This book brings together a range of powerful beliefs and strategies to enhance the personal development and self-esteem of teachers. It explores practical ways in which teachers can increase their effectiveness and enhance the learning climate in their classrooms, and focuses on the most important resource teachers have - themselves!

Powerful behavior management approaches, influential language patterns and core skills for building positive relationships are presented in a detailed and well-structured style making it easy to incorporate them into practice. The integrated activities provide sustained and valuable professional development, inviting teachers to reflect on what it is they do well and in doing so generate confidence and motivation.

Set within the realistic context of classrooms today, it offers crucial insights into the often subtle skills which outstanding teachers demonstrate.

This book brings together a range of powerful beliefs and strategies to enhance the personal development and self-esteem of teachers. It explores practical ways in which teachers can increase their effectiveness and enhance the learning climate in their classrooms, and focuses on the most important resource teachers have - themselves!

First Published in 2000. Confident Classroom Leadership offers newly qualified and experienced teachers highly practical and successful skills to empower and support them in their key role of effectively managing classrooms. Powerful behaviour management approaches, influential language patterns and core skills for building positive relationships are presented in a detailed and well- structured style making it easy to incorporate them into practice.

This book offers teachers important insights into the emotional classroom climate necessary for successful and effective learning. Following from the first book, Confident Classroom Leadership, the authors present a range of ideas and understandings to support teachers in proactively building and sustaining an emotionally empowering classroom. The beliefs and behaviors that underpin and develop positive self-esteem and strong motivation in students are described in an accessible and informative format. This not only invites readers to reflect on their teaching style, it also encourages them to comfortably integrate the strategies and ideas into their existing practice. As you would expect from two highly experienced practitioners, the book is firmly based in the reality of today's busy classrooms.

This book offers teachers important insights into the emotional classroom climate necessary for successful and effective learning. Following from the first book, Confident Classroom Leadership, the authors present a range of ideas and understandings to support teachers in proactively building and sustaining an emotionally empowering classroom.
The beliefs and behaviors that underpin and develop positive self-esteem and strong motivation in students are described in an accessible and informative format. This not only invites readers to reflect on their teaching style, it also encourages them to comfortably integrate the strategies and ideas into their existing practice. As you would expect from two highly experienced practitioners, the book is firmly based in the reality of today's busy classrooms.

Strategies for Closing the Learning Gap has been written as a practical companion to the hugely successful Closing the Learning Gap. In this, his fourth book, Mike Hughes attempts to translate the explosion in our understanding of how the brain works into practical strategies that will work in the classroom. The book: highlights some of the key issues emerging from recent discoveries about the brain simplifies them; offers practical strategies and ideas as to how to apply this research in the classroom; The strategies described have been:; written by teachers for teachers; successfully implemented and refined in the classroom; effective in increasing motivation, improving learning and raising attainment