A practical guide on how to to teach Character in primary schools, exploring why character matters. Coverage includes the implications of character beyond the classroom and how outdoor learning and education can contribute.
A guide for teaching assistants that focuses on giving teaching assistants practical ideas and strategies on special educational needs. It covers areas such as: behavioural management; developing numeracy skills; developing literacy skills; spelling tips; developing social skills; developing handwriting; and, working on speech and language.
Teaching Creative Thinking: Developing Learners Who Generate Ideas and Can Think Critically defines and demystifies the essence of creative thinking, and offers action-oriented and research-informed suggestions as to how it can best be developed in learners.
A teacher's guide that provides educators with fresh and engaging techniques to help children increase self-awareness, manage emotions, build self-control, and develop positive relationships.
Supports trainee teachers in the development of an integrated and cross-curricular approach to learning and teaching in humanities across the primary school, including the EYFS.
Teaching Practice is an essential reference for both EFL teachers and trainers on pre-service training courses. Chapters systematically cover the main challenges for new teachers. It takes account of current methodology and is suitable for use on Cambridge CELTA courses.
The Teaching Puzzle is for teachers as well as the wider school community. The book offers a range of ideas and strategies - some of the puzzle pieces - to help your work be as effective, rewarding and enjoyable as possible. Putting the pieces together will promote emotional wellbeing, relationship skills and positive behaviour in children.
Being a "good teacher" is a difficult goal to achieve, being largely dependent on a huge variety of skills outside of the main curriculum. Teaching Skills For Dummies focuses on these 'soft' skills of teaching, from maintaining discipline to creating engaging lesson plans and monitoring performance.
Focusing on practical methods, techniques and strategies, Teaching Today has been one of the best-selling teacher training textbooks for the past 20 years. Retaining its practical and user-friendly approach, the fifth edition has been fully updated with new chapters on differentiation, equality, inclusion and working with stake-holders.
Emphasizing the positive, this guide offers teachers advice on handling students with behaviour and performance problems. Family therapist and former junior high teacher Linda Metcalf describes techniques and strategies for creating a motivational atmosphere, preventing behaviour problems, and more.
In this follow-up to the groundbreaking Teaching WalkThrus Vol 1, Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli team up with 10 experienced educators to present 50 new WalkThrus, covering key areas of teaching: behaviour and relationships; curriculum planning; explaining and modelling; questioning and feedback; practice and retrieval; and Mode B teaching.
Following the break-out success of Teaching WalkThrus Volume 1 (2020) and Volume 2 (2021), Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli present the third instalment of their five-step instructional coaching techniques. Volume 3 features 50 more essential teaching methods in the authors' concise and accessible format.
Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli team up to present 50 essential teaching techniques, each with five clear and concise illustrations and explanations. It forms a truly unique repository of key teaching methods, valuable to any classroom practitioner in any setting.
Sets out a framework for rethinking the three key areas of schooling that are most affected by technology's impact on education: knowledge as curriculum; learning and pedagogy; and, literacy across the curriculum. It analyses teaching and learning with materials such as CD-ROMs, websites, the Internet, and computer programming applications.
Living with teenagers can be more stressful and emotional than anything parents have previously experienced. This book discusses about adolescence, based on the advice of experts, interviews with parents and their children.