In this book, Sue Cowley looks at the way that behaviour develops during the earliest years of a child's life, exploring how babies and young children learn behaviours and move from co-regulation to self-regulation. She gives practical advice about how to support children in learning all aspects of positive behaviour while they are in your early years setting. She explores the different behaviours that children need to learn and develop in order to be happy and successful learners in their future school careers and beyond. From learning how to share, to learning how to pay attention; from learning how to be responsible, to learning how to be kind. This book covers all these learning behaviours and much, much more. Learning Behaviours is a book full of practical strategies, realistic suggestions and down to earth advice. Sue offers a step by step guide to getting behaviour right, and a range of case studies to help you understand how the approaches work in practice. Sue Cowley is a qualified early years teacher, the author of over 30 books for teachers and an internationally renowned teacher trainer. She has helped to run her local early years setting for the last ten years.

This new edition of Sue Cowley’s bestselling book serves as a practical, up-to-date guide for early career teachers learning to navigate their first two years in the classroom. This introspective toolkit shows you how to not only survive but thrive during the first two years of your teaching career, and this latest edition provides practical new chapters on how to effectively manage your workload and gives plenty of useful teacher wellbeing tips. It reflects the introduction of the Early Career Framework along with revised material on the National Curriculum and the current Education Inspection Framework. Written in Sue Cowley's honest, accessible and down to earth style, How to Survive your First Year in Teaching is a must have for all new teachers at the start of their career.

In The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years, internationally renowned teacher trainer Sue Cowley takes practitioners on a journey: the journey young children embark upon when they learn their first words and make their first marks. Filled with practical activities and honest advice, this must-have guide presents a wide range of creative approaches to developing mark making and building language skills in the Early Years. With ideas to build finger strength and eye-to-hand coordination, activities for understanding the concept of symbols and signs and strategies for building confidence in reading and writing including talk and drama, you'll find a variety of techniques to develop children's key skills and motivation. Sue also includes full-colour photographs and examples of early marks to illustrate how young children's communication skills develop. There are tips for getting boys engaged in writing and a companion website with downloadable resources and useful links. The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years is an invaluable source of inspiration for all those working with children aged three to seven.

This book is the ultimate guide to differentiation and adaptive teaching in early years, schools and further education settings by Sue Cowley, bestselling author of Getting the Buggers to Behave. It offers over 90 practical and time-saving strategies in every classroom. The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation demonstrates how teachers already differentiate and adapt their teaching much of the time, in subtle and creative ways. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. The book takes the reader through the different methods and approaches to differentiation and adaptive teaching, providing a step-by-step guide to each. It is broken down into five core areas - planning, resources, learners, teaching and assessment - and readers can dip in and out to find strategies as and when they need them. Written in Sue's much loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to feel confident that they are meeting the needs of every learner.

This is a thoroughly practical guide for teachers, offering a whole host of ways to help all their students to improve their writing skills. In this third edition, bestselling author Sue Cowley offers advice on improving skills and confidence, and getting students excited about writing - not just in literacy or English, but across the curriculum. This book is full of engaging and creative approaches for writers at all stages of confidence and competence: from children just starting to write, to experienced learners looking to perfect their own style. This edition includes new material on: writing in the Digital Age; creative ideas for getting boys to write; and, cross-curricular writing projects. On the companion website you'll find lots of useful extras, including advice about the teacher as writer - how you can use your writing skills beyond the school. This thoroughly practical guide will interest all educators who want to maximise the potential of every one of their students. It is an invaluable resource for teachers working at secondary and FE level, but equally a source of inspiration and practical advice for practitioners in primary schools. This innovative series provides teaching practitioners with a wealth of practical advice for use in a variety of educational settings.

Is teaching an art, rather than a science? Instead of measuring education and reducing everything to data, what if we looked at it through the lens of the arts? Sue Cowley demonstrates how teachers can become artists, sculptors, actors, dancers, musicians, playwrights, poets, designers and directors, no matter which subject or age group they happen to be teaching. The artful educator paints the air with ideas and weaves magic with words. They aren't afraid of a little risk, or of planning and delivering lessons a little differently. Learn how to be more creative, experimental, playful and imaginative in the methods you use to manage your classroom, and in the myriad ways in which you help your students to learn. Discover what an 'artful attitude' to education looks like, with plenty of practical, real-life ideas for artful teaching and learning. Sue has collected inspiring examples of how colleagues in a range of settings, from early years to secondary and further education, are already using artful approaches in their classrooms. Find out how to engage with your artful side, reinvigorate your approach to teaching and inspire yourself and your children with the pure joy of learning. Getting artful can involve borrowing techniques from the arts to use in teaching, getting learners hands-on with creating artworks themselves and also engaging learners with great existing works of art, cultivating the cultural capital that comes from this in the process. A collection of suggestions designed to inspire you to take creative risks with your learners, this is a book for explorers and rebels. An ideal resource for trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers alike, The Artful Educator is for anyone looking for inventive, innovative approaches to teaching. Contents include: Part One: Artful Attitudes Chapter 1. The Artful Philosophy Chapter 2. Artful Attitudes to Learning Chapter 3. Artful Attitudes to Creativity Chapter 4. Planning to be Artful Part Two: The Artful Educator Chapter 5. The Actor Chapter 6. The Playwright Chapter 7. The Film Director Chapter 8. The Set Designer Chapter 9. The Prop Designer< Chapter 10. The Costume Designer Chapter 11. The Storyteller Chapter 12. The Author Chapter 13. The Artist Chapter 14. The Sculptor Chapter 15. The Musician and the Singer Chapter 16. The Dancer Chapter 17. The Chef Ten Tiny Steps

