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Looking for some resources for your classroom. Then take a stroll around the Clickteaching Bookshop and find some inspirational ideas for your lessons. All books are sold in association with Amazon through a secure ordering system.
 Classroom Management
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Creating the Peaceable Classroom
PressThrough step-by-step instructions and the latest research on the brain, this resource provides strategies for optimizing the learning environment for both teachers and students. Learn how to enhance your own well-being and use techniques such as guided imagery, conscious breathing, music, and drawing to calm, focus, or energize your students.
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Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children
A volume offering ideas for classroom activities for children aged six and up. It is geared towards gifted and talented children, but other children should benefit from the activities too. The activities cover many types of creative and critical thinking skills that should enable all children to develop their cognitive processes. The work that the children produce should be extremely different because the activities allow room for creativity and open-ended answers.
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Outside the box 7-9
This photocopiable book is full of innovative, user friendly, exciting and unusual activities that promote creative thinking and problem solving skills for 7-9 year olds. The activities in this book are ideal for less intensive teaching times across the school year - at the beginning of term when a teacher wants to get to know the class or just when a teacher wants to do 'something different' to make pupils think 'outside the box'. The challenges in this book make an exciting change from the strictly subject-based lessons and would be ideal for supply teachers or LSAs. All the activities have been tried and tested in the classroom many times by the author who is an experienced teacher.
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Outside the box 9-11
This photocopiable book is full of innovative, user friendly, exciting and unusual activities that promote creative thinking and problem solving skills in upper KS2. The activities in this book are ideal for less intensive teaching times across the school year - at the end of term (particularly after SATs in Year 6), at the beginning of term when a teacher wants to get to know the class or just when a teacher wants to do 'something different' to make pupils think 'outside the box'. The challenges in this book make an exciting change from the strictly subject-based lessons and would be ideal for supply teachers or LSAs. All the activities have been tried and tested in the classroom many times by the author who is an experienced teacher.
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Cool Cats, Calm Kids
Stress isn't just for adults anymore, our children are stressed, too. They need coping tools that are fun, informative and memorable. This book is a practical, humorous guide to relaxation and stress management for children
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Work-Life Balance: A Practical Guide for Teachers
Use this book to re-establish control over your life and to understand the impact of work pressures and issues in your personal life, it will show you how to: audit your work-life balance to find out which areas are really causing you the most tension; establish what you want out of your work and your life outside work, this is important because your aspirations change; allocate time and other resources to ensure that work and life outside work are given the right priorities with reference to your emotional commitment; deal with the expectations of others; cope with specific issues such as the long hours culture, the excessive workload, the professional imperatives of being a member of a caring profession as well as a teacher
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Guerilla Guide to Teaching
This utterly practical guide to the profession of teaching draws on the advice of professional in all areas of education. Sue Cowley provides a vivid insider's guide to the work of being a teacher in all its aspects - planning, teaching, assessment, technology, management, career progression and more. Illustrated throughout with checklists, real-life documents and soundbites from teachers at the chalkface.
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Managing Boys' Behaviour, Tabatha Rayment
A practical guide for teachers and trainees on managing boys' behaviour; part of the behaviour management strand. A practical and engaging guide for teachers on tackling boys' behaviour problems. The author analyses the many factors that can lead to boys' misbehaving in class - including SEN, giftedness, peer pressure etc - and shows how their full potential can be unleashed and exploited by teachers. Packed with innovative strategies and useful suggestions, this book should be a must-read for every teacher.
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Teach with Your Strengths
Focusing on the central insight that all great teachers make the most of their natural talents, "Teach with Your Strengths" shows educators how to avoid the pitfalls that lead to mediocrity and work best with what they have. The book is written by two teachers with a combined 70 years of classroom and consulting experience, and it includes real-life examples of how great teachers use their strengths to solve problems, battle bureaucracy, and reach all of their students.
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Dos and Don'ts of Behaviour Management: A Teacher's Survival Guide
The down-to-earth introduction sets the tone for this upbeat and practical guide for teachers. Containing advice on all aspects of behaviour management, this book covers problems such as managing 'problem' pupils and dealing with a classroom 'riot'. This book will prove essential reading for teachers everywhere
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Getting the Buggers to Think, Sue Cowley
This guide from Sue Cowley provides an entertaining and accessible introduction to teaching thinking for teachers of all levels, covering key areas such as problem solving, developing creativity and lateral thinking.
