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Decisive Element: Unleashing praise and positivity in school
by Chris Henley, Mick Malton and Gary Toward
Rammed full of top tips, tools and techniques that will enable teachers to create a more positive, praise-based culture in their schools and classrooms.
The default setting in British education seems to be 'gloom'. Schools are under relentless pressure and the data-driven league table culture means that we often forget about the humans we work with. So what can teachers do to make pupils' school lives more joyous? Toward, Malton and Henley believe that the answer lies in harnessing the tools of praise and positivity so that the school setting becomes an environment in which all can thrive - from pupils to cleaners, and from head teacher to teaching assistants. Drawing on the authors' combined 100 years of experience, The Decisive Element provides powerful, research informed strategies to help teachers create a culture in which pupils become the best they can be.
Suitable for all teachers, in both primary and secondary settings, and anyone who works in education or with children.
Regular price: 39.99
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| 9781785833120 |
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Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids
Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids, Middle Years: Activities to Promote Health and Wellbeing
by Tracie Heskett
Help your middle years students learn to make healthy food choices, appreciate the importance of daily exercises and develop habits they will maintain throughout their lives. Students will learn about the health benefits of vegetables, what it means to be “gluten-free” and about serving sizes with activities such as "Vegetable Family Tree", "What Does Gluten-Free Mean?" and "What Counts as One Serving?". Activities like "Pathway to Health" and "Fitness Survey" will help students expand on their knowledge. Encourage them to journal about nutrition, fitness and health to reinforce what they have learned.
Points of Interest:
The book has been adapted to include the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education expectations for the middle years.
Five food groups are explored: fruits, vegetables, whole grains and cereals, protein and dairy.
Students learn about kilojoules, carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals, and the roles nutrients play in overall health.
Classroom-appropriate exercises are suggested.
Additional health concepts include food safety, germ prevention and dental care.
The Australian Curriculum supports a whole-child approach to education - one that ensures that each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged in their learning. This series also supports a whole-child approach to education and can be used to support such health and nutrition policies as the NSW Department of Education Nutrition in Schools Policy.
Regular price: 34.95
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| TCR4711 |
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Helping Boys Learn, Parent Edition: 6 Secrets for Your Son's
Helping Boys Learn, Parent Edition: 6 Secrets for Your Son's Success in School
Author - Edmond J Dixon
This easy-to-read and important book gives parents what they need to help their sons become successful learners at home, in school and beyond. In this book, you will discover how to use six secrets to help boys:
sit still and stay focused
avoid distractions and stay on task
complete homework without nagging
put forth their best effort in schoolwork
become passionate, successful learns in school
and much more…
When applied correctly, these six secrets help any boy to become a more motivated and higher achieving learner who is able to excel and reach his true potential at home, at school and in the community.
Based on the author’s 30+ years of experience as a teacher, principal, researcher and parent of boys, Helping Boys Learn offers parents practical solutions to many of the most pressing problems for boys in school.
Regular price: 32.95
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Lessons in Love and Understanding
Lessons in Love and Understanding :
Relationships, Sexuality and Gender in the Classroom
Jenni Gates, Scott Buckler
Sex and gender are delicate and nuanced issues for all of us and can be intimidating topics to teach. This practical, empathetic book aims to dispel some of the uncertainties that many teachers have and empower them to lead inclusive, age-appropriate lessons in primary and secondary schools.
Taking an approach that celebrates the individual identity of all learners, and underpinned by an awareness of the complexity of language around these topics, this book offers a careful evaluation of the 2020 Relationship and Sex Education policy for schools in England, and how schools can offer intelligent, socially responsible, sex education that goes beyond simply meeting statutory requirements.
216 Pages | Pbk | Published July 2020
Regular price: 64.00
Discounted member price: 60.00
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| 9781529708936 |
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Q Tasks, Second Edition
Q Tasks, Second Edition: How to Empower Students to Ask Questions and Care About the Answers
Authors - Sandi Zwaan & Carol Koechlin
Questions that students care about are crucial to successful learning. Q Tasks was instrumental in showing teachers how to empower students to develop their own questions and build their critical thinking an inquiry skills. In this new, totally revised edition, the book also addresses how teachers can use the power of technology to promote collaboration among students.
Questioning is a skill that needs to be nurtured. The flexible exercises in this practical book offer a smorgasbord of choices for teachers to use to help students formulate good question in an information-rich environment. It puts students at the centre of their own learning as they formulate questions that are meaningful to them. Q Task extensions introduce digital components that facilitate collaboration and are designed to appeal to tech-savvy students.
This remarkable book incorporates into classroom instruction those library and research skills that are essential to learning in our information age. More than one hundred tried-and-proven classroom activities in this practical book will take students beyond memorisation and rote learning.
Q Tasks offers new and experienced teachers innovative ways to help students ask real questions that focus on personal understanding and gives them ownership of their learning experience.
Edition Number: 2
Published: 30th September 2014
ISBN: 9781551383019
Number Of Pages: 160
For Ages: 9 - 17 years old
HB
Regular price: 39.00
Discounted member price: 34.00
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Teaching with Humor, Compassion, and Conviction
Teaching with Humor, Compassion, and Conviction: Helping Our Students Become Literate, Considerate, Passionate Human Beings
How can teachers make their literacy classrooms a place of
joy? Teaching with Humor, Compassion, and Conviction argues that fun, caring and passion are the key to a shame-free, healthy classroom that nurtures students in mind, body and spirit.
Teaching is serious business, but this remarkable book demonstrates that serious learning can happen in classrooms that encourage kids to learn with joy and laughter. A wealth of simple strategies and activities throughout the book help teachers build communities that promote strong literacy skills and create mindful classrooms where students are free to speak with compassion, write with conviction and read with joy.
Based on years of classroom experience, Teaching with Humor, Compassion, and Conviction focuses on the latest science and research that tells us that learning without engagement isn’t learning
offers strategies that will inspire students to value their lives as literacy learners and as human beings explores the power of humour with hands-on activities that engage students in meaningful reading, writing, listening and speaking introduces techniques for using read-alouds to build empathy, guiding students toward books they can relate to, and freeing students to develop their own stories that demonstrate compassion strive to nurture students who can express
their opinions respectfully and act on their core beliefs with their growing literacy skills.
Ideal for new and experienced teachers, this practical book shows teachers how to inspire students to do better, think better and live better.
Regular price: 29.95
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Understanding Drug Issues
Understanding Drug Issues: A Photocopiable Resource Workbook 2ed
David Emmett and Graeme Nice
This fully updated edition of a successful resource succeeds in engaging and involving young people where many other methods of drugs education – including attempts to shock, inform, or promote decision-making – have failed to make a lasting impact. This is largely because they don’t utilize young people’s own views, intelligence and insight.
The range of 30 original exercises in this resource is designed to expand and challenge participants’ understanding of the issues surrounding illegal drug use, with activities that will enable them to make active and informed personal judgements about drugs.
Understanding Drug Issues features informative and balanced material on all the key issues involved, including:
· the facts and fiction about drugs
· peer pressure
· the social consequences of drug use
· buying drugs
· the dangers involved in using
· the pros and cons of drug use
· legal implications
· the effects of drugs on health.
The activities are ideal for use in groups and feature all the latest developments surrounding the use and abuse of drugs, as well as useful contact details for those wanting further help. The material is photocopiable and designed to be used flexibly – for example as worksheets or overhead projections.
Understanding Drug Issues is an essential resource that will be valued by teachers, youth workers, probation officers, those working with offenders, and any professionals working with young people.
Regular price: 72.00
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| 9781843103509 |