There should be a copy in every staffroom...In short it's invaluable: keep it under lock or key, or your colleagues will pinch it." TES ?This book will help you negotiate the minefield that is the teaching profession. It?s realistic, practical and stuffed with valuable information.? Sue Cowley This is the definitive teaching resource for trainees everywhere. Drawing on the advice of professionals from every sphere of education, teaching guru, Sue Cowley, presents a vivid insider's guide to surviving in teaching - from preparing for teaching practice and finding a job, to planning lessons and managing behaviour, right through to grappling with ICT and progressing your career Illustrated throughout with checklists, real-life documents and a series of interviews with people working in education, this is the most user-friendly, entertaining and realistic book on teaching ever published. The second edition of this classic text has been fully up-dated and boasts a new chapter on ?teaching and learning?, a series of new interviews and an edu-speak jargon-buster.

In this book, Sue Cowley offers teachers a practical and easy to read guide to the subject of group work. She explains a variety of strategies that teachers can use immediately in their classrooms, to help all their students work more effectively in groups. Sue offers advice on using group work for the right reasons and on helping students take on different roles within groups. She examines the rights and responsibilities required for great group work, offers routines and structures for helping group work run smoothly, and shows you how to give your students the richest possible learning experience. This book will help you gain a fresh insight into a key teaching technique. You will learn how to use groups more effectively and, through doing so, enhance learning for all your students. This mini guide is written in Sue's much-loved honest and straight talking style. No theory, no jargon, just down to earth techniques that really work. Whatever the age of students or the subject you teach, your classroom practice will benefit from the strategies and techniques that she reveals here. Read Sue's concise guide now and find out how to get all your students learning well in groups.

In this concise guide, Sue Cowley shares a wealth of tips on writing for a living. She gives practical advice on finding the motivation to write and on creating a daily writing routine. She explains how to prepare a book proposal that will win you a book contract, and looks at how to go about self-publishing your work. Sue offers great advice on effective methods for writing, editing and preparing a book for publication, based on her fifteen years as a published author. She shows you how to find different income streams for your writing and how to manage the financial aspects of being a writer. She gives you invaluable tips on reading, understanding and negotiating publishing contracts. She also explores how to market your writing effectively, and build an author brand. If you hope to make a career as a published writer, then this book will help you do just that. This mini guide is written in Sue's much-loved honest and straight talking style. Her focus is on practical tips and realistic advice that will help you turn your love of writing into a viable career. Read Sue's short guide now and find out how you too can write for a living.

In this brand new 'at a glance' guide, best-selling education author Sue Cowley introduces you to the key principles of brilliant voice usage in the classroom. In this book she deals with a diverse range of voice-related topics: how to adapt and develop your tone of voice, how to find the right pitch for the right purpose, how pronunciation works and why it matters so much, how to project your voice in different teaching spaces, how to pace your speaking for maximum impact, and much, much more. In this concise guide to the subject, Sue also explains how your voice works, and how you can protect it from damage - essential guidance for all teachers, both new and experienced.
As with all the guides in the 'Alphabet Sevens' series, this book offers practical and realistic strategies that you can use to improve what happens in your classroom - immediately. Sue Cowley is renowned among both new and experienced teachers for the honest and helpful nature of her advice. In this book, she condenses all her expertise and experience into a mini guide that is quick to read and indispensable to own. If you've ever wanted to know more about how verbal communication works, or if you've ever wondered how best to use your voice, then this book is for you.
Sue Cowley is the author of over twenty books on teaching and parenting. Her publications have been translated around the world, and include 'Teaching Skills for Dummies', 'How to Survive your First Year in Teaching' and the international best seller, 'Getting the Buggers to Behave'. Sue's books feature as set texts on teacher training courses at many UK universities. Sue is a renowned teacher trainer and motivational speaker, and she has trained thousands of teachers, both in the UK and in Europe.

In this short book, Sue Cowley gathers together a huge variety of techniques that will all boost reading for pleasure in your school or setting. She explains a range of approaches that teachers and practitioners can use with their children, to help them become highly motivated readers. Sue examines the best ways to support emerging readers and to build reading expertise. She gives ideas for engaging students with different kinds of texts, and for creating an environment that will inspire a love of reading. Sue also examines ways to harness the power of emotions and experiences to get all of your children reading for pleasure. This mini guide is written in Sue's much-loved honest and straight talking style. No theory, no jargon, just down to earth approaches that really work. Whatever age of children you teach, your students will benefit from the strategies and techniques that she reveals here. Read Sue's concise book now and get all of your students to build a lifelong love of reading.

