Being a "good teacher" is a difficult goal to achieve, being largely dependent on a huge variety of skills outside of the main curriculum. Teaching Skills For Dummies focuses on these 'soft' skills of teaching, from maintaining discipline to creating engaging lesson plans and monitoring performance. This essential guide promises to help teachers gain the respect of their pupils, manage potential confrontations and ultimately get the best out of both their careers and their students.
Teaching Skills For Dummies includes information on:
Developing Your Teaching...
Being a "good teacher" is a difficult goal to achieve, being largely dependent on a huge variety of skills outside of the main curriculum. Teaching...
A fully up-dated second edition of Sue Cowley's wonderfully accessible guide to helping teachers develop writing strategies for children in the classroom. The new edition contains three new chapters: two on writing in elementary and high schools and a third on developing writing strategies in different subjects. With the practicality, humour and optimism that characterize all her teaching and writing, Sue Cowley guides colleagues through all the stages of teaching writing-from motivating students to want to write through helping them shape, structure and correct their work.
A fully up-dated second edition of Sue Cowley's wonderfully accessible guide to helping teachers develop writing strategies for children in the classr...
"This is above all a down-to-earth, pragmatic guide that will leave parents feeling positive and empowered." --Parents Online
"An enormous amount of information, ideas and tips." --Families Online
"In this book I offer practical and realistic advice for parents about how to manage their children's behavior. I give tips and strategies that will help you deal with all the behavior issues that you face, from getting the basics right, through to dealing with more serious problems. The strategies that I outline in this book are simple to understand and put into practice, but will make...
"This is above all a down-to-earth, pragmatic guide that will leave parents feeling positive and empowered." --Parents Online
Contains information, ideas and approaches to help you develop your students' thinking skills. This book also covers the organizational aspects of teaching thinking in a classroom setting.
Contains information, ideas and approaches to help you develop your students' thinking skills. This book also covers the organizational aspects of tea...
""There should be a copy in every staffroom... In short it's invaluable: keep it under lock or key, or your colleagues will pinch it." TES"
""This book will help you negotiate the minefield that is the teaching profession. It's realistic, practical and stuffed with valuable information." Sue Cowley"
This is "the" definitive teaching resource for trainees everywhere. Drawing on the advice of professionals from every sphere of education, teaching guru, Sue Cowley, presents a vivid insider's guide to surviving in teaching - from preparing for teaching practice and finding a job, to...
""There should be a copy in every staffroom... In short it's invaluable: keep it under lock or key, or your colleagues will pinch it." TES"
Getting the Buggers into Drama featured in Junior Education Plus' 2009 '10 of the best drama resources'
This wonderfully accessible and practical guide provides a range of effective strategies for teaching drama. Written with her usual practicality, humour and optimism, Sue Cowley demonstrates how drama can make lessons across the curriculum more interesting and engaging. This fascinating guide is aimed both at the specialist drama teacher and at those who are interested in using drama to help them deliver other areas of the curriculum. It will also be particularly helpful...
Getting the Buggers into Drama featured in Junior Education Plus' 2009 '10 of the best drama resources'
In this third edition, bestselling author Sue Cowley offers advice on improving skills and confidence, and getting students excited about writing - not just in literacy or English, but across the curriculum. This book is full of engaging and creative approaches for writers at all stages of confidence and competence: from children just starting to write, to experienced learners looking to perfect their own style. This edition includes new material on:
- writing in the Digital Age - creative ideas for getting boys to write - cross-curricular writing projects
On the...
In this third edition, bestselling author Sue Cowley offers advice on improving skills and confidence, and getting students excited about writing -...
This book is the ultimate guide to differentiation and adaptive teaching in early years, schools and further education settings by Sue Cowley, bestselling author of Getting the Buggers to Behave. It offers over 90 practical and time-saving strategies in every classroom. The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation demonstrates how teachers already differentiate and adapt their teaching much of the time, in subtle and creative ways. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use, as well as helping them to develop additional...
This book is the ultimate guide to differentiation and adaptive teaching in early years, schools and further education settings by Sue Cowley, bestsel...
In The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years, internationally renowned teacher trainer Sue Cowley takes practitioners on a journey: the journey young children embark upon when they learn their first words and make their first marks. Filled with practical activities and honest advice, this must-have guide presents a wide range of creative approaches to developing mark making and building language skills in the Early Years. With ideas to build finger strength and eye-to-hand coordination, activities for understanding the concept of symbols and signs and strategies for building...
In The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years, internationally renowned teacher trainer Sue Cowley takes practitioners on a journey: the jou...
