 | 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning: Teaching for Success
by John Hattie & Klaus Zierer
The original Visible Learning research concluded that one of the most important influencers of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role.
In Ten Mindframes for Visible Learning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer define the ten behaviors or mindframes that teachers need to adopt in order to maximize student success.
These include:
- thinking of and evaluating your impact on students’ learning;
- the importance of assessment and feedback for teachers;
- working collaboratively and the sense of community;
- the notion that learning needs to be challenging;
- engaging in dialogue and the correct balance between talking and listening;
- conveying the success criteria to learners;
- building positive relationships.
These powerful mindframes, which should underpin every action in schools, are founded on the principle that teachers are evaluators, change agents, learning experts, and seekers of feedback who are constantly engaged with dialogue and challenge.
This practical guide, which includes questionnaires, scenarios, checklists, and exercises, will show any school exactly how to implement Hattie’s mindframes to maximise success.
Published: 15th December 2017
ISBN: 9781138635524
Number Of Pages: 180
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 | 10 Steps to Develop Great Learners
10 Steps to Develop Great Learners
Visible Learning for Parents
Author: John Hattie, Kyle Hattie
What can concerned parents and carers do to ensure their children, of all ages, develop great learning habits which will help them achieve their maximum at school and in life? This is probably one of the most important questions any parent can ask and now John Hattie, one of the most respected and renowned Education researchers in the world draws on his globally famous Visible Learning research to provide some answers.
Writing this book with his own son Kyle, himself a respected teacher, the Hatties offer a 10-step plan to nurturing curiosity and intellectual ambition and providing a home environment that encourages and values learning. These simple steps based on the strongest of research evidence and packed full of practical advice can be followed by any parent or carer to support and enhance learning and maximize the potential of their children. Areas covered include:
Communicating effectively with teachers
Being the ‘first learner’ and demonstrating openness to new ideas and thinking
Choosing the right school for your child
Promoting the ‘language of learning’
Having appropriately high expectations and understanding the power of feedback
Anyone concerned about the education and development of our children should read this book. For parents it is an essential guide that could make a vital difference to your child's life. For schools, school leaders and education authorities this is a book you should be encouraging every parent to read to support learning and maximize opportunities for all.
Available: 8th April 2022
ISBN: 9781032189291
Number Of Pages: 168
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 | 10 Things New Teachers Need to Succeed 2ed
Author: Robin Fogarty What are ten things that help new teachers get off to a good start?
How can educators excel in this complex, demanding, and ultimately rewarding profession?
These answers, along with high impact strategies, can be found in this must-have resource.
Filled with words of wisdom, practical advice, and action steps to achieve success in those critical first years, this powerful little booklet distills the teaching and consulting experience of an international author and teacher of teachers.
It includes:
- high-impact strategies for novice and veteran practitioners
- how-to for communicating with parents - techniques for planning for the unexpected
- a unique format for teacher teams to discuss one chapter a month
- action steps to achieve success in the crucial first years
This handy guide is a quick reference tool on everything from writing rubrics to communicating with parents to planning for the unexpected. Teams of new and experienced teachers can grow together by discussing and applying a chapter a month over a year.
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| 9781412938938 |
 | 100 Activities for Teaching Research Methods
100 Activities for Teaching Research Methods
Catherine Dawson
A sourcebook of exercises, games, scenarios and role plays for research methods tutors, teachers and lecturers, this practical, user-friendly guide has been developed to complement and enhance existing course materials. It is full of activities that contain clear guidance about the purpose, level and type of activity, along with a range of discussion notes that signpost key issues and research insights. Important terms, related activities and further reading suggestions are included for each activity.
The book contains 100 ready-to-use activities that provide a complete and valuable resource for educators, all of which are also available to be downloaded online.
Innovative and engaging classroom practice is encouraged in seven areas:
• finding and using sources of information
• planning a research project
• conducting research
• using and analyzing data
• disseminating results
• acting ethically
• developing deeper research skills
Every university with a Social Science department has to deliver research methods in some capacity, but there is no need for us all to sit in our institutional silos and reinvent the wheel. Dawson provides a huge and varied list of pre-designed activities for methods teachers to draw upon covering the whole research process and an eclectic range of methodological approaches. The activities are pedagogically engaging, comprehensively resourced and provide us with an opportunity to rethink how social science research methods can be taught in a more interactive and engaging way.
