The 1991 paper 'Cognitive Apprenticeship: Making Thinking Visible' greatly influenced the teaching of John Tomsett, headteacher at Huntington School in York. In this book, a number of teachers at Huntington School discuss what they consider to be the expert thought processes specific to their individual subject domains.
The Collective Power of Relationships, Memory and Mindset
We are spoiled for choice. Educational research and countless teaching tips and trends are available at our fingertips. Where do you start? Connect the Dots brilliantly dissects three of the most important areas of teaching and learning, laying out the research worth knowing and applying to ready-to-use teaching tools for real classrooms.
We are all at our most effective when we can be ourselves at work, but more than half of LGBT teachers hide their sexual identity within their school workplace. For LGBT teachers, vigilance, concealment and assimilation, take a great deal of energy, on top of what is already a very demanding job. This book is essential reading for any LGBT teacher ......
Creating Positive Classrooms is the definitive guide for classroom teachers in all matters behaviour, culture and ethos. This book explains how to craft the social norm in your classroom with 50 approaches to creating a positive classroom environment.
Critical pedagogy is a transformative approach to education, moving beyond a simple transmission model of teaching where the teacher imparts predetermined knowledge to students. This participatory and empowering pedagogy can ensure classrooms become places of opportunity. Students are encouraged to critique their world and develop the essential ......
Everything you will ever need to create an innovative, supportive MYP Mathematics Curriculum. Rita Bateson is the former Senior Curriculum and Assessment Manager for the IB and oversaw the last curriculum review. In this book you will find a one-stop shop for everything Middle Years Programme, from planning through delivery and assessment.
Curriculum Exposed is a pacy, punchy and forthright critique of how to drive the curriculum within a school and how the curriculum should be used as a vehicle for change and social justice.
Curriculum Revolutions is a tool to assist schools in creating, building and maintaining a joined-up curriculum that is cohesive and coherent. Martin Robinsons unique curriculum wheel leads you through a continuous cycle of planning, designing, delivering, reflecting upon and reviewing your curriculum.
Curriculum to Classroom is the ideal book for senior leaders and curriculum leads who are in the process of establishing, refining and reviewing their school curriculum.