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Michael Chiles and David Goodwin team up to present a comprehensive guide for all new teachers as they begin their journey, summarising a range of essential techniques. This book will be a key resource for all practitioners training to teach across subjects and phases.

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Contains one hundred ideas for assemblies in the primary school suitable for ages 5 to 11. Containing some religious and some secular assemblies, the former contain stories from many religious traditions. Each assembly carries an element of surprise, a story or a poem and an element of prayer or reflection.

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Offers primary school teachers tips and suggestions that help their pupils to develop thinking skills.

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Provides ideas on how to cope with being a supply teacher in a primary school. The first section contains advice such as how to deal with behaviour management and what resources you should bring with you to help you through the day. The remaining sections deal with a subject and include ideas such as warm up activities, lesson plans and plenaries.

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Supply teaching can be very difficult - if it's not the students that are being difficult it's the permanent members of staff. The author provides one hundred ideas on how to handle the pitfalls of being a supply teacher. It includes ideas such as warm up activities and how to carry on the topic if faced with more than one lesson with a class.

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Providing one hundred ideas on how to survive the first year of teaching, the author deals with a range of tricky issues - from coping with the long working hours and managing difficult classes to lesson planning and writing reports for the first time.

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Takes a skills-based approach, with each section suggesting general ideas to use in everyday classroom teaching, including specific examples of how these can be used with a variety of modules from primary through to secondary.

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Features lists ranging from the practical, such as preparing for an interview, organising your classroom and dealing with difficulties, to the fun, such as how the children perceive you and what not to wear.

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Features lists ranging from planning lessons and managing behaviour to continuing professional development and moving upwards and onwards.

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This field guide provides practical application of the skills presented via activities and worksheets that are provided within each chapter.

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This field guide provides practical application of the skills presented via activities and worksheets that are provided within each chapter.

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This book addresses the nature of the learner and how to plan and deliver instruction for long term learning.

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This book addresses the nature of the learner and how to plan and deliver instruction for long term learning.

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In order to create a better learning brain, students must be organized, adaptive, passionate, and secure about learning. Research and follow-up studies of these traits with theoretical knowledge, may suggest why multiple intelligence, child development theory, learning styles, and cognitive development should be included in every teacher's playbook.

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In order to create a better learning brain, students must be organized, adaptive, and passionate about learning. Research and follow-up studies of these traits with theoretical knowledge, may suggest why multiple intelligence, child development theory, learning styles, and cognitive development should be included in every teachers playbook.

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Brimming with inspiration and ideas, this book is a basic how-to guide for new primary teachers and education students. In addition, veteran teachers will find refreshing ideas to lift them out of the classroom doldrums and nourish their love of teaching.

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Teaching methods and ideas to promote service learning.

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A Meaningful Mess offers suggestions and specific tools that can be used to engage this generation of students in meaningful, relevant, and student-driven learning experienceseven if things in the classroom may get messy, both literally and figuratively.

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A Guide to Organizational Strategies for Thinking and Writing offers teachers and students ten patterns for arranging ideas that will expand their repertoire of organizational skills. Each pattern is illustrated by passages that model the strategy, and each is accompanied by an assignment that invites application and practice.

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A Teacher's Guide to Successful Classroom Management and Differentiated Instruction is a practical, straightforward conversation with teachers about two key aspects of their work. Illustrating concepts with examples from both elementary and secondary classrooms, the guide also...

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This book is a practical, straightforward conversation with teachers about two key aspects of their work. Illustrating concepts with examples from both elementary and secondary classrooms, the guide also offers strategies, checklists, and activities to help teachers improve their practice.

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This book provides busy teachers with an adaptable toolbox of strategies for challenging gifted students that they can immediately put into practice in their classroom, school, or program.

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Students learn better from teachers who are enthusiastic. Presenting a foundation for the benefits of enthusiastic teaching, this book presents descriptions of strategies that would benefit the teacher: physical and vocal animation, teacher role-playing, strategic entrances and exits, humour, props, suspense and surprise and creative use of space.