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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!

This practical guide from bestselling education author Sue Cowley breaks down what self-regulation is, how it develops and and how you can support your learners to build and improve it. The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation explains what self-regulation is and demonstrates how it relates to challenging learner behaviour, focus and attention, resilience and impulse control. Sue Cowley explains how it shows up in the everyday classroom, including how it relates to post-pandemic behavioural challenges, and offers easy-to-implement solutions to support learners of all ages. The book is broken down into two sections - the theory behind self-regulation, and how it develops in the classroom - 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 Self-Regulation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to improve outcomes for every learner.

Sue Cowley's bestselling behaviour guide is back, updated and better than ever. 'Day after day, you arrive at your job, only to face students who simply will not behave. You begin to dread coming into work, knowing that you have to face such a difficult day. What can you do? First, read this book.'In this brand new edition, Sue takes a detailed look at positive behaviour management, considers recent advances in understanding self-regulation, and offers specific advice on tackling behavioural challenges in the post-Covid classroom. Getting Your Class to Behave is the positive, practical answer to poor behaviour you've been looking for!The latest and greatest edition of the classic Getting the Buggers to Behave, this behaviour management bible has long been a firm favourite with trainees, early career teachers and experienced staff alike. The advice ranges from the basics of behaviour management to how to deal with any tricky class and is applicable whether you are working in the early years, primary, secondary or further education. Sue offers honest, straightforward support with case studies, anecdotes and level-specific examples in every chapter. Sue knows that no matter how much passion and care you have for the job, there's no match for poor behaviour like tried-and-tested techniques. If your two-year-olds are ignoring you, your Year 11s are distracted, or your tutor group is not-so-quietly chaotic then this is the book for you!

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 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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Drawing on the advice of professionals from various spheres of education, this guide gives an insider's perspective into the work of being a teacher in its various aspects - planning, teaching, assessment, technology, management, career progression and more. It is illustrated with checklists, real-life documents and sound bites from teachers.

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.