The 'BrainCanDo' Handbook of Teaching and Learning: Practical Strategies to Bring Psychology and Neuroscience into the Classroom

The 'BrainCanDo' Handbook of Teaching and Learning provides teachers and school leaders with a concise summary of how some of the latest research in educational neuroscience and psychology can improve learning outcomes. It aims to create a mechanism through which our growing understanding of the brain can be applied in the world of education. Subjects covered include memory, social development, mindsets and character. Written by practising teachers working in collaboration with researchers, the chapters provide a toolkit of practical ideas which incorporate evidence from psychology and neuroscience into teaching practice with the aim of improving educational outcomes for all. By increasing both teachers' and pupils' understanding of the developing brain, 'BrainCanDo' aims to improve cognitive performance and attainment, foster a love of learning and enable a healthy and productive approach to personal development. This book will appeal to educators, primarily those working in secondary schools, but also those within higher and primary school education. It will also be of interest to students of education, professionals looking to enhance their teaching, and researchers working in the fields of education, psychology or neuroscience.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

David Fulton Publishers

Healthy, Active and Outside!: Running an Outdoors Programme in the Early Years

'There’s a growing awareness that for the good of their health, children need to be out and about more, with their friends, exploring the outdoor world in their own way.' - Nicola Butler, Director of the Free Play Network  It is widely acknowledged that children today do not get outdoors often enough and there are serious concerns about children's activity levels and rising associated behavioural, mental and health problems. With such structured and technology-driven lives, it is easy for young children to stay indoors, play on computers and not socialise with other children in a healthy and active way.   This book not only supports 'playing out' as an integral part of children’s natural growth and development, but also provides early years workers with a full programme of outdoor physical activities to promote physical, social and behavioural skills.  This book is a guidebook to setting up an outdoor physical activity programme in any early years setting. The book focuses on how getting outdoors and taking part in physical activities will provide children with positive fun experiences to enhance their general learning and development. The programme can be adapted to suit any timescale - from a whole term to one or two days.  Key features include showing practitioners:    how to make the most of their outdoor area for all children   step by step explanations to the outdoor activities   how to engage participants (including parents)   how to set up and plan activities   ideas for group and individual assessment   how to carry out risk assessments    how an outdoors programme can change children's lives for the better.

Politics & Social Sciences

Filer, Janice

Sociology

Containing real-life case studies, strategies for identification, and handy hints and tips throughout, this is the authoritative guide to tackling challenging behaviour and working effectively with children, young people and adults with severe learning difficulties (SLD), profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) and autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). With a unique approach, the author stresses the need to diagnose not only the correct difficulty but the degree of learning difficulty for a lasting resolution, as well as tackling common behavioural problems such as attention seeking and task avoidance. Chapters are split into three specific areas; SLD, PMLD and ASD/SLD, covering:  the 'Magnificent Seven' fundamental principles of challenging behaviour strategies for correct identification of the main area of learning difficulty improving teaching methods and strategies to resolve challenging behaviour, including handy hints and tips when things don’t go to plan extensive use of real case studies to illustrate strategies for resolution guidance on writing your own Behaviour Management Programme.  With its insistence that real and lasting change is both possible and achievable, this is an essential read for all professionals and parents/carers working with children, young people and adults dealing with the myriad of challenging behaviours.

Turning the Tables on Challenging Behaviour: A Practitioner's Perspective to Transforming Challenging Behaviours in Children, Young People and Adults with SLD, PMLD or ASD

Imray, Peter

1001 Brilliant Writing Ideas: Teaching Inspirational Story-Writing for All Ages

How often do you hear your pupils cry 'what can I write about?' 1001 Brilliant Writing Ideas offers teachers endless ideas and inventive suggestions, opening up new opportunities for creative writing lessons. With over 1000 different ‘story-starters’ across a vast range of genres and narrative styles, this versatile book provides food for thought for pupils of a wide range of ages and abilities.  This highly practical and richly illustrated photocopiable resource   Addresses the ‘blank mind’ dilemma, offering pupils a plethora of story-writing ideas and suggestions   Enables teachers to inspire pupils who struggle with creative writing   Provides prompts to set ideas into motion, whilst leaving plenty of scope for original and creative thought   Challenges pupils, encouraging them to use higher level thinking skills   Offers mix and match stimulus pieces which can be used independently or put together to give pupils more or less support as required  Any teacher whose inventiveness is flagging, and whose pupils are running out of ideas, will find this an essential classroom resource.

