Teacher's Toolkit

by Paul Ginnis

Overview

This best-selling teacher's resource now reformatted and edited is packed with practical classroom strategies that will enable teachers to add spice to their teaching while meeting the different learning styles of their students.Drawing on insights from neuroscience, psychology, and sociology, The Teacher's Toolkit provides forty varied learning activities as well as practical ideas for managing group work, tackling disruptive behavior, and promoting personal responsibility.The audit tools in the final section enable the teacher to check everything including lesson plans; teacher's impact on students' self-esteem; and delivery of independent learning skills. The Teacher's Toolkit will help develop students' thinking skills, fine-tune their study skills, promote citizenship, and help students acquire the attitude and skills for true independence. For Grades K-12There should be a copy of The Teacher's Toolkit in every curriculum area of the school. It puts learning where it should be-at the top of the school agenda.- Clive Carroll, Education Development Unit, St. Martin's College

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904424581
Publisher:	Crown House Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	05/28/2005
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Paul was one of the UK's oldest-established independent trainers, having started down that path in 1992. He worked in over 4500 primary, secondary and special schools in the UK and in 70 or so international schools in the Middle East, Far East, North and South America, The Caribbean and Europe. He also supported the introduction of a new Junior Cycle curriculum in Ireland. All his ideas were forged at the chalkface but they were inspired by some of the world's leading educational thinkers.First and foremost, Paul was a practitioner (having started his teaching career in 1979), not a researcher or academic. He sought to model the way in which current teaching imperatives and modern learning insights could be translated into workable classroom strategies, and to achieve that with a bit of fun along the way.Even in an aggressive educational world driven by political, inspection and PISA priorities, he believed that it was possible to proceed with integrity, courage and wisdom. To do so, teachers needed a few truths about the learning process to guide their creative planning and a good number of proven strategies to set them on their way. From his books and workshops Paul wanted people to take away teaching ideas that would turn passive pupils into active students and consequently result in deep learning, modern skills, essential dispositions, good progress and great results.Of his many publications, The Teacher's Toolkit is the most well-known, having been reprinted 15 times and translated into Arabic, Indonesian, Hungarian, Slovenian and Spanish. It is one of the UK's bestselling books for teachers and is required reading on most teacher training courses.Paul died suddenly on 30th January 2015. He had three grown-up children and was a Stoke City FC season ticket holder and a self-confessed vinyl junkie. He was also a driver and roadie for The Zombies on their 2009 'Odessey and Oracle' national tour - making his adolescent rock n' roll dream come true! He lived near Stoke-on Trent with his wife Sharon, two cats, one dog and a jukebox.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	viii
	Foreword	ix
	Preface	x
Section 1	Design Tools	1
	Why?	2
	Similarities among Learners	10
	Differences among Learners	31
	Other Learning Agendas	46
	The Recipe	52
Section 2	Tools for Teaching and Learning	59
	Introduction	60
	Assembly	62
	Back to Back	64
	Beat the Teacher	66
	Bingo	68
	Calling Cards	70
	Center of the Universe	72
	Conversion	74
	Corporate Identity	76
	Dicey Business	78
	Discussion Carousel	80
	Distillation	82
	Dominoes	84
	Double Take	86
	Dreadlines	88
	Guess Who	90
	Hierarchies	92
	Hot Seating	95
	Inspiration	98
	Mantle of the Expert	100
	Masterminds	102
	Memory Board	104
	Now You See It...	106
	On Tour	108
	One to One	110
	Pairs to Fours	112
	Pass the Buck	114
	Prediction	116
	Question Generator	119
	Quick on the Draw	121
	Randomizer	124
	Ranking	126
	Silent Sentences	128
	Sorting Circles	130
	Spotlight	133
	Stepping Stones	135
	Thumbometer	137
	Value Continuum	139
	Verbal Football	142
	Verbal Tennis	144
	Wheel of Fortune	146
Section 3	Tools for Managing Group Work, Behavior, and Personal Responsibility	149
	Introduction	150
	Murder Mystery	152
	Framed	156
	Observer Server	159
	Learning Listening	161
	Sabotage	164
	Games	166
	Maintenance	169
	Groups Galore	172
	Step On It	175
	Help! How Do We Hold a Group Discussion?	178
	Help! How Do We Make Decisions?	180
	Proportional Representation	182
	Triple Check	184
	Smooth Starts	186
	Tricks of the Trade	187
Section 4	Audit Tools	189
	Introduction	190
	Check Your Lesson Plans	191
	Check Your Students' Learning Styles	191
	Check Your Impact on Students' Self-Esteem	205
	Check Your Delivery of Independent Learning Skills	213
	Recommended Resources	225
	Organizations, Networks, and Projects	225
	Learning Theory and Research with Lots of Links	225
	Learning-Style Instruments	226
	Bibliography	229
	Index	241