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This is a fully up-dated second edition of the successful guide that provides teachers with a range of practical strategies to motivate pupils of all ages to be more active. Lorraine Cale and Jo Harris explore the kind of things that turn young people on and off in their PE lessons, focusing on different aspects of the PE curriculum, including athletics, gymnastics and team games. They suggest how to involve the whole school in sporting activities and include advice on encouraging students to be more healthy in general.Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of PE teaching, this book will prove essential reading for PE teachers everywhere.

This practical guide shows readers how to teach students to draw in a step-by-step way. Covering topics as diverse as shading, perspective, shapes, portraits and figures, copious examples of student work illustrates Ward's concise prose. This book is a must for all art teachers.

A fully updated second edition of Sue Cowley's wonderfully accessible guide to helping teachers develop writing strategies for children in the classroom. This new edition contains three new chapters: two on writing in primary and secondary schools and a third on developing writing strategies in different subjects. Written with her usual practicality, humour and optimism, Sue Cowley guides colleagues through all the stages of teaching writing - from motivating students to want to write through helping them shape, structure and correct their work.

A practical guide for motivating students in the science classroom. Following the winning formula of 'Getting the Buggers to Behave', this practical guide provides teachers with a range of practical strategies that can be used to motivate pupils of all ages. Christine Farmery explores the four main aspects of science study - investigations, biology, chemistry and physics - and then provides plenty of ideas for getting pupils engaged in their science lessons. She demonstrates how closely science relates to other National Curriculum subjects and makes suggestions for a range of themed events that the whole school can enjoy - from a Victorian washday to hosting a science week! Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of science teaching, this book will prove essential reading for science teachers everywhere.

The fully updated new edition of this practical guide provides teachers with a range of innovative strategies for motivating pupils of all ages in modern foreign languages. Containing new material for primary teachers, as well as more teaching tips, additional lesson ideas, and an extended directory, Amanda Barton shows how learning a language can be fun. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of modern language teaching, this book will prove essential reading for every modern language teacher.

This is a survival guide to beating bad behaviour and motivating students in FE. Susan Wallace provides readers with helpful hints and strategies for preventing lower level disruption to coping when things get really tough. Informative and engaging, this practical guide will prove essential reading for everyone in FE.

'Within this book you'll find lots of information, ideas and approaches to help you develop your students' thinking skills. As with all my books, my aim here is to give you practical strategies for developing these skills, ones that you can actually put directly into use in your classroom. As well as offering you suggestions for exercises and activities, I also cover the organizational aspects of teaching thinking in a classroom setting. The advice that I give will be applicable to teachers' right across the primary and secondary spectrum, and for those who are working in all different areas of the curriculum.' - Sue Cowley. The new edition of the best-selling book contains a brand new chapter which features the best readers' suggestions on Getting the Buggers to Think.

Difficult and unruly students are not exclusive to primary and secondary education, with bad behaviour and motivation being a major concern for many lecturers within the FE sector. This book aims to tackle disruptive behaviour at the outset with advice for coping with minor classroom misdemeanours through to full scale crises. This is a resource that all lecturers can draw upon when things get really tough.A practical and down-to-earth guide for the FE market. Well-written and lively, Angela Steward provides a range of innovative strategies to develop students' learning skills. This book will make ideal reading for trainees working towards a teacher training qualification and practising lecturers who want to develop their skills further."The Essential FE Toolkit" is "Continuum's" new series on Further Education (FE) for teachers and college leaders. The series boasts 24 specialist, fact-filled volumes written by FE experts with significant knowledge and experience in their individual fields. Competitively priced, compact and accessible, each book should prove essential reading for FE lecturers and managers.

This wonderfully accessible and practical guide provides a range of effective strategies for teaching drama. Written with her usual practicality, humour and optimism, Sue Cowley demonstrates how drama can make lessons across the curriculum more interesting and engaging. This fascinating guide is aimed both at the specialist drama teacher and at those who are interested in using drama to help them deliver other areas of the curriculum. It will also be particularly helpful to staff at primary level who have found themselves lumbered with "putting on the school play"!

This is a fully up-dated guide for teachers and trainees, containing a new chapter on getting boys into books, plus an extended directory and plenty suggestions for further reading.  Although reading is essential for every subject, very little attention has been paid to how it is taught, especially in secondary schools. This practical guide shows teachers how they can improve their students' reading skills using a variety of strategies, including setting up reading clubs, celebrating world book day and creating a reader-friendly school. Brimming with top tips and innovative advice, this book will prove invaluable to teachers everywhere.

Did you realise that properly structured homework can add the equivalent of one year to a student's full-time education? In this fully updated new edition, Julian Stern provides teachers with a wide range of practical techniques that can be used to motivate pupils of all ages to do their homework. He equips teachers with a variety of strategies for setting more effective, interesting and differentiated homework. Julian offers dozens of examples of homework tasks covering every subject in the curriculum. Brimming with innovative ideas, this book will prove essential reading for every teacher and trainee teacher.

The third edition of this bestselling book for teachers of secondary mathematics has been brought right up to date and benefits from an extra teacher voice. Together, the authors show how active learning and introducing an element of surprise can bring mathematics alive. With a firm focus on problem solving, independent exploration, thinking skills and applying maths to real-life situations, this book contains new ideas, anecdotes and strategies including brand new chapters on functional mathematics, how to make best use of assessment, and teacher and curriculum development.Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of teaching, this book is essential reading for maths teachers at any stage of their career.

