The Thinking Teacher offers a current and reflective resource for teachers at every level who wish to transform their thinking and their practice in the classroom.
Sarah Donarski brings together chapters by Dylan Wiliam, Tom Sherrington, Alison Peacock and many others to consider the debates, critique the strategies and find solutions that not only better the progress of pupils but also assist the wellbeing and manageability of workload for staff.
A CBT Doodling Workbook for Children Who Feel Worried or Anxious
Drawn from over 15 years of experience of supporting young people with anxiety, this workbook takes an integrative approach and is a valuable resource for anyone looking to support a child experiencing worry.
A Story to Help Children Learn about Disability and Inclusion
Roxy lives in the forest with her three best friends, who she loves to visit and play games with. Roxy is in a wheelchair, so sometimes it is harder for her to go to the same places and play the same games as the other animals.
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Activities for 11-19 year olds
Essential guidance for adults teaching groups of teens about relationships & sex, this updated resource offers interactive activities/lesson plans that aid discussion around online pornography & its impact on healthy relationships & body image. Plus downloadable theory on RSE in faith schools/special schools and template forms.
Being a leader is a wonderful privilege but can also come with challenges we dont always feel prepared for. How often do we tie ourselves in knots wondering about the right way to deal with a difficult situation at work?
The Next Big Thing in School Improvement brings together the unique perspectives of a policy analyst, a headteacher, and a classroom teacher, to explain why it is that the school system often resists our attempts to improve it. This is a book about educational fads, why they arise, and how we might learn to live with them.
Mind Mechanics provides activities, worksheets and lesson plans to empower teens with the skills they need to manage their mental health throughout life. It can be used flexibly as a full programme or as a toolbox of activities to use as and when needed and is suitable for group or 1:1 work.
The ability to learn well is important in Australia's competitive work and study arenas. With this fun, effective book, ambitious people can improve performance, students can get higher marks, busy people can save time. Commonsense Australian methods turn learning into a happy experience. Companion to Read Really Fast 1875684948.
A professional learning guide for leaders that promotes creative thinking in schools and develops creative learning habits in the classroom. This leadership playbook has been published to coincide with the global release of the first PISA test results on creative thinking, the Creativity Collaboratives under way in England and the growing ......
The A - Z of School Improvement is an authoritative 'can-do' guide to all aspects of improving schools, organised around the 26 letters of the English alphabet. School improvement is about getting every detail right. The serious school leader pays attention to every aspect of school life and focuses on improving it and aiming for excellence. One ......
Teacher-Friendly Mental Health Strategies to Help You and Your Students
This guide is full of guidance and activities to support traumatized children in the classroom. It tackles the challenge of mental health in the classroom and shows how teachers can create healthy and trusting relationships with their students. It also describes how to develop a positive classroom climate by building awareness of mental health ......
"What is wrong with our schools?" is the question everyone seems to be asking, or more like screaming nowadays. Standard answers point to everything from school funding to unions to bureaucracies and more. In this book, Daniel Buck provides a different answer: flawed ideas-ideas about instruction, curriculum, even human nature itself-are the root ......
This is a book about ourselves, and our world, but it is also a book about, and for education. Education is undergoing constant scrutiny – as it should.
Early Childhood Leadership: Motivation, Inspiration, Empowerment is written in a reader-friendly style and offers a wealth of everyday strategies for creating a workplace environment that attracts and retains quality employees, motivates performance, boosts morale, and supports personnel development.
Includes new chapters on screening and diagnosis of ASD, discrete trials training, pivotal response training, verbal behaviour interventions, and structured teaching approaches. Contributors also describe interventions for using cognitive behavior therapy with children and families to treat a variety of symptoms and behaviours.
