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| A Handbook for Classroom Instruction That Works | Answers the questions beginner teachers ask themselves regarding which strategies are the most effective for improving student achievement. More information |
| A Solution Focused Approach to Anger Management with Children: A group work manual for practitioners | Based on solution-focused brief therapy, this manual presents a range of exercises which can be photocopied for use with groups or individuals. More information |
| Building 101 ways to Learning Power | Practical ideas for teachers to engage with students and help them to become better learners More information |
| Building a Creative School | This book shows how creativity can be an approach to and an ethos for every aspect of school life and management and all subject areas. More information |
| Building Learning Power | A British-based Initiative from Guy Claxton More information |
| Building Learning Power (BLP) in Action | The book considers the role of each Learning-Power disposition on pupils learning More information |
| Classbuilding | If you want to promote a positive class atmosphere with fun and easy activities, this is the source! More information |
| Classroom Instruction That Works | Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement More information |
| Classroom Instruction That Works With English Language Learners | Find out how nine types of instructional strategies that maximize learning, can be applied to ELL students at every grade level. More information |
| Classroom Management That Works | Based on over 100 case studies of classroom management in America More information |
| Classrooms as Learning Communities | This book demonstrates a new way of seeing and managing classrooms. More information |
| Coaching Educational Leadership | Coaching Educational Leadership is about building leadershipcapacity in individuals, and in institutions, through enhancing professional relationships. More information |
| Coaching for Schools | Coaching for Schools is a practical, hands-on guide and should be essential reading for teaching professionals at every level, wanting an accessible and engaging introduction to the concept of coaching and the tools needed to put it into practice. More information |
| Communitybuilding: In the Classroom | Turn your classroom into a caring community so each student feels known, accepted, and appreciated. These easy-to-follow cooperative learning lessons create unity, build conflict resolution skills, and foster a will to work together. More information |
| Cracking the Hard Class: Second Edition | Bill Rogers, highlights many practical strategies that can be implemented to overcome the hard class syndrome. More information |
| Creative Children, Imaginative Teaching | This book sets out to explore what Creativity means in both practical and theoretical terms for children More information |
| Creative Teaching and Learning Toolkit | The book will help you make the transition from a talented teacher to a truly creative teacher, and will help you to rediscover the joy of teaching within the contemporary classroom. More information |
| Cross-Curricular Approaches to Teaching and Learning | With practical ideas on how to join-up the primary curriculum, this book uses history and geography to explore different contexts and strategies for making links between the full range of primary subjects, so that learning can be more integrated and relevant to learners. More information |
| Curriculum Leadership | This is a much needed, highly informative, and easy-to-read account of curriculum development and change for curriculum leaders, those teaching curriculum courses, and those aspiring to become curriculum decision makers. More information |
| Curriculum Mapping | This book offers teachers a customized, personalized process to prepare their curriculum while folding content into a larger curriculum map. More information |
| Deeper Learning | Based on the most current research on cognition and the brain, this exciting book for Years 4–12 provides teachers with a systematic, reflective approach to incorporating powerful learning and content processing techniques into everyday instruction. More information |
| Designing a Thinking Curriculum | A practical, first-hand account of the experiences of teachers and curriculum consultants in Australia More information |
| Developing a Thinking Classroom | A workbook for professional learning teams More information |
| Developing a Thinking Curriculum in your School | Michael Pohl outlines a five-step process that will assist schools to implement a whole-school approach to deliver thinking into the curriculum. More information |
| Differentiating Instruction in a Whole Group Setting | Presenting one simple activity at a time, Betty shows you exactly how you can ease your way into differentiation without giving up on the whole-group setting. More information |
| Effective Learning in Classrooms | This book addresses an important, and too seldom addressed issue:learning. Not teaching, not performance, not “work”; this book really is about learning, what makes learning effective and how it may be promoted in classrooms. More information |
| Effective Teachers in Primary Schools | A valuable, resource for primary teachers considering classroom observations and giving feedback, this book and DVD pack present recordings of six experienced primary teachers in action, together with clear commentary and analysis. More information |
| Effective Teachers in Secondary Schools | A valuable, reflective resource for secondary teachers considering classroom observations and giving feedback, this book and DVD pack present recordings of five experienced secondary teachers in action, together with clear commentary and analysis. More information |
