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Growth Mindset Lessons
Practising teacher and mindset expert Katherine Muncaster has combined with best-selling author Shirley Clarke to produce this 'must-have' handbook for anyone looking to embed a growth mindset culture across their primary school. With practical strategies, lesson plans and extensive examples and realia in full colour, this comprehensive resource takes the concept of growth mindset and turns it into a powerful reality. · A comprehensive and practical scheme of work which will develop a powerful learning culture throughout your school · A tangible way to put growth mindset into action which has been developed, tested and trialled by Katherine Muncaster · Co-authored by leading professional development expert Shirley Clarke · Supported by easy-to-access classroom video clips that provide demonstrations of the impact of this approach in lessons.
Mental Toughness
Help children to develop strong resilience, positive self-esteem and confidence with a whole-school approach, including an evidence-based theoretical framework for practical activities, and guidance on how to measure the impact of interventions over time. Includes: · An overview of the mental toughness model: providing a strong theoretical underpinning for the practical activities. · Guidance on using psychometrics with young people: showing how questionnaires can be used to design an intervention and measure impact. · Practical classroom activities for Reception to Year 6, organised into teaching sessions. · Accompanying downloadable and editable slides to help teach each session, and an example video lesson for each year group.
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Understanding and Reducing Anxiety in the Primary School
Everyone working in education, and beyond, is fully aware of the current mental health crisis for pupils. Understanding and Reducing Anxiety in the Primary School combines the expert knowledge of a specialist in formative assessment, a child and adolescent psychotherapist and an outstanding headteacher to address how we may tackle this issue and improve the wellbeing of children in our schools. Formative assessment, one of the key techniques explored within this book, has explicit links with reducing anxiety: raising children’s belief in their ability to achieve and giving them clear frameworks of learning intentions and success criteria as well as in-the-moment feedback so that they are r...
Thinking Classrooms: Metacognition Lessons for Primary Schools
Teaching children metacognitive skills (an understanding of how they learn) can help raise attainment by an average of seven months according to research carried out by the Education Endowment Fund. Rising Stars' Thinking Classrooms handbook offers engaging lesson plans and activities to introduce and teach metacognition throughout a primary school, from Reception through KS1 and KS2. With Rising Stars' Thinking Classrooms you can encourage transferrable learning skills such as planning and checking, boost children's independence, resilience and approach to learning, and develop teacher confidence with embedded CPD. This comprehensive handbook also includes a clear introduction to metacognition and its benefits, pupil self-evaluation at the end of each activity, downloadable worksheets and templates, original and fun assembly ideas and fun assembly ideas and accompanying videos.
The Life of a Children's Troubadour
In this revealing and engaging autobiography, popular children's troubadour Raffi tells the story of his unique life and career. From Raffi's early life in Egypt to the premier concert stages of North America, this tale of art and kings, pyramids and passion, follows the travels of an Armenian child and his family of artistic renown, including his father who was a famous color portrait photographer.
Outstanding Formative Assessment: Culture and Practice
Best-selling author Shirley Clarke provides a wealth of high quality ideas, practical strategies, classroom examples and whole-school case studies for teachers in primary and secondary schools. The most comprehensive of Shirley Clarke's titles includes extensive examples and realia, in full colour. The book is clearly structured around the ways in which teachers actually teach, with QR coded web video clips to illustrate key points in action. - Helps teachers create an environment for pupils to be active learners, constant reviewers and self-assessors - Ensures teachers start and finish lessons effectively by initially establishing their prior knowledge and capturing their interest and finally encouraging pupil reflection to find out what has been learnt and what still needs to be developed - Develops learning by helping children articulate their understanding and focusing on constant review and improvement - Focuses on whole-school development including lesson study, assessment policies and stories from outstanding schools Chapters include: 1. Laying the foundations 2. Effective starts to lessons 3. Developing the learning 4. Effective ends to lessons 5. Whole school development
Collective Student Efficacy
"In 2016 John Hattie's number one effect size from 200 influences on learning was revealed as collective teacher efficacy: teachers with the belief that they can improve their students' achievement. This book is based on our thoughts that this powerful belief could also exist between students, enhancing their achievements but also preparing them for real world encounters and job demands. Not just skills of collaboration but, essentially, the confidence to know that they can pursue ambitious goals together. The main barrier we face is the lack of research, apart from one study, about collective student efficacy. We see this book as a platform for setting the scene for research to be carried o...
