In this 'at a glance' guide, Sue Cowley introduces teachers to the key principles of Positive Behaviour Management - her 'Seven C's'. This book offers practical and realistic strategies that you can use to improve behaviour in your classroom and your school - immediately. Whatever age group you teach, her ideas will help and inspire you. Sue Cowley is renowned among both new and experienced teachers for the honest and helpful nature of her advice. Here she condenses all her expertise and experience into a mini guide that is quick to read and indispensable to own. Whether you're brand new to...

In this short guide, Sue Cowley offers practical advice for improving differentiation in the classroom. She explains a variety of techniques and strategies that teachers can use straight away, to help all their students learn more effectively. In this short book Sue offers advice on using targets and timing, tips on creating groups for differentiated learning, thoughts on developing higher order thinking for all your students, and much much more. This 'at a glance' guide will help you gain a fresh insight into a complex topic. You will learn how to differentiate more effectively, without...

In this brand new 'at a glance' guide, best-selling education author Sue Cowley introduces you to the key principles of brilliant voice usage in the classroom. In this book she deals with a diverse range of voice-related topics: how to adapt and develop your tone of voice, how to find the right pitch for the right purpose, how pronunciation works and why it matters so much, how to project your voice in different teaching spaces, how to pace your speaking for maximum impact, and much, much more. In this concise guide to the subject, Sue also explains how your voice works, and how you can...

In this book, Sue Cowley offers teachers a practical and easy to read guide to the subject of group work. She explains a variety of strategies that teachers can use immediately in their classrooms, to help all their students work more effectively in groups. Sue offers advice on using group work for the right reasons and on helping students take on different roles within groups. She examines the rights and responsibilities required for great group work, offers routines and structures for helping group work run smoothly, and shows you how to give your students the richest possible learning...

In this short book, Sue Cowley gathers together a huge variety of techniques that will all boost reading for pleasure in your school or setting. She explains a range of approaches that teachers and practitioners can use with their children, to help them become highly motivated readers. Sue examines the best ways to support emerging readers and to build reading expertise. She gives ideas for engaging students with different kinds of texts, and for creating an environment that will inspire a love of reading. Sue also examines ways to harness the power of emotions and experiences to get all of...

In this concise guide, Sue Cowley shares a wealth of tips on writing for a living. She gives practical advice on finding the motivation to write and on creating a daily writing routine. She explains how to prepare a book proposal that will win you a book contract, and looks at how to go about self-publishing your work. Sue offers great advice on effective methods for writing, editing and preparing a book for publication, based on her fifteen years as a published author. She shows you how to find different income streams for your writing and how to manage the financial aspects of being a...

In this concise guide, Sue Cowley shares a wealth of strategies for helping your students become better writers. She gives practical advice on building the skills, techniques and attitudes needed to be a successful writer. She examines ways to give young writers a sense of purpose, and an authentic audience. She looks at the importance of structures in building confidence for young writers. She examines how you can help your students develop a unique writing style, and looks at the best ways to assess their writing. She also offers a range of ideas for stimulating and inspiring your students,...

In this concise guide, Sue Cowley shares a wealth of strategies for creating a great early years setting. Whether you work in a nursery, a preschool, a nursery or reception class, or as a childminder, this book will help you improve and develop your practice. In this book Sue gives practical advice about clarifying a vision for your setting, and communicating it to others. She explores ways to give a voice to children, staff and parents. She examines the critical importance of speaking and listening in early learning and development, and gives advice on great verbal and non-verbal...

his book is a rallying cry for an artful attitude to the process of education it shows how teachers can move their teaching past a standardised, scientific approach and into the realms of an art form. Sue Cowley demonstrates how teachers can behave like artists, sculptors, actors, dancers, musicians, playwrights, poets, designers and directors, whatever subject they happen to be teaching. In this book you will learn how to be more creative, experimental, playful and imaginative in the methods you use to manage your classroom, and in the myriad ways that you help your students to learn. The...