The Teacher's Toolkit: Raise Classroom Achievement with Activities for Every Learner
Paul Ginnis

$29.95
ISBN:1899836764

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The Teacher’s Toolkit is designed to raise achievement in the classroom. Based on current research and thoroughly tested in a variety of secondary schools, it presents motivating physical and mental activities, and innovating approaches to group work, research, peer teaching and discussion. Designed as a teacher’s resource, The Teacher’s Toolkit is packed with practical classroom strategies and enjoyable learning exercises that will enable you to:

  • meet the needs of different learning styles

  • add a bit of spice to your teaching

  • stimulate your own creative thinking 

  • challenge the most gifted.

Whatever your subject, it will give you workable ways of:

  • developing thinking skills;                                                     

  • delivering the attitudes of citizenship;

  • embedding study skills;                                                          

  • creating true independence.

… all in an inclusive classroom. The Teacher’s Toolkit also provides:

  • an overview of recent thinking about learning;

  • 50 varied learning techniques for various subjects and ages;

  • practical ideas for managing group work, tackling behavior and promoting personal responsibility;

  • six essential ways of operating in the classroom;

  • tools for checking that your practice is in line with the best thinking, from lesson planning to performance management.

A book that you will turn to again and again for ideas, The Teacher’s Toolkit will broaden the range of your teaching practice and equip you with essential new classroom strategies. Providing the tools you need to create an effective learning environment, The Teacher’s Toolkit is an invaluable sourcebook, guaranteed to contain that lesson-solution.

The Author
Paul Ginnis lectures all over the world on strategies to improve teaching and learning, but he is first and foremost a classroom practitioner. Previously a teacher, head of department, advisory teacher and staff development tutor, Paul has spent the last 17 years working in over 400 schools in the UK, helping teachers to translate modern thinking about learning into classroom technique. Paul’s previous books include A Guide to Student-Centred Learning and The Student-Centred School, both written with Dr. Donna Brandes.