A book full of practical tips, ideas and guidance for embedding high quality Music lessons into Primary Curriculum teaching. This book has been written specifically for teachers without a Musical background, however, teachers with musical training will also benefit from the array of ideas within. Lessons have been designed without the need for musical instruments to ensure that even the classrooms with minimal resources can still access the learning, even so, using the instruments available to you is highly encouraged.

Content can be extended and adapted easily to ensure a high quality music education that can last the academic year. Lesson ideas are scaffolded to suit every year group, ensuring that all students are challenged, or supported, throughout.

Suitable for new teachers & experienced teachers, non-musicians & musicians.

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‘This is a book that all teachers, not just biology teachers should read.’
—Ben Strathearn-Burrows, Head of Biology, Emanuel School

Introduction
I’ve been motivated to discover what biology is to us as humans. What it means to understand biology, and how I could make it meaningful for my students. I’ve read as much as I could and reflected, I’ve discussed and listened, I’ve taught and observed. This book is about sharing what I’ve learnt with my secondary-school mixed-attainment biology classes.

‘Not only is this book likely to change how you teach biology but also how you perceive yourself within the living world.’
—Dr Alex Sinclair, Institute of Education, St Mary’s University, Twickenham

What you’ll find inside:

• A vision for an integrated and meaningful biology education.
• A framework for teaching for meaning-making, which cuts planning time.
• Ways of creating a unified narrative across disparate topics.
• A taxonomy of understanding that unlocks problem-solving with minimal workload.
• Tried and tested examples from mixed-attainment biology classrooms.

Chapter 1: Meaningful biology relates principally to organisms:
This sets the scene for the whole book. It brings together many threads to define what I see as most meaningful to secondary biology students. And therefore what we could do about it when designing our lessons & curricula and thinking about how students progress through their biology education. Planning for meaning-making has vastly enhanced interest and motivation to learn in my classroom.

Chapters 2 & 3: Teaching for meaning using variation theory:
Next I introduce a powerful—relatively unknown and often misunderstood—pedagogical theory. Variation theory. In these chapters I set out to show how useful it is—and easy to use—in the secondary biology classroom, with many examples.

Chapter 4: How to integrate organisms, ecology & evolution:
Now I pull together the previous chapters to present a new framework for teaching for meaning-making that cuts planning time & focuses on biology.

‘An excellent text demanding we think not just about what we teach but also why and how.’
—Dr Paul Ganderton, Consultant and researcher

Chapter 5: Concepts of the organism that unite a biology course:
Here I discuss two concepts that I think can unify all the topics on the curriculum.
1. Seeing biology through thermodynamic systems lens and
2. Seeing biology through an ecological-evolutionary lens via the concept of life strategies. I lay out the reasons why and discuss how I’ve introduced these ideas with students.

Chapter 6: Teaching systems thinking to help students see interconnectedness:
I show how stock and flow diagrams are very useful for the biology classroom and give examples. Next, I introduce a new taxonomy of understanding biological systems that unlocks problem-solving in biology.

Chapter 7: Establishing a thinking classroom:
This chapter is focused on the whys and hows of embedding the taxonomy into biology curricula. I give examples of how I use it and examples of my students answers from lower and upper secondary courses.

Chapter 8: Navigating classroom and biological complexity:
This chapter rounds up the book by considering the complexity of our subject and the classroom.

‘Biology Made Real comes with an education health warning—be prepared to have your beliefs challenged.’
—Dr Alex Sinclair

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???? Show your appreciation for the ones who have done the most for your education, future, and life with this beautiful teacher’s notebook commemorating the difference they made.

Everybody has that one exceptional teacher that has completely changed their life – Teacher Gift: Never Forget The Difference You’ve Made is a teacher’s appreciation journal that reminds them how important they are.

With 120 lined pages and a gorgeously designed soft matte cover, this teacher’s notebook is the perfect appreciation gift for teachers of all grade levels and subjects. Give them a keepsake they can treasure forever and use daily for notes, thoughts, or planning.

Description:

• Cover: Soft, Matte
• Paper color: white
• Size: 7 x 10 inches (similar to B5 and easily fits into smaller bags of purses)
• 120 pages

Whether you share it with a current educator or one from a previous year, Teacher Gift: Never Forget The Difference You’ve Made is a wonderful addition to the desk of that remarkable teacher, mentor, or professor you hold in your heart.

Buy your copy now and show your gratitude to your favorite teacher today!

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