The Learner's Toolkit: Supporting the SEAL Framework for Secondary Schools, Developing Emotional Intelligence, Instilling Values for Life, Creating Independent Learners

This book supports the new Secondary Curriculum in its efforts to promote Personal Development and links diversity to the Social Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) Framework for secondary schools. It gives teachers starting points, plans and examples to help them use their own ideas to support the progress of young people in the most vital of all areas of learning ... how to cope with and contribute to the world in which they find themselves. --Mick Waters, Director of Curriculum, QCA

Developed and honed in the cut and thrust of real classrooms, it directly supports the SEAL programme by addressing three core areas Emotional Intelligence, Learning to Learn and Values for Life. It s not, though, just a how to book for teachers though that aspect is certainly there. What s especially valuable is the wealth of classroom material that s provided detailed lessons, with resources that children will find interesting and challenging. You ve heard all the rhetoric about emotional intelligence, and the need to create confident learners. Now here s a resource that will help you to do something about it, right now, in your classroom. Gerald Haigh, former Headteacher, writer and consultant for the Times Education Supplement and other educational publications --Gerald Haigh, former Headteacher, writer and consultant for the Times Education Supplement and other educational publications

Jackie Beere has produced a powerful and extensive resource for all of us who want learners to become independent, self-aware, socially skilled and responsible. Surely these qualities are the new, broader standards that the nation is now realising matter over and above examination results. Paul Ginnis, Trainer and bestselling author of The Teacher s Toolkit --Paul Ginnis, Trainer and bestselling author of The Teacher s Toolkit

This is an essential resource for supporting the SEAL framework in secondary schools and for all those teaching 11-16 year olds. It contains everything you need to create truly independent learners, confident and resilient in their ability to learn and learn well. The book contains 50 lessons to teach 50 competencies. Each has teacher's notes on leading the lesson and a CD-ROM in the back of the book has all the student forms and worksheets necessary for the lessons. Lessons include: getting to know yourself taking responsibility for your own life persistence and resilience setting goals for life controlling moods caring for your mind and body building brain power asking questions developing willpower pushing yourself out of your comfort zone prioritising and planning Possessing these vital competencies will help students learn better and be able to contribute more effectively in school. It will also enable them to thrive in the increasingly fast-paced world of the 21st century. Click here for the related workbook title The Learner's Toolkit Student Workbook 1. Click here for the related workbook title The Learner's Toolkit Student Workbook 2.