Reference

Shaw, Ron

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Professional Attributes and Practice: Meeting the QTS Standards

Drawing on the success of the first, second and third editions of Professional Values and Practice for Teachers and Student Teachers, this fully updated, comprehensive and accessible fourth edition provides practical advice to help student teachers and teachers prepare for their professional life.   This new edition contains completely new chapters in response to the changing Standards and an updated chapter by the editor, Mike Cole, entitled Education and Equality: some conceptual and practical issues, which takes into account the major changes in equalities legislation. This will enable readers to situate the topics discussed in the rest of the book, which deal with the DfES Professional Attributes Standards needed to meet the 2007 Standards for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

Education & Teaching

Cole, Mike

Schools & Teaching

Talk is the medium through which children learn; and yet children may not realise why their contributions to classroom talk are so important. This book provides teachers with resources for developing children's understanding of speaking and listening, and their skills in using talk for learning. The Essential Speaking and Listening will: <ul>
<li>help children to become more aware of how talk is valuable for learning</li> <li>raise their awareness of how and why to listen attentively and to speak with confidence </li> <li>encourage dialogue and promote effective group discussion</li> <li>integrate speaking and listening into all curriculum areas</li> <li>help every child make the most of learning opportunities in whole class and group work contexts</li> </ul> The inclusive and accessible activities are designed to increase children's engagement and motivation and help raise their achievement. Children will be guided to make the links between speaking, listening, thinking and learning and through the activities they will also be learning important skills for future life. Teachers, education students and teacher educators will find a tried-and-tested approach that makes a difference to children's understanding of talk and how to use it to learn.

The Essential Speaking and Listening

Dawes, Lyn

Teachers in English schools have now had ten years of prescriptive national literacy strategies and it is time for a new approach. This book encourages children from their early years to think of themselves as writers who have something to write and know how to write it. Creating Writers in the Primary Classroom offers an exciting and refreshing approach to teaching writing in the primary school with very practical suggestions to help build a community of writers in your school where everyone writes and loves writing. Building on the research of recent years and with whole-curriculum provision, it shows teachers how to actively engage children in the writing process, excite them about what they can achieve and help all children to think of themselves as writers. The book begins with a clear analysis of what real writers really need and has chapters on working outdoors, using the very best of children’s literature, drama and imaginative play, as well as sounds and images. It also features a chapter on practical, productive planning, including two case studies that show the approaches in use at schools. Creating Writers in the Primary Classroom is packed with practical advice, games and strategies for the classroom based on the authors’ successful experience as teachers and in-service providers. These new approaches will enable teachers to get their children up and moving, experiencing what writers experience, feeling what writers feel and, most important of all, writing how writers write.

Creating writers in the Pritmry classroom Practical approaches to inspire teachers and their pupils

Tandy, Miles

Howell, Jo

Every Parent Matters: A guide to great parent-teacher relationships

Baker, Linda

Unlocking Assessment: Understanding for Reflection and Application (Unlocking Series)

Assessment is inextricably linked with learning and teaching, and its profile in British schools has never been higher. Recently the value and importance of formative assessment in supporting learning and teaching has also become widely recognised. Although assessment is a prime concern of anyone involved in education it remains a highly complex field where much controversy and misunderstanding abounds.  This book explores the values, principles, research and theories that underpin our understanding and practice of assessment. It also provides practical suggestions and examples, and addresses some key points about the future development of assessment. The book makes accessible complex but crucial ideas and issues, so that teachers can be more confident and proactive in shaping assessment in their classrooms, in ways that support learning and avoid unintentional harmful consequences.

Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom is an essential resource to improve teaching practice, examining the key elements that contribute to a learner-centred classroom and offering strategies to encourage children to take a shared role in their learning. Including case studies describing teachers’ methods for linking theory to practice, this user-friendly, photocopiable resource demonstrates how to: <ul>
<li>construct a learning community</li> <li>encourage collaborative learning</li> <li>share strategies for engaging individual learners</li> <li>provide a scaffold for strategic thinking in the classroom</li> <li>link assessment procedures to learning</li> <li>showcase the practice and outcomes of purposeful curriculum planning.</li> </ul> Any teacher who wants to practically tailor their teaching practice to meet the needs of individual learners will find this an invaluable resource.

Creating A Learner-centred Primary Classroom: Learner-centred Strategic Teaching (David Fulton Book)

Wilson, Jeni

Murdoch, Kath

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