CPD Spotlight

CPD SPOTLIGHT: BOOKS

Every issue we highlight books from our CPD collection that either match the theme of the issue or contain information pertinent to current events. All of these are available in the Junior/Senior Library

Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom

Amy Burval & Dan Ryder

How might we choreograph a short story, remix a political party, sketchnote an equation, costume a scientific phenomenon, or hashtag a nutrition plan? Veteran classroom educators, Amy Burvall and Dan Ryder, believe intentional acts of creative expression enables deeper learning, turning the creative spirit into a force for authentic understanding.

Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom provides a catalog of field-tested, student-centered activities, lessons and experiences ready for integration into any classroom. Each item in the catalog features a pathway for facilitating the thinking and making, an inventory of critical thinking skills developed during the experience, multiple suggestions for content area integration, and ideas for further enrichment and exploration.

How to Develop Growth Mindsets in the Classroom : The Complete Guide

Mike Gershon

In this timely and compelling book, bestselling author Mike Gershon presents you with everything you need to develop growth mindsets in your classroom. Calling on a wealth of teaching and training experience, Mike sets out the different areas of pedagogy you need to focus on, then gives you the practical strategies you can use to make change happen.

With more than 200 exemplar questions and over sixty strategies, activities and techniques, this book is your go to guide for establishing, cultivating and sustaining growth mindsets in the students you teach. It's the starting point for your growth mindsets journey.

CPD SPOTLIGHT: BOOKS

Every issue we highlight books from our CPD collection that either match the theme of the issue or contain information pertinent to current events. All of these are available in the Junior/Senior Library

Engaging Learners: 100 ideas for secondary teachers

Roy Howarth

Are your students really engaged in your teaching? Teachers everywhere are looking for quick and easy ways to liven up their lessons, try something new and exciting, or just tweak a strategy or practice that they have been doing for years. This is a 'recipe style' book that you can dip in and out of when you are looking for inspiration. It contains techniques and activities to apply to every area of classroom teaching, from livening up displays to using technology effectively, and even includes advice on greeting students and providing motivational feedback.

Outstanding teaching : Engaging Learners

Andy Griffith & Mark Burns

In an era when responsibility for exam results lies with teachers and not their students, it's time to redress the balance so that students are more accountable for their own learning. This text is packed with proven advice for teachers on how to engage learners, unpick intrinsic motivation, and develop independent study.

Based on five years of intensive research through Osiris Education's award-winning Outstanding Teaching Intervention program this book is packed with proven advice and innovative tools that were developed in these successful outstanding lessons. Written in the same humorous, thought-provoking style with which they both teach and train, the authors aim to challenge all who teach, from newly qualified teachers to seasoned professionals, to reflect on their day-to-day practice and set an agenda for sustainable improvement.