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A guide for teachers, containing a variety of strategies to develop students' learning skills. Covering everything from traditional learning approaches to more innovative methods, such as how technology and the media can be used to great effect, it also includes tips and advice.

Provides a range of effective strategies for teaching drama. This guide demonstrates how drama can make lessons across the curriculum more interesting and engaging. It 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.

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.

Contains information, ideas and approaches to help you develop your students' thinking skills. This book also covers the organizational aspects of teaching thinking in a classroom setting.

Difficult and unruly students are not exclusive to primary and secondary education, with bad behaviour and motivation being a major concern for many lecturers within the FE sector. This book aims to tackle disruptive behaviour at the outset with advice for coping with minor classroom misdemeanours through to full scale crises.

A survival guide to beating bad behaviour and motivating students in FE. It provides readers with helpful hints and strategies for preventing lower level disruption to coping when things get really tough.

A practical guide for motivating students in the science classroom. Following the winning formula of 'Getting the Buggers to Behave', this practical guide provides teachers with a range of practical strategies that can be used to motivate pupils of all ages.

A fully updated second edition of Sue Cowley's wonderfully accessible guide to helping teachers develop writing strategies for children in the classroom. This new edition contains three new chapters: two on writing in primary and secondary schools and a third on developing writing strategies in different subjects.

Equips teachers with a number of strategies for improving pupils' mathematics and problem-solving skills in the classroom. This book attempts to show how active learning, equipment-based and surprise perspectives can bring mathematics alive. Offering tips and advice on various aspects of teaching mathematics, it is of interest to maths teachers.

Provides teachers with a range of strategies for motivating pupils of various ages in modern foreign languages. Containing material for primary teachers, as well as teaching tips, lesson ideas, and a directory, this book shows how learning a language can be fun.

This practical guide shows readers how to teach students to draw in a step-by-step way. Covering topics as diverse as shading, perspective, shapes, portraits and figures, copious examples of students' work illustrate Barbara Ward's prose.