Practical Teaching
About the Book Series
Books written by teachers and senior leaders for teachers and senior leaders! Our Practical Teaching series covers a diverse range of topics from supporting well-being of school staff and yourself to change of management. These dynamic and carefully crafted texts serve as valuable companions for teachers to make their job easier and more satisfying, whatever stage they’re at in their career.
What Every Parent Should Know About Education: How knowing the facts can help your child succeed
1st Edition
By Chris Atherton, Stuart Kime
May 05, 2021
What do you really know about how children learn? How helpful are different types of assessment and what do the results mean? Is homework necessary and how you can you encourage your child at home? Will ability groups and setting help your child achieve more? How do you choose the right school to ...
SPIN: Time and task management in teaching
1st Edition
By David Gumbrell
April 09, 2021
39 reflections to turn task completion into time for you Your time is precious – so use it well. With so many pulls on your time, and a changing environment, now more than ever it is vital that your time and task management is both targeted and efficient. If you can achieve this, you can allocate ...
If you can’t reach them you can’t teach them: Building effective learning relationships
1st Edition
By Kevin Hewitson
February 15, 2021
If only there was one simple answer to all your teaching concerns. There is! This book argues that by focusing on building effective learning relationships with your pupils, everything else will fall into place. It can be the basis for positive behaviour management, stress reduction, student ...
All Change!: Best practice for educational transitions
1st Edition
By Rhiannon Packer
January 15, 2021
Examines transitions within education – between year groups, key stages and schools – and how they can be managed and supported for the maximum benefit of the pupil. There is recognition that educational experiences can have a profound impact on both employability and future well-being. Beneath ...
The Head of Year’s Handbook: Driving Student Well-being and Engagement
1st Edition
By Michael Power
June 12, 2020
Is it possible to achieve a good work-life balance as a head of year while still being effective and offering the best pastoral care for your students that you can? This book shows you how. The Head of Year’s Handbook is the companion to one of the most rewarding yet challenging roles within a ...
RISK: Signposting better choices to more adventurous teaching
1st Edition
By David Gumbrell
May 05, 2020
39 reflections to improve your decision making in the classroom and beyond. Go on! You can do it! Are teachers becoming ever more compliant as a profession? By just quietly getting on with things there is a danger of losing that spark that attracted you to your career in the first place. However, ...
In the Zone: Helping children rise to the challenge of learning
1st Edition
By Mike Lansdown
April 06, 2020
In the Zone argues that challenge is an essential element of true learning, without which there can be no progress. It brings together supportive materials to encourage teachers to reflect on their present practice, take sensible risks with their teaching, and understand the importance of enjoyment...
Re-examining Success: Raising pupils’ examination performance at secondary school: systems, techniques, processes and partners
1st Edition
By David Hughes
January 13, 2020
It’s time to look at how to maximise examination success for your pupils and your school in a whole new way. While the examination performance of pupils can define a school’s success, schools have been less than systematic in preparing pupils to give their optimal performance. They focus too ...
Shifting Sands: Contemporary issues in primary schools
1st Edition
By Gary Pykitt
June 28, 2019
Do you feel as if the ground beneath your feet is constantly shifting? It’s not surprising if you do! Teachers today are faced with a range of complex, current issues that impact on teaching and learning as well as the need to understand and address a raft of new initiatives, directives and policy ...
Future-proof Your School: Steering culture, driving school improvement, developing excellence
1st Edition
By David Hughes
April 03, 2019
Wouldn’t it be great if you could equip your school and yourself to face whatever the future might throw at you! Schools face myriad calls on their time and creativity yet have finite internal resources to respond to them. This can result in piecemeal changes, and reactive rather than pro-active ...
LIFT!: Going up if teaching gets you down
1st Edition
By David Gumbrell
April 03, 2019
This could be just the LIFT you need in your teaching career! Teachers are a workforce under pressure and many are leaving the profession due to stress and anxiety. This practical, strategy-led book is suitable for trainees, teachers and school leaders, and can be used to promote both individual ...