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There's No Need to Shout! David Wright
This book is written in a clear, easy to follow style and is packed with real case studies drawn from a wide range of educational contexts. Emphasis is on a positive approach and how language, humour, anger, non-verbal communication and the teacher's style of leadership can contribute to a well-managed, calm classroom. A clear guidance is given about how to devise, introduce and teach plans to the pupils so that they can become responsible for their own behaviour. This book is an ideal starting point for training sessions or discussions, enabling staff to share ideas.
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How to Create and Develop a Thinking Classroom
The interest in different thinking skills and learning styles has grown over the last few years. Many books have been written introducing such tools as: brain-based teaching; individual learning styles; multiple intelligence; thinking skills; brain-friendly classrooms; accelerated learning; VAK; How to Create and Develop a Thinking Classroom will show you how to integrate the best of these new teaching methods with the finest traditional classroom practice.
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How to Survive Your First Year in Teaching, Sue Cowley
This is fully updated second edition of boasts new and improved survival tactics for the newly qualified teacher in the classroom, demystifing the teaching profession. Covering every aspect of the profession, this guide provides information, advice and useful tips on all the typical issues facing the new teacher during the school year, such as planning, controlling and teaching classes; coping with the administrative workload; developing positive relationships with students, colleagues and parents; and preparing for mentoring sessions, inspection and promotion.
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Accelerated Learning Pocketbook
By adopting accelerated learning principles you can teach in a way that maximises your students' chances of reaching their potential. This pocketbook offers paractical strategies and techniques that get results.
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Creative Teaching Pocketbook
The extensively illustrated pocketbook is aimed at teachers working in primary and secondary education in England but is also relevant to teachers working in other parts of the UK and overseas. It starts with 'challenging your comfort zones' and the importance of teamwork with students and colleagues. Ideas for creative starters, middles and plenaries include active approaches to lessons and using technology creatively. Questioning techniques are discussed and a section devoted to revision includes strategies to help visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners.
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Primary Teacher's Pocketbook
Extensively illustrated, the Primary Teacher's Pocketbook looks first at the role of the class teacher. It covers the importance of classroom organisation and of creating an emotionally supportive environment, then talks about effective planning and behaviour management. There's a section on being the 'great teacher' and discussion of the gender and achievement issue. The need to manage relationships and to look after yourself are emphasised and there is advice for achieving successful OFSTED inspections.
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The Behaviour Management Pocketbook
In clear, concise language, supported by helpful illustrations, this pocketbook looks at what makes effective teachers. It considers different styles of classroom management, patterns and types of behaviour and offers a range of core principles and key strategies for dealing with everyday scenarios. Teachers will welcome practical examples of real responses to real situations and respond warmly to helpful advice about managing themselves as well as their charges.
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Organising Learning in the Primary School Classroom
A guide for primary school teachers and trainee teachers showing them how to achieve more effective classroom practice. This third edition has been updated to take into account developments in policy and practice. It now includes information about: the revised National Curriculum; developments in dealing with special needs; the literacy and numeracy hours; homework; and the home/school agreement. The author also includes detailed discussions of collaborative group work and peer tutoring. She makes references to more recent work on effective teaching and learning and includes references to Goleman's work on emotional intelligence and the application of this to managing learning and behaviour in the primary school.
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Cracking the Hard Class
This text provides many practical and constructive ideas and strategies which can be implemented to overcome the problems of the difficult class.
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The Art of Peaceful Teaching in the Primary School
This text aims to help primary teachers improve behaviour, preserve motivation and foster cooperation by developing positive relationships with pupils and their parents, creating a calm environment for learning and using non-confrontational communication skills. It outlines an empathetic approach to understanding and managing disruptive behaviour that avoids conflict and demoralization.
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Confident Classroom Leadership
This text offers newly qualified and experienced teachers practical skills to support them in their key role of effectively managing classrooms. Behaviour management approaches, influential language patterns and core skills for building positive relationships are presented in detail. The integrated activities provide sustained professional development, inviting teachers to reflect on what it is they do well and in doing so generate confidence and motivation.
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Creating Winning Classrooms
This text offers insights into the emotional classroom climate necessary for successful and effective learning. The authors present a range of ideas and understandings to support teachers in proactively building and sustaining an emotionally empowering classroom.
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Essential Teaching Skills
This is a guide to successful classroom practice in primary and secondary schools. It covers a wide range of topics, including the nature and development of teaching skills; planning, preparing, presenting and managing lessons; classroom climate and discipline; assessing and evaluating the pupils' and the teacher's own performance; the DfEE's competences for newly qualified teachers; differentiation, streaming and setting; and mentoring and professional development.
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