From Wellbeing to Welldoing

Abby Osborne works at the University of Bath in the Centre for Learning and Teaching as their Assessment and Feedback Lead. She has extensive experience of mentoring and tutoring students, from secondary to further and higher education. In addition, she now works as a Consultant to support busy teachers to develop their inclusive practice.Through her work with students and teachers, Abby has developed many practical strategies to overcoming multiple barriers to learning which we all face. She has recently published two books on inclusive teaching and learning and worked with teachers across the globe, covering the educational journey from primary to post- graduate study. Karen Angus-Cole has a number of years’ experience teaching in UK secondary schools and tutoring students. She previously worked in the University of Bath′s Centre for Learning and Teaching where she supported teaching staff to develop effective curricula centred on student learning. Now she is a Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University, focussing on pedagogy and assessment. Karen also provides education consultancy, designing learning materials for students as well as professional development workshops for teaching staff. She has worked for the BBC to create Bitesize revision resources for secondary school students, as well as Cambridge University and Cambridge Assessment International Education as a Trainer and resource developer.Loti Venables is a SEN teacher within a mainstream secondary school, delivering Alternative Provision to a range of vulnerable, disadvantaged and SEN students. With a degree in Illustration and Graphics, she applies her visual way of seeing the world to produce supporting academic materials and pastoral guides within her department. Loti has worked for over two decades in teaching working as an art specialist within a SEN setting, as a secondary school art teacher delivering GCSE and A level and recently combining both skill sets to deliver Art as an Alternative Provision, with a focus on mentoring, social and life skills.

A wonderfully insightful, informative guide full of useful strategies and tips and written in a very accessible way, extremely important if you’re dyslexic like my boys. Sure it will be a huge success with students, parents and teacher alike.

• Chapter 1: Welcome to WelldoingChapter 2: Cognitively comfy learning: Manage your environment to boost your learning potentialChapter 3: Time and task savvy learning: Adapt and flex your schedule for efficient learningChapter 4: Stress-free learning (well almost!): Pro-actively manage your varied life demands and reduce unnecessary stressChapter 5: Reader’s and writer’s block: Adapt how you interact with the page to get started with reading and writing tasksChapter 6: Recipes for planning and writing: Handy recipes to help you successfully cook-up great pieces of writingChapter 7: The revision elevator: Strategies to give your revision a lift!Chapter 8: Walking a tightrope: The safety net approach to thriving rather than surviving when public speakingChapter 9: The hurdle-free approach to group work: Anticipate, plan for and manage the challenges of working with othersChapter 10: Tempting templates: Example templates to help you put Welldoing into practice