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Sue Cowley

    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.

    Getting the Buggers to Write
    Getting the Buggers to Behave
    The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation
    Learning Behaviours
    Teaching Skills For Dummies
    Road School
    • 2025

      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.

      The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation in the Classroom
    • 2021

      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.

      Learning Behaviours
    • 2019

      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.

      The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years
    • 2018

      The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
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      This book is the ultimate guide to differentiation 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 for effective differentiation in every classroom.The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation demonstrates how teachers already differentiate 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 to differentiate, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. The book takes the reader through the different methods and approaches to differentiation, 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.

      The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation
    • 2017

      The Artful Educator

      • 216 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      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
    • 2016

      Road School

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Frustrated by a regime of statutory testing, and keen for a midlife adventure, Sue Cowley and her partner decided to step out of the system, and set off on the educational adventure of a lifetime with their children.

      Road School
    • 2011

      Getting the Buggers to Write

      • 248 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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.

      Getting the Buggers to Write
    • 2009

      Teaching Skills For Dummies

      • 360 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
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      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.

      Teaching Skills For Dummies
    • 2003

      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.

      How to Survive Your First Year in Teaching