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Teaching Assistant’s Handbook for Level 3: Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools
The ideal support for those taking a qualification in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools at Level 3.Support the development of children and young people with this hands-on and practical guide, used in a variety of settings including primary, secondary, special and extended schools. Covering the Award in Support Work in Schools, the Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools, and the Certificate in Supporting the Wider Curriculum this textbook will:
– Enable students to succeed by fully covering the QCF qualifications and following the exact unit structure.
– Help develop personal and professional skills through key tasks which will contribute to assessment.
– Build knowledge and understanding by including ‘Key Terms’ and ‘Case Study’ features, for additional student support.
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Teaching Assistant’s Pocketbook
As Teaching Assistants and their contribution to schools, classrooms and pupil attainment fall increasingly under the spotlight, so does the fact that just like teachers TA s need proper induction, training and career development. The second edition of the Teaching Assistant’s Pocketbook supports these needs by exploring the role of the TA, offering practical ideas for effective classroom support and highlighting professional development opportunities. Using cartoons, diagrams and visual prompts to support the text, this Pocketbook is aimed at teaching assistants in primary and secondary schools in the UK but will be relevant to those working overseas. It starts by focusing on the position of the TA within a school and identifies the personnel, policies, procedures and practices to look for in an induction programme. Subsequent sections deal with how to work in partnership with teachers; effective ways to support pupils; and how, in a broader context, to assist the school. Topics include recording, reporting and evaluating; SEN; diversity in learning and how children learn; behaviour; and strategies for overcoming barriers to learning. The nuts and bolts of child protection and safeguarding, getting on with the teaching staff, contracts of employment, where to get support and how to further your career are all helpfully covered. Author Dot Constable has over 30 years teaching experience, including several years as a SENCO and deputy headteacher. Now working as an educational consultant she provides support, guidance and training to schools, LAs and teaching agencies.Read more
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Teaching Children to Listen in Primary Schools: A practical approach
Teaching Children to Listen in Primary Schools contains a wealth of interventions to improve listening skills across the school. It is perfect for classrooms where poor listening is an increasing barrier to teaching as the resultant distractible behaviour can make it difficult for the rest of the class to pay attention.Specialist speech and language therapists Liz Spooner and Jacqui Woodcock present activities to develop children’s key listening skills, as well as a rating scale to assess pupils on each of the four rules of good listening – looking at the person who is talking; sitting still; staying quiet; and listening to all the words. They offer advice on using these findings to inform individual education plans. Liz and Jacqui also look at why listening is important and offer 40 games to encourage children to become good listeners.
This practical guide not only contains photocopiable resources, assessment and teaching suggestions with clear and concise explanations from professionals who directly work with children on a daily basis, but it also pinpoints the behaviours that children need to learn in order to be good listeners. Teaching Children to Listen in Primary Schools is an invaluable resource for practically developing children’s listening skills.
For activities aimed specifically at Early Years children, check out Teaching Children to Listen in the Early Years.
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Teaching Computing in Secondary Schools: A Practical Handbook
This book provides a step-by-step guide to teaching computing at secondary level. It offers an entire framework for planning and delivering the curriculum and shows you how to create a supportive environment for students in which all can enjoy computing. The focus throughout is on giving students the opportunity to think, program, build and create with confidence and imagination, transforming them from users to creators of technology.
In each chapter, detailed research and teaching theory is combined with resources to aid the practitioner, including case studies, planning templates and schemes of work that can be easily adapted. The book is split into three key parts: planning, delivery, and leadership and management, and covers topics such as:
- curriculum and assessment design
- lesson planning
- cognitive science behind learning
- computing pedagogy and instructional principles
- mastery learning in computing
- how to develop students’ computational thinking
- supporting students with special educational needs and disabilities
- encouraging more girls to study computing
- actions, habits and routines of effective computing teachers
- behaviour management and developing a strong classroom culture
- how to support and lead members of your team.
Teaching Computing in Secondary Schools is essential reading for trainee and practising teachers, and will prove to be an invaluable resource in helping teaching professionals ensure that students acquire a wide range of computing skills which will support them in whatever career they choose.
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Teaching Computing Unplugged in Primary Schools: Exploring primary computing through practical activities away from the computer
Teaching primary computing without computers?The Computing curriculum is a challenge for primary school teachers. The realities of primary school resources mean limited access to computer hardware. But computing is about more than computers. Important aspects of the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science can be taught without any hardware. Children can learn to analyse problems and computational terms and apply computational thinking to solve problems without turning on a computer.
This book shows you how you can teach computing through ‘unplugged’ activities. It provides lesson examples and everyday activities to help teachers and pupils explore computing concepts in a concrete way, accelerating their understanding and grasp of key ideas such as abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation. The unplugged approach is physical and collaborative, using kinaesthetic learning to help make computing concepts more meaningful and memorable.
This book will help you to elevate your teaching, and your children′s learning of computing beyond the available hardware. It focuses on the building blocks of understanding required for computation thinking.
