Everything You Need to know About Teaching But are too Busy to Ask: Essential Briefings for Teachers

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The pace of change within education can be bewildering and for those at the chalkface it can be hard to keep up with the latest developments - even those that have a direct impact on their work. This indispensable book will help all teachers by providing concise and jargon-free briefings on 50 key topics in education. Aimed primarily at busy teachers, the book will help to demystify a whole host of hot topics, ranging from accelerated learning through to NLP through to writing frames.

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Brin Best is an education consultant, writer and trainer. He is the director of the training and consultancy company Innovation for Education Ltd. Will Thomas is a training consultant and performance coach. He is the director of the training company Vision forLearning Ltd. Table of Contents Accelerated learning Active learning Assessment for learning Brain breaks Coaching Cognitive acceleration programmes Constructivism Continuing Professional Development Creativity across the curriculum Differentiation Drama across the curriculum Emotional intelligence Enquiry-based learning Every Child Matters Evidence-based teaching Gender awareness Giving learners a voice Hypnosis in education ICT across the curriculum Inclusion Independent learning Learning preferences Literacy across the curriculum Managing learners? behaviour Managing upwards Managing workload Marking Mentoring Metaphor Mind-mapping More able students Multi-cultural awareness Multiple Intelligences National strategies for schools Neuro-linguistic programming (NIP) Numeracy across the curriculum Oracy across the curriculum Personlization in education Presenting skills Questioning Research in education Self-evaluation Streaming, setting, banding or mixed-ability teaching? Starters and plenaries Target setting approaches Teaching style Thinking skills Transition Underachievement Writing frames / scaffolding