategies for making links between the full range of primary subjects, so that learning can be more integrated and relevant to learners.
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How to Manage Children's Challenging Behaviour
All teachers face similar issues of behaviour, from calling out, interrupting, inappropriate loudness, through to more disturbing bullying, violence and behaviour disorders. This book addresses the issue of challenging behaviour and behaviour disorders in schools. It shows how teachers - in a supportive team - have made a significant difference to their students in terms of behaviour, attitude, self-esteem and peer acceptance. Bill Rogers sets out the key principles of behaviour leadership drawn from the teachers' own accounts.
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Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms
Literacy experts Camille Blachowicz and Peter Fisher wrote this book for teachers who have a sense of direction but who want some new, classroom-tested strategies to renew their curriculum. This new edition includes a wealth of new material. It expands its treatment of independent, metacognitive strategies for learning vocabulary, such as using contextual cues and references.
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Hands-On Learning
Plan lessons from a child-centered perspective. Hands-On Learning provides a guide to developing tactile lessons that teachers can use to engage young children's senses and build on their interests. Early childhood educators will learn how to select everyday objects and materials that children find interesting and develop themes around those materials.
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Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
The updated edition of this top-selling title will help teachers develop students into purposeful thinkers and proficient readers by using classroom strategies that scaffold comprehension. Doug Buehl has completely revised his collection of literacy skill-building strategies to bring this edition more in line with today's thinking about reading comprehension. The stronger focus on gradual release of responsibility, metacognition, and what happens before, during, and after reading will get you thinking about how students can really own the strategies.
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The Active Classroom
Promote learning that is purposeful, engaging, brain-compatible, spontaneous, reflective, and fun for everyone! This resource shows teachers how to turn passive students into enthusiastic participants in their own learning. Emphasizing that students must be actively involved in the learning process if their classroom experience is to lead to deeper understanding and the building of lasting new knowledge
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Creating the Peaceable Classroom
Through step-by-step instructions and the latest research on the brain, this resource provides strategies for optimizing the learning environment for both teachers and students. Learn how to enhance your own well-being and use techniques such as guided imagery, conscious breathing, music, and drawing to calm, focus, or energize your students.
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Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children
A volume offering ideas for classroom activities for children aged six and up. It is geared towards gifted and talented children, but other children should benefit from the activities too. The activities cover many types of creative and critical thinking skills that should enable all children to develop their cognitive processes. The work that the children produce should be extremely different because the activities allow room for creativity and open-ended answers.
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Outside the box 7-9
This photocopiable book is full of innovative, user friendly, exciting and unusual activities that promote creative thinking and problem solving skills for 7-9 year olds. The activities in this book are ideal for less intensive teaching times across the school year - at the beginning of term when a teacher wants to get to know the class or just when a teacher wants to do 'something different' to make pupils think 'outside the box'. The challenges in this book make an exciting change from the strictly subject-based lessons and would be ideal for supply teachers or LSAs. All the activities have been tried and tested in the classroom many times by the author who is an experienced teacher.
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Outside the box 9-11
This photocopiable book is full of innovative, user friendly, exciting and unusual activities that promote creative thinking and problem solving skills in upper KS2. The activities in this book are ideal for less intensive teaching times across the school year - at the end of term (particularly after SATs in Year 6), at the beginning of term when a teacher wants to get to know the class or just when a teacher wants to do 'something different' to make pupils think 'outside the box'. The challenges in this book make an exciting change from the strictly subject-based lessons and would be ideal for supply teachers or LSAs. All the activities have been tried and tested in the classroom many times by the author who is an experienced teacher.
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Cool Cats, Calm Kids
Stress isn't just for adults anymore, our children are stressed, too. They need coping tools that are fun, informative and memorable. This book is a practical, humorous guide to relaxation and stress management for children
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Work-Life Balance: A Practical Guide for Teachers
Use this book to re-establish control over your life and to understand the impact of work pressures and issues in your personal life, it will show you how to: audit your work-life balance to find out which areas are really causing you the most tension; establish what you want out of your work and your life outside work, this is important because your aspirations change; allocate time and other resources to ensure that work and life outside work are given the right priorities with reference to your emotional commitment; deal with the expectations of others; cope with specific issues such as the long hours culture, the excessive workload, the professional imperatives of being a member of a caring profession as well as a teacher
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Guerilla Guide to Teaching
This utterly practical guide to the profession of teaching draws on the advice of professional in all areas of education. Sue Cowley provides a vivid insider's guide to the work of being a teacher in all its aspects - planning, teaching, assessment, technology, management, career progression and more. Illustrated throughout with checklists, real-life documents and soundbites from teachers at the chalkface.
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Managing Boys' Behaviour, Tabatha Rayment
A practical guide for teachers and trainees on managing boys' behaviour; part of the behaviour management strand. A practical and engaging guide for teachers on tackling boys' behaviour problems. The author analyses the many factors that can lead to boys' misbehaving in class - including SEN, giftedness, peer pressure etc - and shows how their full potential can be unleashed and exploited by teachers. Packed with innovative strategies and useful suggestions, this book should be a must-read for every teacher.
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Teach with Your Strengths
Focusing on the central insight that all great teachers make the most of their natural talents, "Teach with Your Strengths" shows educators how to avoid the pitfalls that lead to mediocrity and work best with what they have. The book is written by two teachers with a combined 70 years of classroom and consulting experience, and it includes real-life examples of how great teachers use their strengths to solve problems, battle bureaucracy, and reach all of their students.