In this 'at a glance' guide, Sue Cowley introduces teachers to the key principles of Positive Behaviour Management - her 'Seven C's'. This book offers practical and realistic strategies that you can use to improve behaviour in your classroom and your school - immediately. Whatever age group you teach, her ideas will help and inspire you. Sue Cowley is renowned among both new and experienced teachers for the honest and helpful nature of her advice. Here she condenses all her expertise and experience into a mini guide that is quick to read and indispensable to own. Whether you're brand new to the profession, or you've been teaching for years, this book will give you useful and creative strategies for managing behaviour, and a boost to your classroom management skills. Written by a UK author, this book will also be useful for teachers right around the world. Mini guide: approx. 50 pages (10,000 words)

In this short guide, Sue Cowley offers practical advice for improving differentiation in the classroom. She explains a variety of techniques and strategies that teachers can use straight away, to help all their students learn more effectively. In this short book Sue offers advice on using targets and timing, tips on creating groups for differentiated learning, thoughts on developing higher order thinking for all your students, and much much more. This 'at a glance' guide will help you gain a fresh insight into a complex topic. You will learn how to differentiate more effectively, without spending lots of extra time on planning and preparation. Mini guide: approx. 70 pages (15,000 words)

Sue Cowley's bestselling behaviour guide. Essential reading for all teachers in all schools. 'Show the students the can of dog food, open it up and then eat from it. Offer it round the class to see if anyone else will have a taste...'* This is just one of Sue Cowley's infamous ways of captivating your students, seizing control and getting that unruly class to behave! *(WARNING: Make sure you read the crucial preparation advice before putting this idea into practice!) Now in its fifth edition, Getting the Buggers to Behave remains a firm favourite with trainees, newly qualified teachers and experienced staff alike. The advice ranges from the basics of behaviour management to how to deal with the class from hell and is applicable whether you are working in the early years, primary, secondary or further education, with level-specific examples in every chapter. The book covers preparing for your first meeting with a new group of students, developing your individual teaching style, creating a positive learning environment and working in really challenging schools. Sue is famed for the practical, honest and realistic nature of her advice, and all her ideas include case studies and anecdotes based on her years of experience working as a teacher and the stories and problems she has advised on 'agony aunt' style. In this brand new edition, Sue takes a detailed look at the use of incentives for managing behaviour, considers how to implement a restorative justice approach in order to change children's behaviour and also identifies the ten most common forms of misbehaviour and how to deal with them. So, if your two-year-olds are ignoring you, your Year 11s are unmanageable, your tutor group is running riot or that unmentionable nine-year-old is driving you round the bend then this is the book for you!

The success of Sue Cowley's Getting the Buggers to Behave, a guide to managing behavior in the classroom, produced a number of interesting consequences. In her travels to promote the book, Cowley met a number of teachers who bought her book, not to use at school but to use at home as an aid to handling their own children. In speaking engagements and interviews, she kept hearing that "your ideas would work for parents too." There was a general sense that a teacher hardened by teaching 30+ kids at a time must know a thing or two--and parents wanted access to the professional insider's knowledge. Applying the same principles that Cowley developed as a professional educator, Getting Your Darlings to Behave is the guide to child behavior that Cowley's fans have eagerly awaited.

This wonderfully accessible and practical guide provides a range of effective strategies for teaching drama. Written with her usual practicality, humour and optimism, Sue Cowley demonstrates how drama can make lessons across the curriculum more interesting and engaging. This fascinating guide is aimed both at the specialist drama teacher and at those who are interested in using drama to help them deliver other areas of the curriculum. It will also be particularly helpful to staff at primary level who have found themselves lumbered with "putting on the school play"!

'Within this book you'll find lots of information, ideas and approaches to help you develop your students' thinking skills. As with all my books, my aim here is to give you practical strategies for developing these skills, ones that you can actually put directly into use in your classroom. As well as offering you suggestions for exercises and activities, I also cover the organizational aspects of teaching thinking in a classroom setting. The advice that I give will be applicable to teachers' right across the primary and secondary spectrum, and for those who are working in all different areas of the curriculum.' - Sue Cowley. The new edition of the best-selling book contains a brand new chapter which features the best readers' suggestions on Getting the Buggers to Think.

A fully up-dated second edition of Sue Cowley's wonderfully accessible guide to helping teachers develop writing strategies for children in the classroom. The new edition contains three new chapters: two on writing in elementary and high schools and a third on developing writing strategies in different subjects. With the practicality, humour and optimism that characterize all her teaching and writing, Sue Cowley guides colleagues through all the stages of teaching writing--from motivating students to want to write through helping them shape, structure and correct their work.