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Adult Life Skills for Older Teens, The Big One: Money, Work & Home Edition. Vol.1&2 (Life Skills for Teens)
Suitable for both US and UK – The Practical Gift for age 15+
**Also an excellent guide for adults ***2 in 1. “THE BIG ONE” brings volumes 1 & 2 together to give you one practical guide with all the tools to grow more confident and independent and make informed decisions in your life.
Be prepared for your future with this detailed guide covering more than just the basics.
Learn all the key aspects of living independently, managing your money, how to do your best at college, ace interviews and how to get the best deal on a car and maintain it. Discover your career path, and learn the essential skills and values needed for success in the workplace and life.
Inside Adult Life Skills for Older Teens, Home Edition, you’ll discover:
- How to prepare by learning to embrace yourself, no matter how challenging this has been for you before
- How to get comfortable in the kitchen with essential kitchen tools, delicious mealtime ideas, and the best shopping tips that will save you time and money while improving your health!
- Everything you need to know about keeping your home clean. PLUS: A crash course on checking, maintaining, and enhancing your home and security!
- Learn how to form safe and healthy relationships, learn what good relationships look like
- All the essential information you need to know if you are planning on renting
- Practical ways to care for yourself, enhance your hygiene and stay physically fit. As a bonus, you’ll also learn how to protect yourself with health insurance and essential first-aid information
- Know your self-worth, how to stay positive, and how to get rid of toxicity in your life
Inside Adult Life Skills for Older Teens, Money & Work Edition, you’ll discover:
- How never go in the red by learning to manage your finances.
- Everything you need to know about choosing the right car and learning how to keep it in great working order. Plus, learn how to stay safe and street-smart!
- Discover your career path, who you are, your strengths, and how to use this information to find your desired job.
- How to ace college and get ahead. Learn how to set SMART goals effectively and develop vital critical thinking skills employers seek.
- Ace that interview! Learn how to write a great resume and cover letter and all the preparation you need before applying for a job.
- Learn essential skills to succeed in the workplace and become an effective and credible leader!
- Discover your core values to help guide you through life to help you make the right decisions for yourself.
With a handle on your finances, education, goals, and career path, only the sky’s the limit!
Are you ready to meet the best version of yourself?
Then read Adult Life Skills for Older Teens – THE BIG ONE now!
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Brilliant Teaching Assistant: What you need to know to be a truly outstanding teaching assistant (BT Brilliant Teacher)
What does it really take to become a brilliant teaching assistant?
Are you getting the most out of your current support role? Are you aware of the training and development opportunities available to you? How do you become more effective in the classroom? What can you do to take your career further?
Brilliant Teaching Assistant answers these questions and many more. Outlining the key duties and responsibilities of the role, and illustrated with examples from practical contexts, Louise Burnham will show you how to shine in the classroom and focus on your continuing professional development to aim for the next step in your career in education.
BRILLIANT OUTCOMES
- Understand the school curriculum, timetabling and planning
- Work more effectively with other school staff
- Learn what you can do to better support the pupils in your care
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Gambling, Gambling, Gone.
A young problem gamblers true story of denial, acceptance and a lifelong trial to quit gambling for good. An eye opening novel focused around the hidden dangers of gambling.Read more
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Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice: 22 (Hack Learning Series)
WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
Eliminate old-school punishments and create a community of responsible, productive learners
Are you or your teachers frustrated with carrots and sticks, detention rooms, and suspension–antiquated school discipline practices that simply do not work with the students entering our classrooms today? Our kids have complex needs, and we must empower and embrace them with restorative practices that not only change behaviors but transform students into productive citizens, accountable for their own actions.
Replace traditional school discipline with a proven system, founded on restorative justice
In a book that should become your new blueprint for school discipline, teachers, presenters, and school leaders Nathan Maynard and Brad Weinstein demonstrate how to eliminate punishment and build a culture of responsible students and independent learners. In Hack Learning Series Book 22, you learn to:
- Reduce repeated negative behaviors
- Build student self-regulation and empathy
- Enhance communication and collaboration
- Identify the true cause of negative behaviors
- Use restorative circles to reflect on behaviors and discuss impactful change
“Maynard and Weinstein provide practical tips and strategies in the context of real-world examples, guided by the imperatives of changing the behavior and preserving the relationship. An important read for teachers and administrators.” -Danny Steele, award-winning principal and co-author of Essential Truths for Principals and Essential Truths for Teachers
Before you suspend another student …
read Hacking School Discipline, and build a school environment that promotes responsible learners, who never need to be punished. Then watch learning soar, teachers smile, and your entire community rejoice.
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Strengths Gym ®: Build and Exercise Your Strengths!: ® Strengths Gym: Build and Exercise Your Strengths!: (R) Strengths Gym
Strengths Gym offers practical lesson plans enabling teachers, parents, advisors, and consultants to teach children about their own and other’s personal strengths. The material is based on findings from positive psychology and has been developed by a research psychologist and an experienced teacher. Strengths Gym looks at personal well-being from a positive perspective, by focusing on the strengths children already possess and would benefit from using more. The material presents a wide range of specific teaching strategies that can be immediately applied in various settings. Children learn to apply their own personal resources and develop their potential for the benefit of themselves and the community. The lesson plans can be used in general teaching, or in individual settings. This manual includes flexible, easy-to-use lesson plans and comprehensive student exercises exploring 24 universal strengths of character across three levels.Read more
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Teaching Assistant’s Handbook for Level 2: Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools
The perfect companion for those taking a qualification in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools at Level 2.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 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 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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When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour
In When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour, Paul Dix upends the debate on behaviour management in schools and offers effective tips and strategies that serve to end the search for change in children and turn the focus back on the adults.
You can buy in the best behaviour tracking software, introduce 24/7 detentions or scream ‘NO EXCUSES’ as often as you want – but ultimately the solution lies with the behaviour of the adults. It is the only behaviour over which we have absolute control.
Drawing on anecdotal case studies, scripted interventions and approaches which have been tried and tested in a range of contexts, from the most challenging urban comprehensives to the most privileged international schools, behaviour training expert and Pivotal Education director Paul Dix advocates an inclusive approach that is practical, transformative and rippling with respect for staff and learners. An approach in which behavioural expectations and boundaries are exemplified by people, not by a thousand rules that nobody can recall.
When the Adults Change, Everything Changes illustrates how, with their traditional sanction- and exclusion-led methods, the ‘punishment brigade’ are losing the argument. It outlines how each school can build authentic practice on a stable platform, resulting in shifts in daily rules and routines, in how we deal with the angriest learners, in restorative practice and in how we appreciate positive behaviour.
Each chapter is themed and concludes with three helpful checklists – Testing, Watch out for and Nuggets – designed to help you form your own behaviour blueprint. Throughout the book both class teachers and school leaders will find indispensable advice about how to involve all staff in developing a whole school ethos built on kindness, empathy and understanding.
Suitable for all head teachers, school leaders, teachers, NQTs and classroom assistants – in any phase or context, including SEND and alternative provision settings – who are looking to upgrade their own classroom management or school behaviour plan.
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