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Dos and Don'ts of Behaviour Management: A Teacher's Survival Guide
The down-to-earth introduction sets the tone for this upbeat and practical guide for teachers. Containing advice on all aspects of behaviour management, this book covers problems such as managing 'problem' pupils and dealing with a classroom 'riot'. This book will prove essential reading for teachers everywhere
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Getting the Buggers to Think, Sue Cowley
This guide from Sue Cowley provides an entertaining and accessible introduction to teaching thinking for teachers of all levels, covering key areas such as problem solving, developing creativity and lateral thinking.
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There's No Need to Shout! David Wright
This book is written in a clear, easy to follow style and is packed with real case studies drawn from a wide range of educational contexts. Emphasis is on a positive approach and how language, humour, anger, non-verbal communication and the teacher's style of leadership can contribute to a well-managed, calm classroom. A clear guidance is given about how to devise, introduce and teach plans to the pupils so that they can become responsible for their own behaviour. This book is an ideal starting point for training sessions or discussions, enabling staff to share ideas.
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How to Create and Develop a Thinking Classroom
The interest in different thinking skills and learning styles has grown over the last few years. Many books have been written introducing such tools as: brain-based teaching; individual learning styles; multiple intelligence; thinking skills; brain-friendly classrooms; accelerated learning; VAK; How to Create and Develop a Thinking Classroom will show you how to integrate the best of these new teaching methods with the finest traditional classroom practice.
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How to Survive Your First Year in Teaching, Sue Cowley
This is fully updated second edition of boasts new and improved survival tactics for the newly qualified teacher in the classroom, demystifying the teaching profession. Covering every aspect of the profession, this guide provides information, advice and useful tips on all the typical issues facing the new teacher during the school year, such as planning, controlling and teaching classes; coping with the administrative workload; developing positive relationships with students, colleagues and parents; and preparing for mentoring sessions, inspection and promotion.
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Accelerated Learning Pocketbook
By adopting accelerated learning principles you can teach in a way that maximises your students' chances of reaching their potential. This pocketbook offers practical strategies and techniques that get results.
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Creative Teaching Pocketbook
The extensively illustrated pocketbook is aimed at teachers working in primary and secondary education in England but is also relevant to teachers working in other parts of the UK and overseas. It starts with 'challenging your comfort zones' and the importance of teamwork with students and colleagues. Ideas for creative starters, middles and plenaries include active approaches to lessons and using technology creatively. Questioning techniques are discussed and a section devoted to revision includes strategies to help visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners.
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Primary Teacher's Pocketbook
Extensively illustrated, the Primary Teacher's Pocketbook looks first at the role of the class teacher. It covers the importance of classroom organisation and of creating an emotionally supportive environment, then talks about effective planning and behaviour management. There's a section on being the 'great teacher' and discussion of the gender and achievement issue. The need to manage relationships and to look after yourself are emphasised and there is advice for achieving successful OFSTED inspections.
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The Behaviour Management Pocketbook
In clear, concise language, supported by helpful illustrations, this pocketbook looks at what makes effective teachers. It considers different styles of classroom management, patterns and types of behaviour and offers a range of core principles and key strategies for dealing with everyday scenarios. Teachers will welcome practical examples of real responses to real situations and respond warmly to helpful advice about managing themselves as well as their charges.
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Organising Learning in the Primary School Classroom
A guide for primary school teachers and trainee teachers showing them how to achieve more effective classroom practice. This third edition has been updated to take into account developments in policy and practice. It now includes information about: the revised National Curriculum; developments in dealing with special needs; the literacy and numeracy hours; homework; and the home/school agreement. The author also includes detailed discussions of collaborative group work and peer tutoring. She makes references to more recent work on effective teaching and learning and includes references to Goleman's work on emotional intelligence and the application of this to managing learning and behaviour in the primary school.
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Cracking the Hard Class
This text provides many practical and constructive ideas and strategies which can be implemented to overcome the problems of the difficult class.
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The Art of Peaceful Teaching in the Primary School
This text aims to help primary teachers improve behaviour, preserve motivation and foster cooperation by developing positive relationships with pupils and their parents, creating a calm environment for learning and using non-confrontational communication skills. It outlines an empathetic approach to understanding and managing disruptive behaviour that avoids conflict and demoralization.
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Confident Classroom Leadership
This text offers newly qualified and experienced teachers practical skills to support them in their key role of effectively managing classrooms. Behaviour management approaches, influential language patterns and core skills for building positive relationships are presented in detail. The integrated activities provide sustained professional development, inviting teachers to reflect on what it is they do well and in doing so generate confidence and motivation.
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Creating Winning Classrooms
This text offers insights into the emotional classroom climate necessary for successful and effective learning. The authors present a range of ideas and understandings to support teachers in proactively building and sustaining an emotionally empowering classroom.
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Essential Teaching Skills
This is a guide to successful classroom practice in primary and secondary schools. It covers a wide range of topics, including the nature and development of teaching skills; planning, preparing, presenting and managing lessons; classroom climate and discipline; assessing and evaluating the pupils' and the teacher's own performance; the DfEE's competences for newly qualified teachers; differentiation, streaming and setting; and mentoring and professional development.
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