| Engaging Parents Toolkit | The Engaging Parents Toolkit aims to help you to raise achievement in school through better communication with parents, by focusing on the type of parental involvement that has been proven to impact on pupil achievement the most; talking at home. More information |
| Engaging Pupil Voice to Ensure That Every Child Matters | This book offers practical guidance, recommended strategies, models of good practice and signposting to further sources of information on how best to ensure pupils make a positive contribution to improving the Every Child Matters outcomes. More information |
| Environments for Learning | Packed full of easy-to-use strategies and cutting-edge research, this book walks you through the classroom the way your students experience it – through the senses. More information |
| Focusing on Frameworks | A practical resource for managing quality in all aspects of the school More information |
| Harnessing Help | This detailed guide will show you how to make the best of adult helpers in your school. More information |
| Higher-Order Thinking - The Multiple Intelligences Way | In contrast to the traditional 'memorise and regurgitate' method of education, this book uses eight intelliigencies to show how to move students' learning from the level of acquiring basic facts and figures, to the higher-order levels of application, integration and transfer of learning. More information |
| How Children Learn | This book summarises the findings and ideas of some of the educational theorists and psychologists whose theories have influenced the way we teach today. More information |
| How to be a Successful Head of Year | This book covers every aspect of this challenging role, from leading a team of tutors and heading up a year group, to coping with problem parents, dealing with the SEN department and working effectively with the rest of the school. More information |
| How to Improve your School | This impressive book on school improvement is based on research into the experiences of pupils in UK schools More information |
| How to Manage Children's Challenging Behaviour | In this book there are numerous case studies drawn from practice, in each case showing how the teacher managed the situation and what the outcome was, and these examples from practice highlight the difference teachers can make to their students’ behaviour, attitude, self-esteem and peer acceptance. More information |
| How to Teach Habits of Mind | AT LAST! A practical book on HOW to teach the Habits of Mind. More information |
| Improving Concentration Skills | This CD resource offers a structured programme for working with children individually, which aims to help them to:listen better, be able to concentrate, learn to focus on what is relevant, improve their reasoning, learn to see and to make connections - and to transfer what they learn to subject lessons. More information |
| Improving School Behaviour | This book makes available to practitioners and students the frameworks and ideas, which will help them, minimize behaviour difficulty in school. More information |
| Improving Thinking in the Classroom (Revised) | The rationale behind Improving Thinking in the Classroom is to give teachers useful and practical strategies that will enable them to provide all their children with an engaging, exciting and challenging learning environment. More information |
| Intelligent Learning | Intelligent Learning is a complete training course for promoting curiosity, independent thinking, good dialogue and thinking skills in your school. More information |
| Involving Parents in Schools | In this practical, introductory guide, Bill Lucas explores the issues surrounding parental involvement, looking at how it can be successfully achieved with outstanding results. More information |
| It's a Girl Thing | This book looks at the differences that exist between boys and girls,how the female brain differs from the male brain, and how all of this can impact on behaviour, learning and overall growth and development. More information |
| Just Stop and Think | This resource helps educational staff to teach young people to improve their behaviour without resorting to punishment or to strategies based on lost learning opportunities. More information |
| Leadership With a Moral Purpose | In this timely book, Will Ryan gives Heads the confidence to do those things they know are right because they are right for the children, right for the staff and right for the community. More information |
| Leading Other Learners: A Practical Guide to Peer Tutor Training | This book is designed to give you the resources advice and guidance to set you off on your own Peer Tutoring journey. More information |
| Learning and Leading With Habits of Mind | Bringing together all four books in the ASCD groundbreaking Habits of Mind series, this volume presents a compelling case for why it’s more relevant than ever to align the missions of schools and classrooms to teaching students how to think and behave intelligently when they encounter problems and challenges in learning and in life. More information |
| Learning to Learn for Life 2 | This accessible guide explores realistic ways to improve education from the perspective of real teachers and their pupils, and presents strategies based on what actually works in primary classrooms. More information |
| Mathematics at Home | This brilliant resource is ideal to get parents involved with their children’s learning. Matching the KS2 numeracy topics, these fun and interactive activities cover practical tasks, such as calculating shopping bills and estimating quantities. More information |
