Getting the Buggers – serie

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"!