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Steve Higgins
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Steve Higgins
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What Works?
From the authors of the Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit comes What Works?, a must-read guide that summarises the research and hard evidence of what works and what doesn't in primary and secondary classrooms, and provides practical strategies for transforming pupils' progress. Lee Elliot Major and Steve Higgins look at common teaching approaches, including raising aspirations, improving behaviour, outdoor learning and parental engagement. They present the research and evidence behind each approach and provide practical steps for best practice in the classroom to boost the learning and life outcomes of all pupils. Explored in a concise, accessible manner, the research and eviden...
Twisted
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500 ICT Tips for Primary Teachers
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has been the focus of much debate and development within education, especially in the primary sector. This text offers tried and tested ideas for using IT effectively across the whole primary curriculum.
33 Short Stories in a Nutshell
Are you a people watcher because you have interest in the world of persons around you and engaged in so many different activities? These thirty-three short stories capsulate many different orientations in people. Many diverse and interesting situations are zoomed forward so that we can be entertained and maybe laugh. When we laugh at the antics portrayed in these stories, we are laughing at ourselves.
Thinking Through Primary Teaching
This book helps develop children's thinking and understanding of their own learning. Teaching thinking supports the mantra of raising standards in the short term and in the longer term helps pupils to become effective learners. The ideas and suggestions are exciting, engaging and challenging for pupils as well as invigorating for teachers. Thinking Through Primary Teaching is about effective primary teaching. It is about developing children's thinking and understanding of their own learning. Teaching thinking supports the mantra of raising standards in the short term and in the longer term help pupils to become effective learners. Learning needs to be discussed, nurtured and celebrated, so that pupils realise that their teacher may have taught them, but that they have done the learning! The ideas and suggestions are exciting, engaging and challenging for pupils as well as invigorating for teachers.
Whatever Happened to Sara
In 1953 life in Farrar, Missouri, was simple and quiet. The town of less than one hundred was composed of German immigrants who were mostly farmers. The town was centered around their Lutheran church and school. Sara Turner was a twenty-three-year-old elementary teacher at the Salem Lutheran Grade School in Farrar. She was beautiful, and she was loved by this community. She had close friends but was not lucky in romance. The heartache from her first broken romance at the age of twenty-one made Sara cynical and distrustful of men. In July of 1953, Sara Turner was brutally murdered on a deserted county road near Farrar. The small town was shocked to learn that their sweet and dear Sara was kil...
Hidden in Plain Sight
Stories behind essential microfluidic devices, from the inkjet printer to DNA sequencing chip. Hidden from view, microfluidics underlies a variety of devices that are essential to our lives, from inkjet printers to glucometers for the monitoring of diabetes. Microfluidics—which refers to the technology of miniature fluidic devices and the study of fluids at submillimeter levels—is invisible to most of us because it is hidden beneath ingenious user interfaces. In this book, Albert Folch, a leading researcher in microfluidics, describes the development and use of key microfluidic devices. He explains not only the technology but also the efforts, teams, places, and circumstances that enable...
Talking about Learning
Talking about Learning Using templates to find out pupils' views Research clearly shows that children who understand what they are trying to achieve, and who feel that they have ownership (and understanding) of their own learning, tend to be more successful. TALKING ABOUT LEARNING has been developed with classroom teachers and is a very practical resource. The book includes thirty templates which will act as a stimulus for discussion about learning, between children, and between children anwd adults. Using cartoon representations, children will be encouraged to think about and discuss all aspects of learning and teaching, and their own learning and thinking processes. The insights that arise...