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Teaching in the Online Classroom: Surviving and Thriving in the New Normal
A timely guide to online teaching strategies from bestselling author Doug Lemov and the Teach Like a Champion team
School closures in response to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic resulted in an immediate and universal pivot to online teaching. More than 3.7 million teachers in the U.S. were suddenly asked to teach in an entirely new setting with little preparation and no advance notice. This has caused an unprecedented threat to children’s education, giving rise to an urgent need for resources and guidance. Teaching in the Online Classroom is a just-in-time response to educators’ call for help. Teaching expert Doug Lemov and his colleagues spent weeks studying videos of online teaching and they now provide educators in the midst of this transition with a clear guide to engaging and educating their students online.
Although the transition to online education is happening more abruptly than anyone anticipated, technology-supported teaching may be here to stay. This guide explores the challenges involved in online teaching and guides educators and administrators to identify and understand best practices. It is a valuable tool to help you and your students succeed in synchronous and asynchronous settings this school year and beyond.
- Learn strategies for engaging students more fully online
- Find new techniques to assess student progress from afar
- Discover tools for building online classroom culture, combating online distractions, and more
- Watch videos of teachers building rigor and relationships during online instruction
Teaching in the Online Classroom features real-world examples you can apply and adapt right away in your own online classroom to allow you to survive and thrive online.
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Teaching On Your Own Terms: The 5 Steps to Building the Online Teaching Business of Your Dreams
It’s Time To Build The Teaching Business Of Your Dreams And Impact More Students!
The way that teaching is delivered has changed forever… In a good way too!
After the 2020 pandemic the entire world of education was forced online and opened everyone’s eyes (both students and teachers) to the power of online learning…
Now almost everyone on planet earth has a zoom account! Which means that there has never been a better opportunity for teachers to take their expertise online, share their passion for teaching with students who need their help and finally get paid what they deserve without having to wrestle with a never ending workload.
The time of the teacher has arrived.
This book will take you by the hand and walk you through 5 proven steps that hundreds of teachers across the globe are now using to prove that it is possible to teach on your own terms by launching and scaling your own online teaching business.
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Teaching Reading to All Learners Including Those with Complex Needs: A Framework for Progression within an Inclusive Reading Curriculum (nasen spotlight)
Learning to read and having access to a rich reading curriculum has a huge impact upon us both emotionally and academically. so how can we ensure that it is seen as an entitlement of all learners, including those defined as having profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) and the most complex needs?
This accessible book provides professionals with the knowledge and confidence to develop reading for all learners. It integrates the latest ideas and research into a practical framework to create an inclusive reading curriculum and support learners across the whole education spectrum, including those with the most complex needs. Each chapter includes a mixture of research, strategies, and case study examples, demonstrating how reading supports both wellbeing and access to learning and – with stories – provides a versatile vehicle to build on vocabulary and expand our ability to think and learn about our place in the world.
Teaching Reading to All Learners Including Those with Complex Needs is essential reading for both new and experienced teachers and special educational needs and disabilities coordinators (SENDCo)s looking to develop an inclusive reading curriculum and culture which will positively impact on the outcomes of all young people.
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Teaching Rebooted: Using the science of learning to transform classroom practice
Teaching Rebooted uncovers the most important pieces of educational research on the science of learning, helping teachers to understand how we learn and retain information. Jon Tait explores strategies such as metacognition, interleaving, dual coding and retrieval practice, examining the evidence behind each approach and providing practical ideas to embed them in classroom practice.This pick-up-and-go manual highlights some of the classroom fads that have come and gone to allow readers to reflect on their practice and decision-making. It offers practical tips to help teachers change what they are doing in the classroom straightaway, bridging the gap between academic research and day-to-day practice for teachers at any stage of their career. Written by an experienced senior leader responsible for teaching and learning, school improvement, professional development and educational research, this guide will help reboot teaching so it is both evidence informed and effective.
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Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide
Teaching science is no simple task. Science teachers must wrestle with highly abstract and demanding concepts, ideas which have taken humanity’s greatest minds thousands of years to formulate and refine. Communicating these great and awesome theories involves careful forethought and planning. We need to deliver crystal clear explanations, guide students as they develop their embryonic knowledge and then release them to develop their thinking independently, all the while curating and tending to their long-term understanding as it develops over time. In Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide, Adam breaks down the complex art of teaching science into its component parts, providing a concrete and comprehensive set of evidence-informed steps to nurturing brilliant science students. Adam hopes that you find this book interesting, but his main aim is for you to find it useful. Useful when it comes to sketching out your curriculum, useful when preparing your explanations, useful for mapping out how you will check student understanding and useful for all other aspects of science teaching. This is a truly complete guide, and science teachers of any experience will find it packed with ideas that are new, challenging, interesting and, most importantly, useful.Read more
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Teaching Sprints: How Overloaded Educators Can Keep Getting Better
Enhance teachers’ expertise – in every term, every school year.With all of the everyday demands of teaching, the job of improving classroom practice is a challenge for teachers and school leaders. Grounded by research and field-tested around the world, Teaching Sprints offers a professional improvement process that works in theory and practice.
