Reading is an essential life skill; it can raise intelligence and develop confidence in learning. Susan Elkin's handy, introductory guide outlines teaching concepts and practical strategies to encourage reading both in and out of the classroom. Topics covered include:

- Creative suggestions to encourage reading in all age groups

- Ideas to support reading for pleasure as well as for information gathering

- Making the most of schemes offering incentives for children to read

- This is essential reading for all teachers.

NLP is very effective in enabling young people to overcome fears, anxieties and limitations, which, in turn, helps them to achieve more in school, learn more effectively and, in life in general, become more fulfilled and wholesome individualsThis highly practical book provides strategies for teachers to use in the classroom to improve their own NLP skills as well as those of their students. Topics include: * Understanding that we only see what we believe is possible * Realising that we create our own experience * Using embedded commands to aid homework

Ensuring that children leave school emotionally literate is becoming of increasing concern in the UK, with the introduction of initiatives in both primary and secondary education. This highly practical text provides teachers with strategies and engaging classroom activities which will help teachers to develop their pupils emotional literacy.

For a young person to have a successful career at school and become a lifelong learner it is essential that they develop the skills to learn effectively. This timely book looks at ways in which teachers can identify and deal with barriers to learning and suggests strategies which motivate young people to develop an interest in their own learning.

Gibt einen theoretischen Überblick darüber, was eine alternative Bewertung ist. Eine breite Palette von alternativen Beurteilungsaufgaben, -techniken und -aktivitäten, die im Unterricht eingesetzt werden können, sowie Bewertungsaktivitäten, die den Lehrkräften dabei helfen sollen, nicht mehr nur bis zum Test zu unterrichten.

Ideas in Action: Activities for Developing Learning Strategies gibt Lehrkräften geeignete Instrumente und Strategien für den erfolgreichen Sprachunterricht an die Hand.

Activities for Developing Learning Strategies:

• erklärt die Theorie und die Bedeutung der Entwicklung expliziter Lernstrategien und ihre Rolle für den Lernprozess und die Motivation der Lernenden
• bietet Mikrostrategien an, die den Lehrkräften helfen, Lernstrategien in ihre Planung und Durchführung zu integrieren
• bietet praktische Werkzeuge und über 30...