384 Pages | Pbk
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 | 15 Minute STEM
15-Minute STEM: Quick, creative Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics activities for 5–11 year-olds
Emily Hunt
Emily Hunt’s 15-Minute STEM: Quick, creative science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities for 5–11-year-olds offers an exciting collection of 40 tried-and-tested, easy-to-resource STEM activities designed to engage and inspire young learners.
From caring for our environment to the digital revolution, the demand for STEM skills is huge and is only set to grow. STEM is therefore an important priority area in modern education, leaving many teachers and parents asking questions such as ‘How do I fit STEM education into my day?’ and ‘What kind of activities should I be exploring?’
Enter 15-Minute STEM with the answers …
This innovative resource has been designed to reassure teachers and parents that they don’t need to be experts to deliver high-quality STEM education. Each of the 40 activities includes step-by-step instructions, takes just 15 minutes to complete and can be resourced from everyday materials found in the classroom or at home. This means that, with minimal preparation, teachers can slot these cross-curricular activities into an otherwise busy day, broadening their pupils’ learning at no cost to their focus on core curriculum areas.
The activities make connections to real-world scenarios, helping children to understand how their learning is relevant to their future, and have been linked to conceptually similar STEM-related careers – all of which are individually profiled in a glossary at the back of the book. The practical, problem-solving element of each activity offers a great way for children to develop important soft skills such as creativity, critical thinking and spatial awareness.
Accompanying instructions are framed and phrased in a way that encourages the children to lead the learning and exploration – allowing the supervising adult to take a more hands-off, facilitative approach – and opportunities for further investigation are provided in order to broaden the learning focus and extend the tasks beyond 15 minutes. Hand-drawn illustrations and full colour photographs are also included alongside each activity to give an idea of what the end results might look like.
Suitable for both teachers and parents.
Activities include:
• Arctic Engineering: Why are igloos built in a dome shape?
• Fireworks in a Jar: What happens when we mix fluids of different densities?
• Marble Run Mayhem: What happens to a marble as it moves through a marble run?
• Rainbow Walking Water: How does water get from the roots of plants to the leaves?
• Spoon Sound Waves: How can we change the pitch of sound?
Published: 30th November 2018
ISBN: 9781785833359
Number Of Pages: 64
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 | 17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong
17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong: Strategies That Engage Students, Promote Active Learning, and Boost Achievement
Authors - Jim Garver & John Antonetti
Most educators are skilled at planning instruction and determining what they will do during the course of a lesson. However, to truly engage students in worthwhile, rigorous cognition, a profound shift is necessary: a shift in emphasis from teaching to learning. Put another way, we know that whoever is doing the work is also doing the learning – and in most classrooms, teachers are working much too hard.
Authors John V. Antonetti and James R. Garver are the designers of the Look 2 Learning model of classroom walkthroughs. They’ve visited more than 17,000 classrooms – examining a variety of teaching and learning conditions, talking to students, examining their work and determining their levels of thinking and engagement. From this vast set of data, they’ve drawn salient lessons that provide valuable insight into how to smooth the transition from simply planning instruction to designing high-quality student work.
The lessons John and James have learned from their 17,000 (and counting) classroom visits – and which they share in this book – can’t be wrong. Features of the book include stories of successful practice and practical tools ready for immediate classroom application. The authors also provide opportunities for reflection and closure designed to help you consider (or reconsider) your current beliefs and practices. Throughout, you will hear the voices of John and James – and the thousands of students they met – as they provide a map for shifting the dynamic from teaching to learning.
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 | 30 Big-Idea Lessons for Small Groups
30 Big-Idea Lessons for Small Groups: The Teaching Framework for ANY Text and EVERY Reader
Authors - Michael Rafferty, Colleen morello and Paraskevi Rountos
In 30 Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups, educators Rafferty, Morello, and Rountos provide an amazing framework that gets students interacting with texts. You prompt and guide, but they think! Big-Idea groups are the piece that’s been missing from small group instruction: engagement from the get-go.