Including insights from the field, and practical protocols, this book outlines a simple model for engaging in short bursts of evidence-informed improvement work. Using Teaching Sprints, teams of teachers can enhance their expertise together, in a way that is sustainable on the ground.
In Teaching Sprints, readers will find:
- three big ideas about practice improvement
- a detailed description of a simple improvement process
- advice on how to establish a routine for continual improvement
Whether you’re a classroom teacher thinking about your own practice, an instructional leader supporting colleagues to teach better tomorrow, or a school leader interested in enhancing your program for professional learning, Teaching Sprints is a must-read for you.
“Among the greatest unresolved issues within schools is developing great models of implementation: Sprints is certainly one of the breakthroughs. This book can make major improvements in schools and classrooms, ironically by focusing on tiny shifts.”
John Hattie, Laureate Professor
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Melbourne, Australia“Once in a while you come across a book that really cuts through the complexity of issues and provides a refreshing and practical approach to improving what happens in schools. This is such a book. Evidence-based, easy to read and full of down-to-earth ideas that busy teachers can implement. I love it.”
Steve Munby, Visiting Professor
University College London
Former CEO, National College for School Leadership
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Teaching the Primary Curriculum Outdoors
Research evidence consistently shows that an outdoor learning environment can improve behaviour, engagement and encourage more active participation in learning. So why keep learning in a classroom?
In reality, we know the challenges teachers face. We know the barriers that get in the way of taking learning outside. Learning through Landscapes has three decades of experience supporting teachers with the everyday challenges of teaching outdoors. Through this real life understanding of teaching and step by step guidance, this book shows you that every curriculum subject in primary schools can be taught outdoors.
Through the pages of this book, Learning through Landscapes shows you that learning outdoors not only improves the health, wellbeing and attainment of the children in your class – it also brings joy to your teaching.
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Technical Drawing for Beginners – Volume 1: With Step-By-Step Construction Guide (a practical course)
Technical Drawing for Beginners – Volume 1 is the first of many volumes to come, the books deal with the fundamentals of technical drawings – what’s more is; it is a practical course using minimal words and straight to the point approach to construction methods.Technical Drawing for Beginners takes a direct approach at learning the act of construction.
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The A-Z of Trauma-Informed Teaching: Strategies and Solutions to Help with Behaviour and Support for Children Aged 3-11
“This is a remarkable achievement. Like Batman’s Utility belt for teachers. So many practical, wise, inspiring, and achievable ideas are packed in here. I can imagine this becoming as indispensable for teachers as Gray’s Anatomy is for doctors…” – Stephen Fry
“If you want a book to assist with your work with traumatised children, choose this one. It is the best!” – Professor Peter Fonagy OBE, Chief Executive, Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families
“Humane and grounded in science, this book could change lives.” – Sir Norman Lamb, Chair of Maudsley NHS and Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition
What does trauma-informed teaching really look like in the classroom, and can we really achieve it?
Maybe you, like many other teachers, will reach the end of a busy day feeling exhausted, deskilled and less than keen to dive into a book on the theory of trauma. Luckily you won’t find any complex theory or jargon in this book, but you will gain an understanding of how small humans develop, how perplexing behaviours can be explained and learn inclusive strategies that will help all children in your classroom and school. Part 1 provides you with an explanation of what trauma-informed teaching involves. Then, Part 2 lists an A-Z of issues and behaviours for you to flip to in your busiest moments, ranging from Aggression and Lateness right through to Learning Challenges and Zzz (sleep issues).
Gain new understanding into the children in your classroom with this book offering you strategies to better support every child’s mental health and resilience.
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THE BASIC FIRE SAFETY HANDBOOK: Handbook for Schools and Workplaces
Schools and workplaces have in recent days seen major fires that were either avoidable or controllable with basic knowledge on fire safety and the right equipment. Fire safety education in most countries is not embedded in the curriculum and one only gets to learn about fire safety after completion of basic education, in most instances. This book therefore targets school and workplaces to embrace fire safety tradition by providing a well laid out steps in understanding the basics in fire safety in schools and workplaces and what to do in case of fire.Read more
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The British Dyslexia Association – Teaching Dyslexic Students: Theory and Practice
This BDA developed guide assists you in supporting children and students with dyslexia and specific learning difficulties through their education. Designed specifically for candidates on Level 5 diploma courses in dyslexia and specific learning difficulties, this hands-on guide is the perfect training companion for those wanting to know more about dyslexia and how to support individuals with dyslexia.
As an authoritative, entry-level resource covering both theory and practice, the methods, resources, and expert contributors in this book empower your learning as an educator towards better self-understanding, confidence and how to better support students in specialist and classroom settings.
