BOOKS WE LIKE!
Here you can find some educational books that members of the Newton community have been reading. We will be ordering some of these books for Professional Development opportunities within the school. If you would like to recommend a book to us with a view to buying it to help improve teaching and learning, please use the contact form below to suggest a title.
If you want your students to learn more and you to work less, then this book provides you with all the arguments and evidence you need to become a "lazy," but outstanding teacher. Gathered from over 10 years of experience in the classroom, this handbook of tried-and-tested techniques shifts the emphasis away from teaching and onto learning, and makes your life so much easier in the process.
This powerful little book is packed full of easy-to-apply and highly effective strategies. What s more, they all have the seal of approval by real students in real classrooms. In fact, many of them have been created by the students themselves, but that's why Jim Smith is called the Lazy Teacher. So, next time someone says to you to 'get a life, ' this book will make it possible.
This powerful little book is packed full of easy-to-apply and highly effective strategies. What s more, they all have the seal of approval by real students in real classrooms. In fact, many of them have been created by the students themselves, but that's why Jim Smith is called the Lazy Teacher. So, next time someone says to you to 'get a life, ' this book will make it possible.
Packed with practical classroom strategies this teacher's resource will enable you to: a) meet the needs of different learning styles; b) stimulate your own creativity; c) add spice to your teaching; d) challenge the gifted - and the disruptive!
Whatever subject you teach, this comprehensive volume will help you to develop thinking skills in your students; promote citizenship and an understanding of democracy; fine-tune study skills and help students acquire the attitude and skills for true independence. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology and sociology "The Teacher's Toolkit" provides an overview of recent thinking innovations in teaching and presents over fifty learning techniques for all subjects and age groups, with dozens of practical ideas for managing group work, tackling behavioural issues and promoting personal responsibility. It also presents tools for checking your teaching skills - from lesson planning to performance management.
Whatever subject you teach, this comprehensive volume will help you to develop thinking skills in your students; promote citizenship and an understanding of democracy; fine-tune study skills and help students acquire the attitude and skills for true independence. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology and sociology "The Teacher's Toolkit" provides an overview of recent thinking innovations in teaching and presents over fifty learning techniques for all subjects and age groups, with dozens of practical ideas for managing group work, tackling behavioural issues and promoting personal responsibility. It also presents tools for checking your teaching skills - from lesson planning to performance management.
"The Little Book of Big Stuff About the Brain" is the users, manual that your brain didn`t come with. What it is, how it works, what it looks like, where it came from it's all here in this light-hearted and easy-to-read little book that will guarantee that you will never think about your own thinking in quite the same way ever again.
Whatever role you have in life, every action you undertake, every thought you entertain, every memory you hold, every hang up you possess, every quirk, foible, idiosyncrasy and knack, it s all the result of chemistry and electricity working across a network of squidgy organic matter that you have helped shape throughout your life. So, enjoy this little book about your amazing brain, but remember, as someone once said, If our brains were simple enough to understand them, we would be too simple to understand them .
Whatever role you have in life, every action you undertake, every thought you entertain, every memory you hold, every hang up you possess, every quirk, foible, idiosyncrasy and knack, it s all the result of chemistry and electricity working across a network of squidgy organic matter that you have helped shape throughout your life. So, enjoy this little book about your amazing brain, but remember, as someone once said, If our brains were simple enough to understand them, we would be too simple to understand them .
Teaching outstanding lessons is an aspiration all teachers share, not least because of the buzz they get from knowing that they have made a significant impact on their students.
In highly successful lessons students are better motivated, engaged and interested. They make excellent progress and their attainment levels improve. This cartoon-illustrated Pocketbook, is about how to teach 'stunning lessons that will make an impression on your pupils and knock the socks off your observers'.
Areas covered encompass: developing good relationships with pupils and seeking student feedback; planning great lessons, including objectives, starters, activities and review; six steps to pupil independence; the use of praise and aspects of AfL to harness 'the X factor'; effective use of resources; expanding your repertoire of teaching techniques; communication skills; how to motivate students; using plenaries, group work, thinking skills and behaviour management techniques.
In highly successful lessons students are better motivated, engaged and interested. They make excellent progress and their attainment levels improve. This cartoon-illustrated Pocketbook, is about how to teach 'stunning lessons that will make an impression on your pupils and knock the socks off your observers'.
Areas covered encompass: developing good relationships with pupils and seeking student feedback; planning great lessons, including objectives, starters, activities and review; six steps to pupil independence; the use of praise and aspects of AfL to harness 'the X factor'; effective use of resources; expanding your repertoire of teaching techniques; communication skills; how to motivate students; using plenaries, group work, thinking skills and behaviour management techniques.
What makes twenty of the top performing state schools so successful? Alistair Smith visited them to find out. He asked the same questions in each school and in this book he shares his findings with us.
High Performers is a practical how to guide, packed with tips and drawing on original research. For school leaders and classroom practitioners, it gives sound evidence-based guidance on what some of the best schools have done to succeed on the learning journey.
It focuses on: Core purpose; Student outcomes; Learner engagement; Classroom teaching; Roles and responsibilities; Professional development; Managing data; The school as a community.
High Performers is a practical how to guide, packed with tips and drawing on original research. For school leaders and classroom practitioners, it gives sound evidence-based guidance on what some of the best schools have done to succeed on the learning journey.
It focuses on: Core purpose; Student outcomes; Learner engagement; Classroom teaching; Roles and responsibilities; Professional development; Managing data; The school as a community.
Recommended book from Isabel Agreda, Art Department:
"I have read the book and found it very inspiring. Students (like teachers), as we know, are all different and if we want to help them flourish, we have to acknowledge those differences, diverse interests and passions in life."
The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. It is here that people feel most themselves, inspired and able to achieve at their highest levels.
In this ground-breaking book, world renowned creativity expert Ken Robinson identifies a crisis in education and business: whether it's a child bored in class, a disillusioned or misused employee or someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why, too many people don't realize what they are capable of achieving. Through stories of people - like Vidal Sassoon, Ariana Huffington and Matt Groening - who have recognized their unique talents and been able to make a successful living doing what they love, Robinson argues that age and occupation are no barrier and explains how it is possible for each one of us to reach our element.
"I have read the book and found it very inspiring. Students (like teachers), as we know, are all different and if we want to help them flourish, we have to acknowledge those differences, diverse interests and passions in life."
The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. It is here that people feel most themselves, inspired and able to achieve at their highest levels.
In this ground-breaking book, world renowned creativity expert Ken Robinson identifies a crisis in education and business: whether it's a child bored in class, a disillusioned or misused employee or someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why, too many people don't realize what they are capable of achieving. Through stories of people - like Vidal Sassoon, Ariana Huffington and Matt Groening - who have recognized their unique talents and been able to make a successful living doing what they love, Robinson argues that age and occupation are no barrier and explains how it is possible for each one of us to reach our element.
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS WE LIKE!
Below you can view some videos showing different points of view about education.
We hope that you enjoy them - if you have a video linked to education that you feel would benefit Newton College community in some way, please complete the form below and we will add it to this section of the website.
We hope that you enjoy them - if you have a video linked to education that you feel would benefit Newton College community in some way, please complete the form below and we will add it to this section of the website.
And when the teaching life all becomes a little too much...some inspiration and comforting words...