''provides an excellent synopsis of a range of different aspects of student learning ... a thorough and thought-provoking book ...'' TES ''If I had to choose just one book to teach best practice for learning across the curriculum, then Getting the Buggers to Learn would be a hot contender. It is also an excellent resource for any thinking skills programme ... I wish I had had access to this book when I developed a research model for students at my school ... The book is clearly structured and sequenced [and] it is easy to navigate your way round and find information quickly ... Don''t walk, run to your local bookshop and order a copy of this book immediately.'' Teacher review The new edition of this successful book is an invaluable guide for teachers, containing a variety of strategies to develop students'' learning skills. Covering everything from traditional learning approaches to more innovative methods, such as how technology and the media can be used to great effect, Duncan Grey writes accessibly and entertainingly. Brimming with top tips and innovative advice, this book will prove extraordinarily helpful to teachers everywhere. This edition features fully-updated sections on assessment, teaching and learning styles and thinking skills.

Part of the hit 'Getting...' series: A thoroughly practical guide for teachers, offering a whole host of ways to help all their students to improve their writing skills.In this third edition, bestselling author Sue Cowley offers advice on improving skills and confidence, and getting students excited about writing - not just in literacy or English, but across the curriculum. This book is full of engaging and creative approaches for writers at all stages of confidence and competence: from children just starting to write, to experienced learners looking to perfect their own style. This edition includes new material on:· writing in the digital age· creative ideas for getting boys to write· cross-curricular writing projectsOn the companion website you'll find lots of useful extras, including advice about the teacher as writer - how you can use your writing skills beyond the school. This thoroughly practical guide will interest all educators who want to maximise the potential of every one of their students. It is an invaluable resource for teachers working at secondary and FE level, but equally a source of inspiration and practical advice for practitioners in primary schools.

A fully up-dated second edition of Sue Cowley's wonderfully accessible guide to helping teachers develop writing strategies for children in the classroom. The new edition contains three new chapters: two on writing in elementary and high schools and a third on developing writing strategies in different subjects. With the practicality, humour and optimism that characterize all her teaching and writing, Sue Cowley guides colleagues through all the stages of teaching writing-from motivating students to want to write through helping them shape, structure and correct their work.

This invaluable guide for principals and classroom teachers containspractical guidance on tackling truancy in schools. Brimming with adviceon dealing with bullying, raising pupils' self-esteem as well as helpingthem cope with the trauma of transferring schools, Ian McCormackwrites accessibly and entertainingly. His firm belief that disaffected pupilswill only respond if they feel they have a voice underpins his writing. Thisbook will prove invaluable to frustrated teachers everywhere.

"There is a necessary balance between knowledge and knowing how to find out - between having the key facts in your head, having the understanding of how to use them, and having the skill to draw on extra resources too. Information literacy is as important as traditional reading literacy and it incorporates a wide range of skills which are essential in the modern world. Many of the skills already feature in the curriculum, though because they are not usually brought together, too often there is no coherent approach to how they are learned. They are relevant to every teacher and every pupil; they feature in every curriculum subject; they are cross-curricular in every sense - yet because they belong to everyone they are owned by no-one." Duncan GreyThis fascinating and innovative book contains a variety of strategies to help teachers develop students' information and literacy skills. Accessible and entertaining, Duncan Grey's superb guide brims with practical strategies and lesson ideas to help every student to answer every question!

The third edition of this bestselling book for teachers of secondary mathematics has been brought right up to date and benefits from an extra teacher voice. Together, the authors show how active learning and introducing an element of surprise can bring mathematics alive. With a firm focus on problem solving, independent exploration, thinking skills and applying maths to real-life situations, this book contains new ideas, anecdotes and strategies including brand new chapters on functional mathematics, how to make best use of assessment, and teacher and curriculum development.Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of teaching, this book is essential reading for maths teachers at any stage of their career.

This is a survival guide to beating bad behaviour and motivating students in FE. Susan Wallace provides readers with helpful hints and strategies for preventing lower level disruption to coping when things get really tough. Informative and engaging, this practical guide will prove essential reading for everyone in FE.

This is a survival guide to beating bad behaviour and motivating students in FE. Susan Wallace provides readers with helpful hints and strategies for preventing lower level disruption to coping when things get really tough. Informative and engaging, this practical guide will prove essential reading for everyone in FE.

'provides an excellent synopsis of a range of different aspects of student learning ... a thorough and thought-provoking book ...' TES 'If I had to choose just one book to teach best practice for learning across the curriculum, then Getting the Buggers to Learn would be a hot contender. It is also an excellent resource for any thinking skills programme ... I wish I had had access to this book when I developed a research model for students at my school ... The book is clearly structured and sequenced [and] it is easy to navigate your way round and find information quickly ... Don't walk, run to your local bookshop and order a copy of this book immediately.' Teacher review The new edition of this successful book is an invaluable guide for teachers, containing a variety of strategies to develop students' learning skills. Covering everything from traditional learning approaches to more innovative methods, such as how technology and the media can be used to great effect, Duncan Grey writes accessibly and entertainingly. Brimming with top tips and innovative advice, this book will prove extraordinarily helpful to teachers everywhere. This edition features fully-updated sections on assessment, teaching and learning styles and thinking skills.