The Teacher's Toolkit: Raise Classroom Achievement with Strategies for Every Learner

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Review ------ ..has excellent references to basic teaching methods and strategies. -- Edward Thompson CAE MIMI

I will be recommending this book to my students as essential reading. -- Geraldine McCusker, Stockport College

This book, with its easy-to-use format and plethora of great ideas will inspire anew and bring back that long lost sense of greater purpose. A real tonic! --Terry Hart, Director Bookworms of Reigate and former FE Lecturer This is a resource that every teacher would find practical, useful and user friendly. --The Basic Skills Agency Magazine Summer 2003 Well written and worth having as a reference book on one's shelf. --Kathleen Ginn, Trainer in Rapid Sensory Learning Synopsis -------- Packed with practical classroom strategies this teacher's resource will enable you to: - meet the needs of different learning styles - stimulate your own creativity - add spice to your teaching - challenge the gifted - and the disruptive! Whatever subject you teach, this comprehensive volume will help you to develop thinking skills in your students; promote citizenship and an understanding of democracy; fine-tune study skills and help students acquire the attitude and skills for true independence. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology and sociology "The Teacher's Toolkit" provides an overview of recent thinking innovations in teaching and presents over fifty learning techniques for all subjects and age groups, with dozens of practical ideas for managing group work, tackling behavioural issues and promoting personal responsibility. It also presents tools for checking your teaching skills - from lesson planning to performance management. "This is one of those rare and precious books which has that uncanny knack of revealing explicitly to you things about teaching which you knew instinctively all along but had never thought about so clearly." - Professor Tim Brighouse, Chief Education Officer, Birmingham Education Authority. "Paul Ginnis has constructed a toolkit for teachers which is the finished article. Well informed, well researched and well written, this is a book which every teacher in the land should get their hands on." - Alistair Smith, author and leading educational trainer.