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The Certificate in Education and Training
This is the core textbook for the Certificate in Education and Training. This complete guide to the Certificate, from Learning Matters, covers all the content of the mandatory units in a reader-friendly and accessible way. The text develops the reader’s practical teaching skills and, through complete coverage of the content of the qualification prepares learners to teach in a wide variety of contexts. In all chapters real life examples illustrate what the theory means in practice and a reference list gives further resources to help learners with their research and study. Relevant for all learners and all awarding organisations. The book also includes information regarding teaching practice observations and the minimum core.Read more
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The Coach’s Guide to Teaching
The mark of a great coach is a constant desire to learn and grow. A hunger to use whatever can make them better.
The best-selling author of Teach Like a Champion and Reading Reconsidered brings his considerable knowledge about the science of classroom teaching to the sports coaching world to create championship caliber coaches on the court and field. What great classroom teachers do is relevant to coaches in profound ways. After all, coaches are at their core teachers.
Lemov knows that coaches face many of the same challenges found in the classroom, so the science of learning applies equally to them. Unfortunately, coaches and organizations have a mixed level of understanding of the research and study of the science of learning. Sometimes coaches and organizations build their teaching on myths and platitudes more than science. Sometime there isn’t any science applied at all.
While there are thousands of books and websites a coach can consult to better understand technical and tactical aspects of the game, there is nothing for a coach to consult that explicitly examines the teaching problems on the field, the court, the rink, and the diamond. Until now.
Intended to offer lessons and guidance that are applicable to coaches of any sporting endeavor including everyone from parent volunteers to professional coaches and private trainers, Lemov brings the powerful science of learning to the arena of sports coaching to create the next generation of championship caliber coaches.
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The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) 2021: The statutory framework (Learning Matters)
The early years foundation stage (EYFS) sets standards for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5 years old. All schools and Ofsted-registered early years providers must follow the EYFS, including childminders, preschools, nurseries and school reception classes.This handbook presents the Early Years Foundation Stage (updated in 2021) as a handy reference copy for early years practitioners whether in training or in practice.
A must have resource for early years staff and trainees.
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The Educator’s Guide to LGBT+ Inclusion: A Practical Resource for K-12 Teachers, Administrators, and School Support Staff
The rates of bullying, truancy due to lack of safety in schools, and subsequent suicidality for LGBT+ youth are exponentially higher than for non-LGBT+ youth. As a result, many American K-12 students are suffering needlessly and many school leaders are unsure of what to do. This book solves that problem. Setting out best practices and professional guidance for creating LGBT+ inclusive learning in schools, this approachable and easy to follow book guides teachers, educators, administrators, and school staff toward appropriate and proven ways to create safer learning environments, update school policies, enhance curricula, and better support LGBT+ youth as they learn.
Featuring real-life situations and scenarios, a glossary, and further resources, this book enables professionals in a variety of school roles to integrate foundational concepts into their everyday interactions with students, families, and staff to create an overall school culture that nurtures a welcoming, inclusive, and affirming environment for all. This book can be utilized by independent readers, department teams, and entire school district reading experiences.
This book also includes brand new, never before seen postcards from PostSecret as its foreword and its afterword is written by James Lecesne, co-founder of The Trevor Project. Also inside is the very first (and likely only ever) interview by the leaders of “Parents of Transgender Children,” the world’s largest support group of its kind.
**An audiobook version will become available in Spring 2020!
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The Expert Teacher: Using pedagogical content knowledge to plan superb lessons
In ‘The Expert Teacher: Using pedagogical content knowledge to plan superb lessons’, Darren Mead presents an engaging, research-informed view on which teaching strategies work best to induce long-term learning in students.
But what does this look like in the classroom?
This question generally occurs to educators when they enquire into evidence-based approaches to teaching and often they will get to the end of a teaching manual only to find that it remains unanswered.
In ‘The Expert Teacher’, however, Darren Mead provides many of the answers.
One of the most universally respected teachers in Britain, Darren has devoted his professional life to attaining pedagogical excellence. In this book he examines in depth what expert teachers do to help students progress their learning and strive for academic success.
He lays bare the concept of pedagogical content knowledge and eloquently explains how to utilise it to overcome student misconceptions, create contexts and connections in learning and teach difficult and important content empowering educators to transform their subject knowledge into multiple means of representing it in teachable ways.
The intention of ‘The Expert Teacher’ is to help teachers to reflect on what and how they plan, how they teach and how to improvise around these plans, and to pave the way for deep professional thinking about best practice. It is split into two parts entitled How is Your Subject Learned? and Expert Teaching and Learning and provides educators with a variety of practical tools, illuminating examples and flexible frameworks geared to help them underpin and reinforce the very ampersand in expert teaching & learning.
A warning though: this book is not for teachers seeking quick fixes or superficial tricks. ‘The Expert Teacher’ is for educators who are eager to experience the excitement of knowing and teaching their subject masterfully.
Suitable for all teachers in all settings.
