Transform the teaching of spelling to Year 6 students!

In this series of books, Jane Considine reveals her structured, rigorous system to teach spelling. Built on the fundamentals of teaching spelling with strong phonic foundations, The Spelling Book has around 150 pages of activities and guidance that will transform your teaching of spelling, ensuring your pupils become better spellers for life.

By breaking down the learning of spelling with repetitive contextual learning, this book can help teachers fix their work life balance and reduce the need for spelling tests or spelling homework. The activities within the book meet all National Curriculum statutory requirements and objectives while building on them. Suitable for SEND and EAL pupils and for low-attaining/all-attaining levels.

The Spelling Book is structured into weekly activities and investigations, functioning as a framework for lesson planning and resources for children and teachers to refer to. These books for Years 2 – 6 are referential and build on learning from earlier years to prepare pupils for later National Curriculum learning requirements.

Jane Considine is an experienced educational practitioner and author of revolutionary learning resources with over 25 years in literacy consultancy. Jane launched The Training Space in 2004, a place for supporting teachers, parents and pupils in maximising learning for EYFS, KS1 and KS2 students.

“The Spelling Book not only provides an implementable and comprehensive overview of spelling for Primary school senior leaders, but excitingly also provides a system of highly-engaging resources for classroom teachers to use and their pupils to love!” – Andrew Jennings, The Vocabulary Ninja

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A thought-provoking and fearless exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and do better by all our students.

An Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of The Year
‘Essential reading‘ – The Guardian
‘Sharp and witty with moments of startling candour‘ – The i
‘Revealing and beautifully written‘ – David Harewood
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Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye’s is a journey of exploration – from the outside looking in.

In the groundbreaking I Heard What You Said, he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system. As a black, male teacher – an English teacher who has had to teach problematic texts – his very existence is a provocation to the status quo, giving him a unique perspective on the UK’s classrooms.

Told through a series of eye-opening encounters based on the often challenging and sometimes outrageous things people have said to him or about him – from ‘Can you rap?‘ and ‘Have you been in prison?‘ to ‘Stephen who?‘ – Boakye reflects with passion and wit on what he has found out about the presumptions, silences and distortions that underpin the experience of black students and teachers.
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‘Hugely important‘ – Baroness Lawrence
‘Deeply compelling, intellectually rigorous and essential‘ – Nels Abbey
‘Makes a powerful case‘ – Rt Hon Lady Hale

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Fed up with students who talk over you and ignore instructions?

Drained and worn out by disruption, disobedience, and defiance?

Does the thought of facing some groups fill you with utter dread?

Drawing on 20+ years experience in special education and mainstream settings, teacher-trainer Rob Plevin explains a proven, step-by-step plan for successfully managing the most challenging individuals and groups in today’s toughest classrooms. Packed with powerful, fast-acting techniques – including a novel routine to get any class quiet in 15 seconds or less – this book helps teachers across all age groups connect and succeed with hard-to-reach, reluctant learners.

You’ll discover:

• The simple six-step plan to minimise & deal with classroom behaviour problems
• How to gain trust & respect from tough, hard-to-reach students
• How to put an end to power struggles & confrontation
• How to have students follow your instructions… with no need to repeat yourself
• The crucial importance of consistency (and how to achieve it)
• Quick and easy ways to raise engagement and enjoyment in your lessons
• The ‘Clean Slate’ – a step by step method you can use to ‘start over’ with that particularly difficult group of students who won’t do anything you say.

Take Control of the Noisy Class provides hundreds of practical ideas and interventions to end your classroom management struggles & create a thoroughly enjoyable lesson climate for all concerned.

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This exciting new book from the bestselling authors of The Science of Learning takes complex ideas around teaching and learning and makes them easy to understand and apply through beautifully illustrated graphics. Each concept is covered over a double-page spread, with a full-page graphic on one page and supportive text on the other. This unique combination of accessible images and clear explanations helps teachers navigate the key principles and understand how to best implement them in the classroom.

Distilling key findings and ideas for great evidence-based teaching from a broad range of contemporary studies, the book covers the research findings, ideas and applications from the most important and fundamental areas of teaching and learning including:

• Retrieval Practice

• Spacing

• Interleaving

• Cognitive Load Theory

• Rosenshine’s Principles

• Feedback

• Resilience

• Metacognition

Written to support, inspire and inform teaching staff and those involved in leadership and CPD, Teaching & Learning Illuminated will transform readers’ understanding of teaching and learning research.

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