| More Magic of Metaphor | Whether you lead in business, education, coaching, sports, health, parenting, or any other context this book offers insights into the many aspects of this complex, fascinating, and demanding role that we are all, from time to time, called upon to fulfil. More information |
| Moving to Secondary School | Moving to Secondary School helps teachers to understand and ease children's anxieties and to focus on the positive. More information |
| Multiple Intelligences:The Complete MI Book | You will promote academic success for all your students by using fun and easy MI strategies that match how all students learn best. More information |
| Never Work Harder Than Your Students | If it ever feels like teaching is just too much hard work, here’s a guide that helps you develop a more fluid and automatic way to respond to students and deliver great teaching experiences every time. More information |
| Newly Qualified Teachers | An accessible, handy guide that will prove invaluable for newly qualifi ed teachers during their induction year. More information |
| NLP for Teachers | Education is a social process this book demonstrates that it is no longer necessary to aspire to, or exhort social skills they can be developed and learnt. This is a powerful resource for all those who wish to extend their portfolio of strategies to support effective learning and teaching. More information |
| Nurturing Independent Thinkers | St John’s School and Community College in Wiltshire made headline news in challenging old ideas about homework and the National Curriculum and developed its own integrated curriculum. Nurturing Independent Thinkers is a practical guide to the implementation of the ‘St John’s curriculum’. More information |
| Personalising Learning in the Primary Classroom | This book is intended to support primary schools in their work to meet the challenging agenda of personalised and individual learning. More information |
| Planning for Performance | The theory, the practice and the resources for strategic planning. More information |
| Primary Teacher's Handbook | A fully up-dated new edition of the practical resource book for primary teachers everywhere. This handbook brims with invaluable advice and is linked to all the latest standards. More information |
| Radical Encouragement: Creating Communities For Learning | Radical Encouragement is an approach to developing dispositions, skills and strategies for better thinking and learning More information |
| Re-Imagining Educational Leadership | Drawing widely on evidence from around the world, this book provides recommendations for policy-makers and practitioners seeking a new image of the educational leader: one who secures high levels of achievement for all students in all settings. More information |
| Reaching Out to all Learners | This booklet is intended as an aide-memoire for classroom teachers on some of the basic principles of Accelerated Learning. More information |
| Reaping the Benefits | Theoretical underpinning and practical reality combined, to enable schools to evaluate staff development for its impact on:
Staff learning
Staff performance
Pupil achievement More information |
| Reflective Teaching - 3rd Edition | Reflective Teaching offers exceptional support for trainee teachers, mentors, newly qualified teachers and for those engaged in continuing professional development and performance review. More information |
| Regenerating Schools | This practical book aims to help senior leaders re-imagine and transform the partnership between their school and its community, and develop the capacity to lead that change. More information |
| Resolving Behaviour Problems in Your School | Dealing with difficult or inappropriate behaviour in schools can be a daunting task for any teacher, regardless of experience. This book provides insights into contemporary issues that inform better behaviour management in schools and practical advice on how to enhance it through policy and practice. More information |
| Rob Long's Intervention Toolbox | Rob Long’s Intervention Toolbox is written for education practitioners who support young people with problem behaviours that act as barriers to their successful engagement with school. More information |
| School Leadership - Heads on the Block? | This book examines the expectations of heads, the hours they are expected to work and the nature of everyday demands. now experience. More information |
| School Leadership Today | The complete managers support package. SLT is an authoritative and influential magazine for education management professionals. More information |
| Science at Home | The activities in this book provide an excellent opportunity to actively involve parents in children’s science homework. More information |
| Smart in the Middle Grades | The authors, experienced middle level teachers and recognized experts in gifted education, write with a flair and passion about bright middle schoolers and those with unrecognized potential. More information |
| Strategies that Work | Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding More information |
| Streamlined Staff Development Planning | The handbook tracks a six-step process for producing staff development plans. The steps are illustrated by examples which build up to show the progress of integrating school, team and individual staff development plans in one school. More information |
| Streamlined Strategic Planning | The handbook tracks a five-step process for producing a strategic plan. More information |
