<p>An exciting mixed product of print and downloadalbe resources, this book presents over 200 tips, tools and practical strategies for more effective teaching and learning that can be used in your classroom tomorrow. The emphasis is on exciting, inclusive learning experiences which genuinely engage learners and raise motivation. The book is a follow up to the ground-breaking Creative Teaching and Learning Toolkit which sets out the key principles of effective teaching and learning. Using their pioneering Creative Teaching Framework as a scaffold for the book, award-winning authors Brin Best and Will Thomas guide you through strategies that deal with each component of effective teaching. As well as dealing comprehensively with actual teaching techniques you can use, the authors also tackle the key areas of vision, climate and reflection, showing you how a range of practical approaches can also benefit your learners. A special section deals with things you can do on a personal and professional level to improve your teaching skills too. All the strategies included in the book are highly practical and represent tried and tested approaches from successful classrooms. Each is presented concisely, showing how you can embed the learning activities into your day to day lessons. Special emphasis is placed on creative ways of producing successful learning outcomes for students of all abilities. This resource book presents a rich compendium of teaching and learning strategies that can be used by teachers of all subjects. It will help you to become more creative in your teaching and for learners to be more creative in their approaches. It will widen your repertoire of teaching approaches, to the benefit of all your learners. Whether you are a teacher early in your career looking to gain new skills, or an experienced practitioner wishing to expand your toolkit and freshen up your teaching, then the Creative Teaching and Learning</p>

The Creative Teaching & Learning Resource Book (Creativity for Learning)

Business & Money

Thomas, Will

Best, Brin.

Education & Reference

Continuum

Looking for time-saving, creative, ready-to-use activities to kick-start and round-off your lessons? Look no further!Starters and plenaries are now an essential part of all lessons and this highly practical book provides busy geography teachers with a wealth of stimulating activities to use in the classroom. The starters will help ensure the first ten minutes of any secondary geography lesson are motivating, energising and engaging for pupils, and the plenaries will help them to reflect on and embed their learning as the lesson draws to a close.Rich pupil stimuli, step-by-step instructions. teacher's tips and extension exercises will help you to create outstanding learning opportunities across diverse areas of the geography curriculum, including both the human and physical domains.The book is accompanied by additional online resources giving you everything you need to plan and deliver high quality starters and plenaries in geography. It is an essential addition to every geography teacher's toolkit.

Secondary Starters and Plenaries: Geography: Ready-to-use activities for teaching geography (Classroom Starters and Plenaries)

Padget, Steve

Travel

Bloomsbury Education

Containing everything a new or improving geography teacher could wish to know, this book provides step-by-step guidance on creating outstanding learning opportunities that prepare students for life, as well as for success in their examinations. Award-winning author and former head of geography Brin Best brings a wealth of experience and a unique blend of rigour and practicality to the subject, presenting fresh, exciting and creative ideas on how to get the most from your geography lessons. The book contains advice on everything from planning schemes of work and lessons, making the most of opportunities for learning outside the classroom and available ICT to cross-curricular links, thinking skills and examples of best practice. With reflective questions and activities, scores of lesson stimuli and a host of useful links, this book is an essential addition to every geography teacher's toolkit.

The Geography Teacher's Handbook (Continuum Education Handbooks, 6)

Binoculars and People

Biosphere

Learning to Learn Toolkit

Optimus Education

Research carried out by the government indicates that schools in England and Wales are currently raising over GBP1 billion a year from 'external sources'.  However, many schools still fail to access additional funding either because they do not recognise the significance of fundraising or they don't have the structure in place to do it successfully.  Cost Effective Fundraising for Schools explains what your school needs to do in order to make the most of the many funding opportunities on offer, giving you a clear, step-by-step guide to effective fundraising on a tight budget. It shows you how you can unlock the vast funds available from charitable trusts, the national lottery, businesses and other organisations as well as offering practical tips that take you through the bid writing process, with inspiring case studies of how other schools have done it. This practical guide will empower you to get your share of funds by showing you how to: Implement a strategic approach to cost-effective fundraising following a robust six step strategy  Position fundraising as a key part of school improvement and embed it in your school improvement plans  Ensure your funding bids are successful by taking you through the bid writing process, with extracts from real successful applications  Motivate your team with inspiring case studies of schools who have accessed funds for projects that have transformed the education opportunities for their pupils  Invest only the financial and human resources you have available and still be successful even in challenging circumstances  Manage funded projects effectively so that they generate their intended outcomes and make it possible for you to secure continued funding  Work smartly and cost-effectively in order to maximise your fundraising efforts with lists of practical measures you need to take and a simple action planning matrix  Generate income from letting your school, as well as a network of local friends and supporters  Run successful and cost effective events and generate imaginative new ideas for fundraising

Cost Effective Fundraising for Schools

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