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.

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 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!

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.

How to manage their classes is not only every new teachers' first concern, it's an area about which even the most experienced teachers are never complacent. This new edition of the Teachers' Pocketbooks' top-selling title is a practical, authoritative guide to creating calm classes and focused, co-operative students. The book starts from the premise that teachers cannot control the behaviour of children; instead they must seek to influence it. Teachers are most effective in managing behaviour when they focus on antecedents and consequences. This means building relationships and using preventative strategies followed by consistent use of logical consequences. The book covers different styles of behaviour management; getting the basics right; eight core principles and a ten-step discipline plan. A section entitled 'developing the toolkit' offers a broad range of strategies for teachers to use. All are explained in practical, classroom terms with examples of phrases to use for maximum effectiveness. Underpinning the repertoire of techniques is a strong framework: the 4Rs - rights, responsibilities, rules and routines. Liberal use of cartoons, diagrams, mnemonics and other visual devices reinforce the message and fast-track understanding. Authors Peter Hook and Andy Vass are nationally renowned experts in the field of behaviour management. They have acted as consultants to the government as well as to numerous schools and LAs. They are regarded as inspirational trainers, and with more than 60 years' combined teaching experience, their ideas are firmly grounded in classroom experience.

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