The Teacher’s Toolkit

Description

Designed as a teacher’s resource, The Teacher’s Toolkit is packed with practical classroom strategies that will enable you to:

1. Meet the needs of different learning styles
2. Add spice to your teaching
3. Stimulate your own creativity
4. Challenge the gifted –– and the disruptive.
5. Develop thinking skills
6. Deliver citizenship
7. Embed study skills
8. Create true independence.
9. Drawing on insights from neuroscience, psychology and sociology The Teacher’s Toolkit provides:
10. An overview of recent thinking about learning
11. Fifty varied learning techniques for all sorts of subjects and situations
12. Practical ideas for managing group work, tackling behavior and promoting personal responsibility
13. Six essential ways of operating in the classroom
14. Tools for checking your practice –– from lesson planning to performance management.

Author Description

Although Paul Ginnis lectures all over the world on strategies to improve teaching and learning, 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 18 years working in over 450 schools in the UK and abroad, helping teachers to translate modern thinking about learning into effective classroom practice. Paul’s previous books include A Guide to Student-Centered Learning and The Student-Centered School, both with Dr. Donna Brandes.