| Success With Inclusion | Using this book, teachers will be able to: quickly and easily identify and record their pupils’ individual learning patterns using the observation charts provided, structure a well planned inclusive environment, implement creative and thoughtful learning interventions, and create an atmosphere of flexibility and compassion. More information |
| Supply Lines | Supply Lines is written for supply teachers, or class teachers seeking fresh ideas, for when they are told, “Do what you like with them”. More information |
| Supporting the Emotional Work of School Leaders | This practical book deals with the emotional and moral dimensions of school leadership. More information |
| Teach Them How | The book and fully-interactive CD-ROM contains teaching models, units of work and proformas for assessment and reflection. More information |
| Teachers Under Pressure | This fascinating read will be of interest to anyone involved in teaching, school leadership and educational policy. More information |
| Teaching Assistant's Handbook: Primary Edition | Janet Kay’s best-selling Teaching Assistant’s Handbook has been revised and updated especially for Teaching Assistants working in the primary school. More information |
| Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom | This book is a goldmine of ways to help any student become a successful learner- without remediating, watering down content or repeating it endlessly, lowering expectations, or depriving other students of the time and attention they deserve. More information |
| Team Challenges | A brilliant collection of forty exciting, open-ended tasks that require teamwork, imagination and fast thinking. More information |
| Teambuilding Challenges | This is a collection of exciting, open-ended tasks that require teamwork, imagination and fast thinking. They can be used by teams of all kinds, and are ideal for enrichment, extension and teambuilding. More information |
| Teamwork Tools - A Revolutionary Approach for Managers and Trainers | With skyrocketing interdependence and teamwork in the workplace, managers and trainers are clamoring for effective teamwork strategies. This book offers exactly that: tools for successful teamwork. More information |
| The Art and Science of Teaching | In The Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction, author Robert J. Marzano presents a model for ensuring quality teaching that balances the necessity of research-based data with the equally vital need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual students. More information |
| The Creative Teacher | An encyclopedia of ideas to energize your curriculum. A comprehensive, practical resource packed with proven techniques and seasoned advice for time-strapped educators. More information |
| The Creative Teaching Pocketbook | Ideas for creative starters, middles and plenaries including active approaches to lessons and using technology creatively. More information |
| The Dyscalculia Toolkit | This collection of 200 teaching activities and 40 games to use with pupils who struggle with maths is based on the author’s years of experience in schools, working with dyslexic, dyspraxic and dyscalculic pupils - but all the suggested strategies are equally suitable for teaching the basics of numeracy to any pupil aged 7 to 14. More information |
| The Dyslexia-Friendly Primary School | Beginning with a look at understanding dyslexia, this bookshows you how to involve the whole school in order to achieve a dyslexia-friendly environment. More information |
| The Joys of Teaching Boys | At the core of this remarkable book are simple methods teachers can employ to set up a supportive environment, and numerous techniques they can follow to motivate boys to write and discover their voices. More information |
| The New Assertive Discipline | Complete Leaders 5 CD Training Resource Pack More information |
| The Strategic School | Strategically reorganize school resources to support instructional and performance priorities! More information |
| The Teacher's Toolkit | A book full of useful classroom strategies to make teaching and learning more lively More information |
| The Teaching Assistant's Guide to Managing Behaviour | This practical guide is essential reading for all teaching assistants. It gives useful advice on understanding your role in managing behaviour in the classroom. Each chapter contains activities and questions for you to learn from. More information |
| Thinking Skills & Eye Q | A great compendium of visual tools – tables, charts and maps - for learning More information |
| Timely Tasks for Fast Finishers | The Timely Tasks series contains hundreds of fun and fascinating activities for filling those odd moments – all tried and tested in the classroom. More information |
| Totally Positive Teaching: A Five-Stage Approach to Energizing Students and Teachers | Joseph Ciaccio shares an approach that transformed him from a burned-out veteran teacher struggling joylessly through each day to a professional who has fun with his students, guiding them to success while enjoying the teaching process. More information |
| Tweak to Transform | Tweak to Transform focuses on what headteachers and school leaders can do to manage the change process and improve the quality of teaching in a school. More information |
| We Did It Here! | Featuring empowering case studies, this book demonstrates how teachers and school leaders have looked beyond the constraints of government programmes, imposed targets and national tests, to create powerful changes in their schools. More information |
| What Makes a Good School Now? | There is universal interest in the ‘good school’. Parents want to find one, teachers seek to teach in one and children deserve to attend one. This book makes the assumption that success is possible in every school. More information |
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