Follow this unique 4-part process to develop students’literal, inferential, evaluative, and analytical skills:
1. Engage: Before Reading Using a tactile tool like a topic card or a pyramid, readers literally move ideas around on their small group table as they debate a question related to the text and to big ideas about courage, persistence, love, and honesty, and more.
2. Discuss: During Reading Students read and mark up a short text, exploring questions that get at the author’s take on the big idea, noticing key vocabulary, text structure, moments of inference, and more.
3. Deep-See Think: After Reading Students re-read, synthesize, and revise their interpretations together and tweak the tactile tool, based on questions that probe the big idea in new and deeper ways.
4. Connect: After Reading Students summarize, and begin to transfer their understandings to other texts in independent reading and the world beyond, primed for this all-important transfer because they’ve been engaged in topics that clearly relate to their lives.
Tap into 30 lessons organized by text complexity, reproducible forms, assessments, and a bank of engagement tools so you can switch it up. Use these lessons across the year as a warm up to a whole-class novel, to augment your core reading program, to challenge your capable readers and bring your striving readers in to rich yet accessible reading experiences.
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 | 365 Things To Make You Go Hmmm: A Year's Worth of Class Thin
365 Things To Make You Go Hmmm… A year's worth of class thinking
Author: Sparky Teaching Good teachers know that in order to have children learning, first of all you need to have children thinking. And the better that thinking, the better the learning. This engaging, entertaining and visually striking book is full of simple, practical and proven ideas, tasks, tools and strategies do just that – make children of all abilities to stop, think, reflect, ponder and wonder. Drawing on the success of the author’s popular website, this book will start the cognitive ball rolling across a whole range of disciplines including numeracy, literacy, problem solving, decision-making, interpersonal skills and critical thinking. So, before you get to that all-important ‘a-ha’ moment, let this book help you with those overlooked, but equally important, moments where you all just go ‘hmmm …’
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| 9781781351154 |
 | 50 Teaching and Learning Approaches
50 Teaching and Learning Approaches: Simple, easy and effective ways to engage learners and measure their progress
Sharron Mansell, Ann Gravells and Andrew Hampel
This reader-friendly and accessible text introduces 50 learning and teaching approaches and explores how they work in practice by taking an honest look at the advantages and disadvantages of each one. For each approach, the authors include in-practice examples taken from a range of teaching contexts. The text also offers clear support for teachers on how they can assess learners' progress when using each approach. This focus on the need to see and measure the learning that is taking place supports the reader to concentrate on the learning and not be distracted with the newness of different approaches.
Published: 4th October 2019
ISBN: 9781526488756
Number Of Pages: 160
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 | 59 Reasons to Write: Mini-Lessons, Prompts, and Inspiration
59 Reasons to Write: Mini-Lessons, Prompts, and Inspiration for Teachers
Author - Kate Messner
In order to teach writing effectively, teacher must be writers themselves. They must experience the same uncertainty of starting a new draft and then struggling to revise. As they learn to move past the fear of failure, they discover the nervous rush and exhilaration of sharing work with an audience, just as their students do. Only by engaging in the real work of writing can teachers become part of the writing community they dream of creating for their students.
Kate Messner’s new book, 59 Reasons to Write, shows teachers and librarians who teach writing how to be stronger role models for their students.
“Writing for my students provided me with appropriate mentor texts to share,” she writes. “Writing with my students made me a mentor and a far better teacher.”
59 Reasons to Write grew out of Messner’s popular online summer writing camp, Teachers Write. Throughout the book she offers mini-lessons, writing prompts and bursts of inspiration designed to get you writing every day, whether on your own or as part of a group. Dozens of guest authors also share their writing processes and secrets, from brainstorming ideas and organising research to developing characters and getting unstuck from writer’s block.
59 Reasons to Write if for anyone who always wanted to write but never managed to get into the habit. Daily warm-ups will help you flex your writing muscles and energise your teaching. As Messner shares, “One of the greatest gifts of writing is the way it nudges us to look more closely not only as the world but also at ourselves."
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