Author: Alan Pritchard
Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
Keywords: learning, fulton, books, david, styles, theories, ways, classroom
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2008-12-10
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0415466083
ISBN-13: 9780415466080

Teachers are very good at providing excellent opportunities for children’s learning to progress. Often, without fully understanding the reasons why, teachers encourage learning in their charges which works very well, and is a very good approach at a particular time with a particular child or group of children. With greater insight into what is currently known about the processes of learning and about individual learning preferences, teachers are able to provide even better learning situations which are even more likely to lead to effective learning. This book seeks to provide the detail whic

Author: Rosemary Feasey
Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
Keywords: ages, activities, games, science, jumpstart
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0415482127
ISBN-13: 9780415482127

Jumpstart! Science provides teachers with a range of lively, short, fun activities and games to support teaching and learning in different aspects of the science curriculum. It encourages teachers to develop creative approaches to motivating and engaging children in science. The activities are aimed at a number of areas of science from learning scientific words to recalling information and problem solving. This fun book helps to ‘jumpstart’: lessons plenary sessions children moving from one aspect of science or type of learning in science to another. There are more than 55 enga

Author: Stephen Bowkett
Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
Keywords: ages, activities, games, creativity, jumpstart
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-10-11
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0415432731
ISBN-13: 9780415432733

Jumpstart Creativity! is a book of games and activities that any primary teacher can do quickly, at the beginning of a lesson or as a time-filler, with little preparation. They grab children’s attention and get them focussed on learning. There are more than fifty provocative games and activities including, ’An Alien in the Cage is Worth Two on the Moon’ and ’Faced with a Smilemma, Everybody Wins’ to ‘jumpstart’ creativity in any Key Stage 2 or 3 classroom. Practical, easy-to-do and vastly entertaining, the ‘jumpstarts’ will suit a range of learning styles â€

Authors:Teresa Cremin, Roger McDonald, Emma Goff, Louise Blak
Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
Keywords: ages, activities, games, drama, jumpstart
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2009-04-29
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0415482488
ISBN-13: 9780415482486

Jumpstart! Drama contains more than forty engaging, practical, easy-to-do and highly motivating drama activities which will appeal to busy primary teachers who wish to enliven their practice and make more use of drama in line with the Framework for Literacy. All the activities connect to well-known texts, which are popular in primary classrooms, and the conventions described can be used in a variety of subjects, suiting a wide range of learning styles. The book is organised around four sections which can be dipped into, each providing rich and accessible ideas to stimulate drama in the cla

Author: Lyn Dawes
Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
Keywords: key, stage, learning, listening, speaking, essential
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-06-24
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415449626
ISBN-13: 9780415449625

Talk is the medium through which children learn; and yet children may not realise why their contributions to classroom talk are so important. This book provides teachers with resources for developing children’s understanding of speaking and listening, and their skills in using talk for learning. The Essential Speaking and Listening will: help children to become more aware of how talk is valuable for learning raise their awareness of how and why to listen attentively and to speak with confidence encourage dialogue and promote effective group discussion integrate sp

Author: Ramon Lewis
Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
Keywords: teachers, david, fulton, books, techniques, management, pupil, behaviour, classroom, understanding
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2009-01-16
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0415483530
ISBN-13: 9780415483537

This book describes a system of successful classroom behaviour management techniques developed by the author over more than twenty-five years. It outlines the difficulties confronting teachers trying to manage pupils’ misbehaviour in schools and describes four types of pupil who can be helped to behave responsibly. In Understanding Pupil Behaviour Ramon Lewis explains how pupils’ behaviour can be categorised and how techniques can be introduced to deal with each category, however challenging the behaviour might be. The book goes on to provide a framework for long-term commitment by t

Author: Suzanne Saunders
Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
Keywords: teachers, guide, syndrome, fragile
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-03-16
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 1853465364
ISBN-13: 9781853465369

Fragile X Syndrome is thought to be the most common inherited cause of learning difficulties. However many people have never heard of it and those who have, including many of the professionals who work with those affected by it, have little knowledge or understanding of the condition. This book brings up to date research with information and advice from teachers who are discovering, first hand, the best ways of educating children with Fragile X. It is much needed support and advice that will help teachers to understand the child with Fragile X and encourage maximum educational progress. / W