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The Last Wild Trilogy Piers Torday 3 Books Bundle Collection (The Last Wild, The Wild Beyond, The Dark Wild) (The Last Wild Trilogy)
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively Piers Torday The Last Wild Trilogy 3 Books Bundle Collection The Last Wild This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn’t know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this 1. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom. 2. They are talking to him. 3. His life will never be quite the same again…A captivating animal adventure destined to be loved by readers of all ages. The Dark Wild Twelve year old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was over. He was wrong. Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, a dark wild remains animals who believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies. And soon Kester realises he is the only one who can stop them. Kester Jaynes saved the animals. Can he save the humans too? The Wild Beyond This is the story of a boy named Kester. He has rescued the last wild animals in the world, and saved his capital city from destruction. But now he must face his greatest challenge yet, because 1. The only blue whale on the planet has brought news from across the ocean 2. A mysterious steel dome has risen from the Four Towers 3. Out there, somewhere, a brave mouse holds the key to the future…Read more
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The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenge, and Love Learning
How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years?We trust the school system to prepare our kids for the future. We get excited when they get good grades, or disappointed if they don’t. But we rarely stop to question whether school is teaching our children the right things in the right way.
Kids could get good at playing the game of school, but are they really learning?
Teacher-turned-edupreneur Ana Lorena Fábrega, known by her students as Ms. Fab, invites us to rethink education.
In The Learning Game, she reveals how traditional schooling has gone wrong, and proposes a series of actionable strategies to help kids learn.
What if we guide kids to think for themselves?
Should we encourage kids to take risks and tackle projects of their own?
How do we help kids learn to love learning?Answering these questions and many more, The Learning Game will arm you with practical tools to design a new approach to learning―one that leaves behind the game of school and prepares your kids for the game of life.
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The Learning Rainforest: Great Teaching in Real Classrooms
What really stunned me about this book is the way that Tom has taken the research evidence that does exist, and woven it into a powerful vision of how education can transform lives, even in the most challenging settings. I know of many books that do a great job of summarizing the research on reading, on memory, on assessment, on feedback, and so on. I do not know of a single other book that addresses so well all the threads that have to be woven together to create great schools, in such a readable way.” – Dylan WiliamThe Learning Rainforest captures different elements of our understanding and experience of the art and science of teaching. It is a celebration of great teaching and the intellectual and personal rewards that it brings. It’s aimed at all teachers; busy people working in complex environments with little time to spare. The core of the book is a guide to making teaching both effective and manageable using a three-part structure: establishing conditions; building knowledge; exploring possibilities. It provides an accessible summary of key contemporary evidence-based ideas about teaching, curriculum and assessment and the debates that all teachers should be engaging in. It’s packed with strategies for making great teaching attainable in the context of real schools. The author’s ideas about what constitutes great teaching are drawn from his experiences as a teacher and a school leader over 30 years, alongside everything he has read and the debates he’s engaged with during that time.
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The Lecturer’s Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching
The fifth edition of The Lecturer’s Toolkit addresses the needs and aspirations of all lecturers teaching in tertiary education. With a focus on practical, implementable strategies to enhance learning experiences and ensure best practice, it covers all of the need-to-know information crucial to teaching success.
Pinpointing aspects of teaching excellence, the challenges and stresses of teaching and adapted to cover digital and online learning as well as face-to-face contexts, this new edition covers:
- designing and using learning outcomes
- face-to-face, online and peer dialogues
- using web extracts, video-clips, phones, tablets and social media in large group teaching
- how online learning relates to the larger contexts of lectures and MOOCs
- cheating, plagiarism, essay mills and online assessment
- how particular aspects fit into the bigger picture of a module/course/degree/life
- ensuring you’re looking after yourself
Based on four decades of experience of higher education, The Lecturer’s Toolkit is written with authority and clarity in a jargon-free style. This invaluable guide is a must-read for every higher education professional.
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The Montessori Book for Kindergarten and Preschool: 150 creative activities for ages 3 to 6 – a practical guide for parents to raise independent and confident children…
Support Your Child’s Development with Montessori Education!
Playfully promote independence and self-confidence with 150 practical exercises for home use for children aged 3 to 6.
As parents, we bear the great responsibility of raising our children to be independent, self-confident individuals while protecting them from stress and pressure. However, this is often easier said than done in the tension of everyday life.
This book offers the solution:
This book’s creative and unique activities will help your child unleash their vast creativity, build substantial self-confidence, and fully utilize their enormous potential.
They will benefit from this throughout their lives!
At the same time, your child will be shielded from harmful sensory overload, stress, and pressure. This prevents severe mood swings and feeling overwhelmed, significantly improving their quality of life.
Your key advantages at a glance:
- INDEPENDENCE: This book greatly fosters your child’s independence through everyday activities, providing immediate relief in your daily life.
- SPECIFICITY: This book is precisely made to meet the needs of children aged 3-6. This maximizes the benefits of sensory development, self-confidence, and independence.
- TIME-SAVING: The FAQs answer the most commonly asked questions by other parents, including: When should my child start reading and doing arithmetic? How does Montessori education affect school performance? Is Montessori affordable? Save yourself the time-consuming Internet research.
