Books: Teachers Practical advice


Talking About Death and Bereavement in School Ann Chadwick ISBN: 9781849052467 www.jkp.com


£11.99


Children experiencing bereavement are often confused, unprepared, and in need of help and support from those around them. It is important that teachers and staff know how to respond to bereavement and how they can best help the child. This book offers simple but


important advice and guidance for teachers and school staff on what to do when a child is grieving. It includes advice on explaining death to children, insights into how children may be feeling and how they may react, and ways in which they can be supported. The book also covers how


bereavement can affect a child and how it can affect the whole school in the case of a death of a pupil or staff member. It also stresses the importance of teaching the facts of death to children and includes ideas on how to incorporate this into lessons. This book is ideal for all staff in


a school setting who are in need of easily digestible and practical guidance on how to support children after bereavement. Ann Chadwick is a retired


qualified social worker and senior lecturer in social work. She has written bereavement materials and led workshops throughout the UK for bereavement counselling agencies.


Lesson tips


Outstanding Lessons Pocketbook Caroline Bentley-Davies ISBN: 9781906610357 www.teacherspocketbooks.co.uk


£7.99


This cartoon-illustrated pocketbook is about how to teach “stunning lessons that will make an impression on your pupils and knock the socks off your observers”. It begins by scotching some of


the myths about what inspectors expect to see in a lesson, focusing instead on the reality.


38 Areas covered encompass:


developing good relationships with pupils and seeking student feedback; planning great lessons, including objectives, starters, activities and review; six steps to pupil independence; the use of praise and aspects of AfL to harness “the X factor”; effective use of resources; expanding your repertoire of teaching techniques; communication skills; how to motivate students; using plenaries, group work, thinking skills and behaviour management techniques. The final chapter includes a


helpful self-audit and offers advice on where to seek inspiration and on what reviewers are looking for in lesson observations. Author Caroline Bentley-Davies has been a middle leader in three schools, a local authority education adviser and an educational consultant in the UK and overseas. She has run demonstration lessons in over 80 schools and conducts training sessions for teachers across a range of subject areas.


personal strengths; becoming an ally to others facing bullying; resolving conflicts directly; and using technology and social media ethically.


Phonics guide


Every Phoneme Covered Steve Way and Simon Hickton ISBN: 9781907515415 www.hopscotchbooks.com


£15.99


This is a new, versatile phonics resource comprising of a teacher’s guide and CD that can be used for teaching phonics from the first building blocks of literacy to an advanced level. The guide includes a comprehensive explanation of the technicalities and terminology of phonics, along with an extensive list of exemplary words for each phoneme. The CD includes sentences, stories and other genres appealing to children, covering each phoneme in three parts starting with a comical


sentence, cue or cues, then texts of increasing length to help children practise further and gain experience in using the particular phonemes.


Hands-on help


Improving Classroom Performance Stephen Chapman, Steve Garnett and Alan Jervis ISBN: 9781845906948 www.crownhouse.co.uk


£25.00


Dragonfly Training was founded in 1999 and provides practical training courses for teachers. In this book three of its trainers provide some hands- on approaches to teaching. The book provides practical


strategies that can be used by all teachers including: How you present yourself in the classroom; rules, routines and rituals for establishing effective learning patterns; making your classroom the one every student wants to be in; and using ICT to the maximum.


Beat bullying


Friendship and Other Weapons: Group Activities to Help Young Girls Aged 5-11 to Cope with Bullying Signe Whitson ISBN: 9781849058759 www.jkp.com


£19.99


This photocopiable resource book provides educators, social workers and counsellors with a complete, ready-to-use group curriculum to help young girls aged 5–11 build constructive and fulfilling friendships. Based on thought-provoking discussions, engaging games, strength-discovering exercises, and confidence-boosting fun, the activities in Friendship and Other Weapons build critical knowledge and friendship survival skills such as: recognising the red flags of girl bullying; responding assertively to bullying behaviour, realising


Reading Explorers A forward thinking approach to Guided Reading


Available for Years 2 to 6


This brilliant series provides teachers with a wide variety of genres, both fi ction and non-fi ction, which will allow children to access, interpret and understand what they are reading.


The thinking and reasoning skills contained in the books are:


• Literal thinking • Deductive reasoning • Inferential skills • Evaluative assessment of texts • Study skills promoting wider independent study


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