Mike Gershon

Barry Hymer

Barry Hymer and Mike Gershon explain how learners with growth mindsets are: more open to challenges and constructively critical feedback; resilient in the face of obstacles and initial failure; convinced that effort makes a difference; able to learn well with and from others; and are likely to rise to the top - and stay there. This title presents practical strategies for developing this kind of learner.

Growth Mindset Pocketbook

How to be an Outstanding Trainee Teacher gives you everything you need to get your teaching career off to a fantastic start. Whether you're training in school, on a PGCE, or through another route, this book gives you the practical and theoretical foundation you need to hit your targets, impress your mentor and, of course, plan and teach superb lessons! Written with the busy trainee in mind, the book helps you to become a critical, reflective practitioner who understands the unique demands of classroom teaching. Topics covered include becoming a teacher, understanding learners, unpicking the lesson, sustaining pace and challenge, communication, creating the environment for learning and much else besides. Every chapter comes with a set of reflective questions and activities designed to help you think critically about your experiences as a trainee teacher. And throughout the book, you will find lots of practical ideas, strategies, hints, tips and tricks you can try out with your students. All in all, How to be an Outstanding Trainee Teacher is the must-have book for those entering the profession - whether training to teach primary or secondary level. Written by expert teacher, trainer and author Mike Gershon, the book will enhance your training, giving you all the tools you need to be outstanding.

The Complete Guide

How to Be an Outstanding Trainee Teacher

How to Use Bloom's Taxonomy in the Classroom: The Complete Guide is your one-stop shop for improving the quality of the lessons, questions, activities and assessments you plan. Never before has there been such a detailed, practical analysis of the taxonomy - of how it works, why it works and how you can use it to raise achievement in your classroo

How to Use Bloom's Taxonomy in the Classroom The Complete Guide

How to use Differentiation in the Classroom: The Complete Guide is the bestselling teacher toolkit giving classroom teachers everything they need to ensure their pupils make superb progress, no matter their starting point or ability level. It provides everything needed to create inclusive, personalised lessons in which everybody is able to learn and achieve. The book is written by a practising teacher and is unashamedly practical. It contains a wide range of activities, strategies and techniques which teachers can use to differentiate their teaching, planning and assessment. Everything in the book is generic, meaning it can be applied across the curriculum. Sections include: Activities; Questioning; Things you can ask students to do or use; Things the teacher can do; and Words and writing. All in all, the book contains 100 differentiation strategies, activities and techniques. Mike Gershon's teaching resources have been viewed and downloaded more than 2.7 million times in over 180 countries and territories. His books expand and develop his electronic materials, such as the Starter Generator, the Plenary Producer and the Assessment for Learning Toolkit. The 'How to...' series developed out of Mike's desire to share great classroom practice with teachers around the world. He wanted to put together a collection of books which would help professionals no matter what age group or subject they were teaching. Each volume focuses on a different element of classroom practice and each is overflowing with brilliant, practical strategies, techniques and activities - all of which are clearly explained and ready-to-use. In most cases, the ideas can be applied immediately, helping teachers not only to teach better but to save time as well. Each one goes out of its way to make teachers' lives easier and their lessons even more engaging, inspiring and successful then they already are. The 'How to...' series is great teaching made easy.

How to Use Differentiation in the Classroom

Summary: This complete guide gives classroom teachers everything they need to embed outstanding questioning in their teaching and raise their achievement across the board. Written by a practicing teacher and unashamedly practical, this book contains a wide range of activities, strategies, techniques and questions which educators of any subject can use to create challenging, engaging learning experiences for students of every grade level. (Publisher).

How to Use Questioning in the Classroom The Complete Guide

How to Use Discussion in the Classroom: The Complete Guide gives classroom teachers everything they need to create brilliant lessons filled with great learning opportunities for all their students. The book is written by a practicing teacher and is unashamedly practical. It contains a wide range of activities, strategies, techniques and questions

How to Use Discussion in the Classroom The Complete Guide

Being taught by a great teacher is one of the great privileges of life. Teach Now! is an exciting new series that opens up the secrets of great teachers and, step-by-step, helps trainees to build the skills and confidence they need to become first-rate classroom practitioners. Written by a highly-skilled practitioner, this practical, classroom-focused guide contains all the support you need to become a great history teacher who inspires and motivates students to critically and creatively explore the past. Combining a grounded, modern rationale for learning and teaching with highly practical training approaches rooted in the realities of the classroom, the book guides you through all the different aspects of history teaching offering clear, straightforward advice on classroom practice, lesson planning and working in schools. Teaching and learning, planning, assessment and behaviour management are all covered in detail, with a host of carefully chosen examples used to demonstrate good practice and show how to facilitate outstanding historical enquiry. There are also chapters on dealing with pressure, excelling in observations, finding the right job and succeeding at interview. Throughout the book, there is a great selection of ready-to-use activities, strategies and techniques which will help put you on the fast track to success in the classroom; and ensure your students are doing the very best learning possible. Covering everything you need to know, this book is your essential guide as you start your exciting and rewarding career as an outstanding history teacher.