- PREPARATION: This book clearly illustrates what your child will learn at each stage. It allows you to effortlessly prepare to identify your child’s weaknesses and actively foster their strengths.
- ALL-AROUND LEARNING: With the activities in this book, your child will learn in every area, helping prevent school difficulties.
- MONTESSORI MADE SIMPLE: Almost all ideas in the book can be easily implemented with everyday items. This allows you to carry out the activities at low costs and without complications, even in a stressful daily life.
Click on “Buy Now” in the top right corner to become a Montessori parent, successfully support your child and create unforgettable memories together!
Your child will thank you for it.
Suitable for parents and educators. Also ideal as a gift.
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The Neurodiversity Handbook for Trainee Teachers
Considering a neurodivergent world is vital in society today, and even more so in the classroom. This book will support your knowledge and development as a trainee teacher so you can better understand the complexities of working with neurodivergent pupils. Starting with a model of difference rather than deficit, this book will guide trainee teachers to understand neurodiversity within the classroom, providing strategies which aim to support their students.Dr Sarah Alix is Initial Teacher Training Programme Director with the Sigma Trust
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The Practical Guide to Getting Subject Leaders to THRIVE!
The curriculum is the driving force for excellent teaching and learning in any school. Yet, in primary schools, the curriculum is often led by class teachers who have little or no time to give to this vital part of their role. Subject leaders have the potential to rapidly improve the way a curriculum is taught, but the challenges they face can seem insurmountable.
The Practical Guide to Getting Subject Leaders to THRIVE! tackles these issues head-on with a framework rooted in educational research. Sebastian Olway’s six-step THRIVE framework provides school leaders with a structure to support subject leaders and unlock their potential. The framework can also be used to guide an impactful series of professional development meetings, or to offer strategies, tips and resources for individual subject leaders.
Whether you’re a primary school headteacher, a senior leader, an experienced subject leader or brand new to the role, this book will help your school to THRIVE!
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The Really Useful Primary Design and Technology Book: Subject knowledge and lesson ideas
The Really Useful Primary Design and Technology Book brings together essential subject knowledge and pedagogy to support and inspire those planning to teach D&T in the primary school. Offering comprehensive coverage of the 2014 National Curriculum, as well as exciting ideas to extend beyond it, the book is packed full of everything the busy teacher needs to be able to develop children’s key skills and techniques, and a range of big and small projects to put them into practice.
With crucial subject knowledge explained in detail, useful ‘How To’ guides at the end of each chapter reinforce the skills and technology covered with instructions for making a variety of models. Sets of lesson plans include information on the resources needed to support both more and less able children, and assessment guidance, ‘Top Tips’ and ‘Things to Consider’ provide extra help and inspiration.
Key topics covered include:
- cooking and nutrition
- textiles and the design cycle
- IT control and monitoring
- mechanisms
- structures
- electronic systems
- the roles and responsibilities of the DT leader
- assessment of D&T.
The Really Useful Primary Design and Technology Book provides all the information a new teacher needs to be able to teach D&T confidently, and with valuable cross-curricular links and photocopiable templates, even experienced teachers and subject leaders will find fresh inspiration for their lessons.
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The Revision Revolution: How to build a culture of effective study in your school
Have you ever wondered why your students don’t revise? Or why they revise ineffectively? Often, they simply don’t know how. This is where The Revision Revolution comes in.
What if, instead of just telling students to revise, we taught them explicit study skills from Year 7? What if we made revision enjoyable, even irresistible? The aim is not just to help students pass exams, but to embed their learning and help them grow into knowledgeable and informed young adults.
In this book, Helen Howell and Ross Morrison McGill guide you step by step through how to start and sustain a revision revolution in your school, building a culture of effective study that flows through all aspects of school life.
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The Seven C’s of Positive Behaviour Management (Alphabet Sevens)
In this ‘at a glance’ guide, Sue Cowley introduces teachers to the key principles of Positive Behaviour Management – her ‘Seven C’s’. This book offers practical and realistic strategies that you can use to improve behaviour in your classroom and your school – immediately. Whatever age group you teach, her ideas will help and inspire you. Sue Cowley is renowned among both new and experienced teachers for the honest and helpful nature of her advice. Here she condenses all her expertise and experience into a mini guide that is quick to read and indispensable to own. Whether you’re brand new to the profession, or you’ve been teaching for years, this book will give you useful and creative strategies for managing behaviour, and a boost to your classroom management skills. Written by a UK author, this book will also be useful for teachers right around the world. Mini guide: approx. 50 pages (10,000 words)Read more
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The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide: How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic
Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards – Silver Medal Winner
Nautilus Silver Book Award Winner
Purple Dragonfly Book Awards – First Place“Never be ashamed of being different: it is this difference that makes you extraordinary and unique.”
This essential go-to guide gives you all the advice and tools you’ll need to help you flourish and achieve what you want in life. From the answers to everyday questions such as ‘Am I using appropriate body language?’ and ‘Did I say the wrong thing?’, through to discussing the importance of understanding your emotions, looking after your physical and mental health and coping with anxiety and sensory overloads, award-winning neurodiversity campaigner Siena Castellon uses her own experiences to provide you with the skills to overcome any challenge.
