With nearly 100 classroom activities or games', this extremely practical book is packed full of inspiration to encourage learning through the fun of creativity, with particular emphasis on creative thinking, talking and writing. The book also provides ways for teachers wishing to develop whole-class skills, such as observation, decision-making, emotions and confidence."
With nearly 100 classroom activities or games', this extremely practical book is packed full of inspiration to encourage learning through the f...
Developing children's writing abilities boosts their confidence, creates enjoyment and relevance in the task and cultivates a range of decision-making and problem-solving skills that can then be applied across the curriculum. The Countdown series provides all the support you need in helping children to improve their prose, poetry and non-fiction writing.
This guide provides all the support you need in helping pupils to improve their poetry writing. Countdown to Poetry Writing is a comprehensive and flexible resource that you can use in different ways, including:
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Developing children's writing abilities boosts their confidence, creates enjoyment and relevance in the task and cultivates a range of decision-mak...
'Coaching emotional intelligence in the classroom' is a practical resource to help Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers fully explore and understand the range of 'emotional intelligences' they may experience in the classroom.
'Coaching emotional intelligence in the classroom' is a practical resource to help Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers fully explore and understand t...
Thinking skills are the cornerstones of effective learning. When children are familiar with their 'thinking toolkit' they will engage more actively and confidently with the knowledge and information you teach them. In this brand new edition, author and education consultant Steve Bowkett offers 100 tried and tested activities and techniques to help children become more creative, analytical and flexible in their thinking.
Whether you are an experienced teacher or you are just starting your teaching career, there are strategies in this book that you can apply across a wide age and...
Thinking skills are the cornerstones of effective learning. When children are familiar with their 'thinking toolkit' they will engage more actively...
This practical guide saves valuable planning time and gives you all the flexibility you need in helping pupils to prepare for, understand, and write non-fiction.
This practical guide saves valuable planning time and gives you all the flexibility you need in helping pupils to prepare for, understand, and write n...
Coaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom is a practical resource to help Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers explore and understand a range of concepts, principles and techniques gathered under the term emotional intelligence, and the way that this powerfully influences pupils behaviour and learning in the classroom. Creative activities are suggested throughout, leading towards a more explicit focus on coaching methods to help pupils become independent, creative and effective learners able to set goals, generate ideas, solve problems and arrive at reasoned decisions.
This book...
Coaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom is a practical resource to help Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers explore and understand a rang...
Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing uses children's interest in pictures, comics and graphic novels as a way of developing their creative writing abilities, reading skills and oracy.
Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing uses children's interest in pictures, comics and graphic novels as a way of developing their ...
This innovative book is the first to provide a fun, interactive way to learn about architecture. Filled with an array of beautiful and elegant drawings, it poses all manner of architectural challenges for the user: from designing your own skyscraper, to drawing an island house or creating a Constructivist monument, plus many others more. Aimed at anyone who loves drawing buildings, it encourages the user to imagine their own creative solutions by sketching, drawing and painting in the pages of the book. In so doing, they will learn about a whole range of significant architectural issues,...
This innovative book is the first to provide a fun, interactive way to learn about architecture. Filled with an array of beautiful and elegant drawing...
Steve Bowkett, Tim Harding, Trisha Lee, Roy Leighton
Young people are entering a world that requires more than straight 'A's (if it ever did) and yearns for the well rounded, multiply intelligent, creative and mature individual that can manage change and complexity without getting upset, petulant and stomping off in a huff. The focus in this informative, entertaining and ultimately practical book is very straight forward: to provide parents with practical skills, based on solid research, to assist their children to become, not only life long learners, but live a long and happy learned life.
Young people are entering a world that requires more than straight 'A's (if it ever did) and yearns for the well rounded, multiply intelligent, creati...
How many times as a teacher have you heard the cry 'But I don't know what to write'? This all too familiar fear of the blank page can be overcome by using the wealth of practical suggestions for helping children to feel more confident as they strive to master the complex combination of skills that make up the craft of writing. Steve Bowkett, an experienced author and writer, suggests a two-pronged attack: giving children a toolkit of techniques for generating and organising ideas of their own, coupled with methods for perceiving themselves as writers - all designed to boost self-esteem and...
How many times as a teacher have you heard the cry 'But I don't know what to write'? This all too familiar fear of the blank page can be overcome by u...