Becoming a Great History Teacher

Teach Now! History

How to Teach EAL Students in the Classroom: The Complete Guide gives classroom teachers everything they need to ensure students who are learning English as an Additional Language thrive, achieve, and succeed in their lessons. Written by a practicing teacher and unashamedly practical, How to Teach EAL Students in the Classroom contains a wide range of activities, strategies, techniques and questions which educators can use to create challenging, engaging learning experiences for their students. Everything in the book is generic, meaning it can be applied across the curriculum in every grade level. Sections include: Speaking and Listening; Using Images; What the Teacher Can Do; and Words, Reading and Writing.

How to Teach EAL Students in the Classroom The Complete Guide

This book contains creative and imaginative tried-and-tested starters and plenaries for engaging students in all areas of a history lesson.

Ready-to-use Activities for Teaching History

Secondary Starters and Plenaries: History

The bestselling 'How to use Assessment for Learning in the Classroom: The Complete Guide' gives classroom teachers everything they need to ensure their pupils make superb progress, no matter which subject or age group they are teaching. It is the number one tool for raising achievement in school. The book is written by a practising teacher and is unashamedly practical throughout. It contains a wide range of activities, strategies and techniques which teachers can use to embed assessment for learning in their teaching. Everything in the book is generic, meaning it can be applied across the curriculum. Sections include: Introduction to AfL; How to elicit information about students' learning; Peer-assessment activities; Self-assessment activities; How to give great feedback; Example strengths and targets; and How to make AfL work for you. Mike Gershon's teaching resources have been viewed and downloaded more than 2.7 million times in over 180 countries and territories. His books expand and develop his electronic materials, such as the Starter Generator, the Plenary Producer and the Assessment for Learning Toolkit. The 'How to...' series developed out of Mike's desire to share great classroom practice with teachers around the world. He wanted to put together a collection of books which would help professionals no matter what age group or subject they were teaching. Each volume focuses on a different element of classroom practice and each is overflowing with brilliant, practical strategies, techniques and activities - all of which are clearly explained and ready-to-use. In most cases, the ideas can be applied immediately, helping teachers not only to teach better but to save time as well. Each one goes out of its way to make teachers' lives easier and their lessons even more engaging, inspiring and successful then they already are. The 'How to...' series is great teaching made easy.

How to Use Assessment for Learning in the Classroom

How can we help our students become more resilient, more determined and happier to embrace challenges? What can we do to change how they think about mistakes? And how can we help them appreciate that targeted effort is the number one path to mastery? In this timely and compelling book, best-selling author Mike Gershon presents you with everything

How to Develop Growth Mindsets in the Classroom The Complete Guide

People with fixed mindsets believe that fundamental qualities like intelligence are essentially stable; people with growth mindsets believe that such qualities can be developed and nurtured. Research shows that learners with growth mindsets are more: open to challenges and constructively critical feedback; resilient in the face of obstacles and failure; convinced that effort makes a difference; able to learn well with and from others; likely to succeed. If we can foster growth mindsets in our pupils the results will be transformative. The Growth Mindset Pocketbook is full of classroom strategies for doing just that. Barry Hymer and Mike Gershon look at high-challenge tasks and the value of errors, mistakes and failure; exactly what we mean by effort and how to make that attractive to students; great feedback; the power of language; and 'going seriously meta' – equipping students to think about their own thinking and learn about their own learning. Get the book; get growing!

Every teacher wants to be outstanding. But what does outstanding mean? And how do we stay outstanding if the goalposts move? In this book, bestselling author Mike Gershon presents you with everything you need to know to make outstanding learning happen in your classroom. It breaks down the nature of outstanding teaching so as to expose the underlying principles which hold true across the curriculum. Featuring advice on all the different elements that contribute to outstanding teaching and learning including assessment, differentiation, literacy, leadership and ensuring progress, it covers: Cultivating the habits of outstanding learning The role assessment plays in planning learning, securing progress and helping students to achieve great outcomes. Leadership and your role as a leader The communication that takes place in the classroom Firmly rooted in the day-to-day experiences of being in the classroom, the book clearly explains the why, the how and what to do if things go wrong! Packed full of clear, easy-to-implement strategies and ideas, it is the text you can call upon time and again in order to cultivate and sustain the habits, actions and thoughts of outstanding teaching.

Mike Gershon

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