With practical tips on friendships, dating, body image, consent and appearance, as well as how to survive school and bullying, The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide gives you the power to embrace who you are, reminding you that even during the toughest of teen moments, you are never alone.
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The Spelling Book: Transforming the Teaching of Spelling (Year 6)
Transform the teaching of spelling to Year 6 students!
In this series of books, Jane Considine reveals her structured, rigorous system to teach spelling. Built on the fundamentals of teaching spelling with strong phonic foundations, The Spelling Book has around 150 pages of activities and guidance that will transform your teaching of spelling, ensuring your pupils become better spellers for life.
By breaking down the learning of spelling with repetitive contextual learning, this book can help teachers fix their work life balance and reduce the need for spelling tests or spelling homework. The activities within the book meet all National Curriculum statutory requirements and objectives while building on them. Suitable for SEND and EAL pupils and for low-attaining/all-attaining levels.
The Spelling Book is structured into weekly activities and investigations, functioning as a framework for lesson planning and resources for children and teachers to refer to. These books for Years 2 – 6 are referential and build on learning from earlier years to prepare pupils for later National Curriculum learning requirements.
Jane Considine is an experienced educational practitioner and author of revolutionary learning resources with over 25 years in literacy consultancy. Jane launched The Training Space in 2004, a place for supporting teachers, parents and pupils in maximising learning for EYFS, KS1 and KS2 students.
“The Spelling Book not only provides an implementable and comprehensive overview of spelling for Primary school senior leaders, but excitingly also provides a system of highly-engaging resources for classroom teachers to use and their pupils to love!” – Andrew Jennings, The Vocabulary Ninja
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The Super Quick Guide to Learning Theories and Teaching Approaches
Learning theories and teaching approaches summarised, explained and critiqued for trainee teachers.
This book offers an overview of essential learning theories and teaching approaches in a nutshell. It empowers trainee teachers with the key knowledge to understand how individuals learn and the most effective ways to teach them. Engaging in thought-provoking discussions, readers are encouraged to critically examine theoretical challenges and limitations while discovering the interconnectedness of various theories. The guide also provides direction for further study, ensuring a well-rounded educational foundation for future teachers.
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The Teacher and the Teenage Brain: Understanding Adolescent Development, Teaching and Learning
The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education. This book offers a fascinating introduction to teenage brain development and shows how this knowledge has changed the way we understand young people. It provides a critical insight into strategies for improving relationships in the classroom and helping both adults and teenagers cope better with this stage of life.
Dr John Coleman shows how teachers and students can contribute to healthy brain development. The book includes information about memory and learning, as well as guidance on motivation and the management of stress. Underpinned by his extensive work with schools, Dr Coleman offers advice on key topics including the importance of sleep, the social brain, moodiness, risk and risk-taking and the role of hormones. This book is extensively illustrated with examples from classrooms and interviews with teachers. It explicitly links research and practice to create a comprehensive, accessible guide to new knowledge about teenage brain development and its importance for education.
Accompanied by a website providing resources for running workshops with teachers and parents, as well as an outline of a lesson plan for students, The Teacher and the Teenage Brain offers an innovative approach to the understanding of the teenage brain. This book represents an important contribution to teacher training and to the enhancement of learning in the classroom.
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The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back
Whisper it quietly: a lot of time is being wasted in a lot of schools. Actually, why are we whispering? What we should really be doing is calling this out – loudly! The job of schools is too important for us to be keeping quiet. Schools are in the ‘transforming lives’ business. There is no time to waste! In The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better), Bruce Robertson explored ‘delusions’ that are holding our schools back. In this sequel, The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back, he digs deeper into three areas: curriculum, pedagogy and leadership. In doing so, he tackles the issue of time-wasting head-on. By calling out specific delusions in each area, Robertson suggests strategies for dismantling these and offers a clear roadmap forward. Backed by a depth of research and a breadth of experience, The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back will give teachers and school leaders the supportive shake-up they need, helping them to abandon practices that aren’t making the difference they should be, and to focus on the things that will really make the biggest difference to students in our schools.Read more
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The Teaching Delusion 3: Power Up Your Pedagogy
Hands up if you’ve ever been given lesson observation feedback that you didn’t understand, didn’t agree with, or just thought was plain rubbish. If your hand is in the air, you’re in good company! When it comes to teachers receiving high-quality feedback that helps them improve their teaching, we have a serious issue in our schools. Teachers want to improve their teaching. They embrace any opportunity to learn. They want other professionals to watch them teach and to get into conversations about developing their practice. What they don’t want is to be criticised, patronised, sent down blind alleys, or left utterly confused. Those who’ve been giving feedback telling teachers to ‘differentiate more’, ‘talk less’, or ‘let students lead their own learning’ have a lot to answer for. The Teaching Delusion 3: Power Up Your Pedagogy has been written to address the issue of teachers receiving poor feedback in our schools. As a self-improvement and coaching resource, it is essential reading for all teachers and school leaders. Through a detailed exploration of 12 key elements of pedagogy, author Bruce Robertson sets out a clear, researched-informed guide to improving pedagogy in every classroom, across every school. By highlighting key features of effective practice and a broad range of techniques teachers can focus on developing, this practical guidebook will be valued by professionals in all sectors, regardless of experience. The Teaching Delusion 3: Power Up Your Pedagogy completes The Teaching Delusion trilogy with a bang!Read more
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The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual: No textbooks, minimal equipment just fantastic lessons anywhere: 1
Thinking about teaching English, but don’t know where to start?
