Sue Cowley is a specialist in behaviour management, offering practical and honest advice to teachers and parents. Her books combine accessible and amusing tips, ideas, and strategies grounded in her extensive teaching experience. Through her engaging training courses, she shares her insights on teaching and behaviour management in a fun and dynamic format. Cowley's primary aim is to provide realistic and straightforward guidance to help foster positive learning environments.
Being a good teacher is a difficult goal to achieve, being largely dependent on a huge variety of skills outside of the main curriculum. Teaching Skills For Dummies focuses on these soft skills of teaching, from maintaining discipline to creating engaging lesson plans and monitoring performance.
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.
Show the students a can of dog food, open it, and eat from it. Offer it around the class to see if anyone else will taste it—this is just one of Sue Cowley's infamous methods for captivating students, seizing control, and ensuring good behavior! *(Warning: Read the crucial preparation advice before trying this!) Now in its fifth edition, this guide remains a favorite among trainees, newly qualified teachers, and experienced staff. It offers advice on everything from basic behavior management to handling the most challenging classes, applicable across early years, primary, secondary, and further education, with level-specific examples in every chapter. The book addresses preparing for your first meeting with a new group, developing your teaching style, creating a positive learning environment, and navigating challenging schools. Sue is renowned for her practical, honest, and realistic advice, featuring case studies and anecdotes from her extensive teaching experience and 'agony aunt' style consultations. In this new edition, she explores using incentives for behavior management, implementing restorative justice approaches to change behavior, and identifies the ten most common forms of misbehavior with strategies for addressing them.
A practical guide for teachers, offering a host of ways to help all their students to improve their writing skills. It also offers advice on improving skills and confidence, and getting students excited about writing - not just in literacy or English, but across the curriculum.
This is a fully updated second edition of Starting Teaching, boasting new and improved survival tactics for the newly qualified teacher in the classroom. Dealing with every aspect of the profession, this guide provides information, inspirational advice and top tips for the new teacher facing their first full year of teaching in school. Topics covered include planning, controlling and teaching classes; coping with the administrative workload; developing positive relationships with students, colleagues and parents; and preparing for mentoring sessions, inspection and promotion.
Focusing on self-regulation, this guide illustrates its significance in addressing challenging behaviors, attention, resilience, and impulse control in learners. It examines the impact of post-pandemic challenges in the classroom and provides practical, easy-to-implement strategies for educators. The book is divided into two sections: the theoretical foundations of self-regulation and its practical application in educational settings, allowing readers to easily access relevant strategies as needed. Sue Cowley's approachable writing style makes it a valuable resource for teachers and support staff.