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Looking for new ways to use coaching and mentoring techniques for the benefit of staff and pupils in your school? The Essential Guide to Coaching and Mentoring is the resource you need to help build a powerful leadership team in your school through accessible and practical strategies that really bring the principles of coaching to life for teaching professionals at every level. This second edition of Judith Tolhurst's coaching manual provides a lively introduction to using coaching with both staff and pupils in schools and will become a powerful learning tool to help build the leadership capacity of your staff and help your pupils become confident learners. Steeped in real school settings and using current examples, case studies and coaching conversations, this book can advance your professional development by:equipping you with the tools you need to help the staff you lead or for use with the children you are working with honing your interpersonal skills and bringing elements of coaching everyday conversations encouraging reflection on your personal learning and progress supporting staff and children in your school to grow through the use of coaching and mentoring techniques

Finding it difficult to juggle the many challenges of the teaching profession?Bill Rogers, world-renowned expert in classroom management and teacher stress, focuses on peer-support to show you how to reduce stress levels, achieve a work-life balance and be a successful classroom teacher in The Essential Guide to Managing Teacher Stress. This is your definitive guide to coping with the stresses of the teaching profession and is designed to confront stress-causing factors in positive, supportive and practical ways.Whether its the behaviour of a challenging class, the volume of paperwork or difficult relationships with colleagues causing you stress, Bill Rogers has the advice you need to make a difference.

The Essential Guide to Secondary Teaching is the complete guidebook for the secondary school teacher. Including practical guidance on planning lessons, writing reports, formative assessment, being a good form tutor and using learning support assistants effectively, this book will also provide information on the school as an effective organisation and the teacher's part within it to help you become an excellent classroom practitioner.

Helping you develop the confidence and basic skills needed to understand and support children with special educational needs, this guide will support you in tackling the everyday challenges that working in an inclusive classroom poses. The Essential Guide to Special Educational Needs will provide advice and support in recognising and identifying children with special educational needs, while also providing practical guidance to help you support the needs of individuals in your classroom.I asked myself if this book could enhance the professionalism of teachers in general. It will, irrespective of any specialism This book should help to disperse the fog of ignorance and prejudice and I wish that some of my school teachers had read something like it. Cliff Jones, Critical Professional Learning, Vice Chair of the International Professional Development Association (IPDA)