Pick up a copy of The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual and discover a skill that will serve you for the rest of your life.
What people are saying about The Ultimate ESL Manual on the Amazon.
‘What a great book! Andromeda’s knowledge and experience shines through. She gets straight to the point, gives very clear grammar explanations and loads of practical help,’ Sheila Longden.
‘This is a one-stop shop for preparing powerful classes that throws out the need for costly and confusing text books. Priceless!’ Amazon Customer.
‘Great book, saved me hours of prep! Each grammar point comes with its own speaking activity so you won’t run out of ideas about what to teach your students,’ TeacherA24.
The Ultimate Teaching ESL Manual is a complete English teaching system designed so that any native speaker (with TEFL experience or not) can pick up the book and start teaching.
With this book you will have the power to:
o Start teaching English online or in the classroom now with a step-by-step guide on how to teach every grammar point in the English language.
o Teach vocabulary with over 60 lexical sets covering beginner, intermediate, advanced to super-advanced levels.
o Keep your students engaged with follow-on activities for every lesson including role plays, games and problem solving activities.
o Cut down on preparation time with lesson plans for all language points.
o Add interest to your classes with an appendix full of illustrated worksheets which manual owners can download in high resolution from the book’s website.
o Travel light and save money on expensive textbooks with everything you need to teach English in one book.
o Provide students with fantastic lessons they want with a methodology focused on language learning through speaking practice.The Manual teaches a methodology whereby students learn through speaking activities (rather than traditional textbooks) mimicking how we learnt our native language as children.
Students make rapid progress with the constant speaking practice, while for the teacher, lessons are creative and rewarding, giving you the power to decide what to teach and how.
Classes are simple, effective and take less time to prepare as there are no handouts to worry about, exercises to mark or any of the other work that comes with traditional ESL teaching.
The Manual includes lesson plans, drills and speaking activities for every grammar point as well as methodology, games, vocabulary sets and a whole host of other stuff to make your classes special.
Dive in and discover a skill for life.
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The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation: Achieving Excellence for All
This book is the ultimate guide to differentiation in early years, schools and further education settings by Sue Cowley, bestselling author of Getting the Buggers to Behave. It offers over 90 practical and time-saving strategies for effective differentiation in every classroom.The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation demonstrates how teachers already differentiate much of the time, in subtle and creative ways. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use to differentiate, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. The book takes the reader through the different methods and approaches to differentiation, providing a step-by-step guide to each. It is broken down into five core areas – planning, resources, learners, teaching and assessment – and readers can dip in and out to find strategies as and when they need them.
Written in Sue’s much loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to feel confident that they are meeting the needs of every learner.
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The Ultimate Teaching ESL Online Manual: Tools and techniques for successful TEFL classes online: Volume 3 (The Ultimate Teaching ESL Manual series)
Ever thought about teaching English online?
ESL teaching online today is booming; top teachers are never short of clients and charge handsomely for their services, all while working from the comfort of their own home.
Pick up a copy of the Ultimate Teaching ESL Online Manual today and join them, either as a side hustle or a full-time occupation.
Using the techniques in this book, I became a top-rated teacher on a well-known platform in less than four months. Since then I have taught back-to-back classes and often have to turn away clients.
The Ultimate Teach ESL Online Manual reduces the learning curve new online teachers face from months to days, establishing your reputation as a fantastic online ESL teacher right from the first lesson and building that loyal client list who’ll keep coming back for more.
With this book you will have the power to:
o Establish yourself on language learning platforms like Verbling and Italkie.
o Attract students from day one with a stand-out introduction video.
o Build a loyal client list by teaching fantastic English classes especially designed for an online environment.
o Avoid common mistakes that new online teachers make which lose them students.
o Teach vocabulary and grammar online with 28 pages of downloadable pictures for you to display in your lessons.
o Keep your students talking with speaking activities including role plays, debates and story-telling, specifically designed for online lessons. o Teach language points, difficult to explain in a ‘non-physical’ class (such as pronouns, prepositions of place, conditionals and movement verbs) with purposely designed pictures and worksheets.The Ultimate Teach ESL Online Manual is part of The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual series: a complete English teaching system designed so that any native speaker (with TEFL experience or not) can pick up the book and start teaching.
Dive in and discover a skill which will serve you for the rest of your life.
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