Creative Teaching Pocketbook - Softcover

Roy Watson-Davis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906610169 ISBN 13: 9781906610166

Publisher: Management Pocketbooks, 2011

Synopsis

All teachers look to deliver inspiring, innovative and imaginative lessons. That way they engage their students and help them learn more effectively. The new edition of the Creative Teaching Pocketbook condenses into one pocket-size companion numerous practical ideas and suggestions for creative approaches to teaching. The extensively illustrated pocketbook is aimed at teachers working in primary and secondary education in England but is also relevant to teachers working in other parts of the UK and overseas. It starts with 'challenging your comfort zones' and highlights the importance of teamwork with students and colleagues. Ideas for creative starters, middles and plenaries include active approaches to lessons. There is an expanded section on making technology work for you with advice on how using the latest tools can save teachers time while making learning relevant and exciting. Questioning techniques are discussed and a section devoted to revision includes strategies to help visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners. Author Roy Watson-Davis has been teaching since 1992 and has been an Advanced Skills Teacher since 2001. He oversees initial teacher training, and NQT mentoring and is responsible for promoting accelerated learning. He has both written and featured in the TES (Times Educational Supplement).

About this title

About the Author:

Author Roy Watson-Davis has twelve years' teaching experience, the last three as an Advanced Skills Teacher. He oversees initial teacher training, and NQT mentoring and is responsible for promoting accelerated learning. Recently he supported a school in special measures, offering in-class strategies across a range of subjects. He has both written and featured in the TES Times Educational Supplement).

Review:

This is a wonderful book. It is a pocket-sized compendium of good ideas, lively practice and fun-packed innovation. Written by an advanced skills teacher, it is not just a pre-packaged collection of someone else's charismatic wacky wheezes; rather it has the sense of coming from someone who knows the realities of the classroom. There are hints on organising the classroom, a fine section on revision techniques, and tip after tip on how to make your teaching relevant and inspiring. I like the washing-line idea for hanging up quotations and equations, the use of pictures to summarise key points, hangman games to guess the leaning objective and getting students to throw paper aeroplanes with their questions written on. Just check your school's health and safety policy first. As with all the best books for teachers, the author focuses on the needs of the learner with hints for visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning styles, and practical tips such as bringing in a big alarm clock to teach examination time-management. Advanced skills teachers aren t always the best people to write books of advice for other teachers; they can demoralise with their expertise. This tiny book is an exception: a wonderful stocking-filler for any teacher near you; an inspiring and funny read; a real gem. --Times Educational Supplement (TES)

About this edition

• Publisher: Management Pocketbooks
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1906610169
• ISBN 13: 9781906610166
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128