A Teacher's Guide To... Teaching Outstanding Lessons: A Practical Handbook for Busy Teachers: Volume 2 - Softcover

**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION TEXT. A NEW EDITION IS NOW AVAILABLE WITH THE SHORTER TITLE 'A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO...OUTSTANDING LESSONS'. GO TO WWW.SOLUTIONSFORSCHOOL.CO.UK FOR MORE INFO OR SEARCH AMAZON** ABOUT THE SERIES 'A Teacher's Guide To...' is a series of short books ideal for new teachers as well as those about to embark on teacher training programmes. Written in a friendly and fluent style, these books provide perfect synopses of the key ideas and issues affecting teachers today. All the books in this series are practical handbooks for busy teachers – books of ideas which can be put into practice and which can be dipped into when help and advice are needed most. The author is not a university professor; he is a teacher who has worked in schools for over a decade. He has worked at senior leader level in two secondary schools and has, at one time or another, managed every aspect of a school’s organisation. He has helped schools on the journey towards ‘outstanding’: one school became a beacon of good practice in teaching and learning; another became the highest achieving comprehensive school in its authority and one of the top five most improved schools in the country; a school judged 'good with outstanding features' under the new Ofsted framework within three years of emerging from 'special measures'. ABOUT THIS BOOK 'A Teacher's Guide To... Teaching Outstanding Lessons' is Volume 2 in the series and covers: 1. The Ofsted context 2. What is outstanding teaching? 3. What is outstanding behaviour? 4. What is personalised learning? 5. What is learning to learn? 6. What is connected learning? 7. How do you engage students in learning? It also contains detailed appendices on: I. Assessment for learning II. Learning to learn III. Social and emotional aspects of learning IV. Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills V. Assessing Pupil Progress This book debates the main theories AND provides hands-on advice and strategies.

ABOUT THE SERIES 'A Teacher's Guide To...' is a series of short books ideal for new teachers as well as those about to embark on teacher training programmes. Written in a friendly and fluent style, these books provide perfect synopses of the key ideas and issues affecting teachers today. All the books in this series are practical handbooks for busy teachers – books of ideas which can be put into practice and which can be dipped into when help and advice are needed most. The author is not a university professor; he is a teacher who has worked in schools for over a decade. He has worked at senior leader level in two secondary schools and has, at one time or another, managed every aspect of a school’s organisation. He has helped schools on the journey towards ‘outstanding’: one school became a beacon of good practice in teaching and learning; another became the highest achieving comprehensive school in its authority and one of the top five most improved schools in the country; a school judged 'good with outstanding features' under the new Ofsted framework within three years of emerging from 'special measures'. ABOUT THIS BOOK 'A Teacher's Guide To... Teaching Outstanding Lessons' is Volume 2 in the series and covers: 1. The Ofsted context 2. What is outstanding teaching? 3. What is outstanding behaviour? 4. What is personalised learning? 5. What is learning to learn? 6. What is connected learning? 7. How do you engage students in learning? It also contains detailed appendices on: I. Assessment for learning II. Learning to learn III. Social and emotional aspects of learning IV. Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills V. Assessing Pupil Progress This book debates the main theories AND provides hands-on advice and strategies.