Positive Behaviour Management in Primary Schools: An Essential Guide by Liz Williams

This no-nonsense, easy to read book offers positive and practical advice to assist teachers in promoting positive behaviour in primary schools.

Drawing on a range of theories and approaches, Williams explores how positive behaviour management can effectively support learners with their personal, social and emotional development.

Williams considers a range of factors that can influence positive behaviour, such as environment, mental health, parents and the importance of planning.

This book is a must read for both new and experienced teachers and learning support workers.

Motivating Unwilling Learners in Further Education: The key to improving behaviour by Susan Wallace

This easy to navigate resource provides FE teachers, both new and experienced, with the tools they need to motivate disengaged learners and help them realise their potential.

Drawing on her years of experience as an FE teacher and professor, Wallace identifies the four main barriers than might affect learners: fear, boredom, previous negative experiences and loss of hope. She then goes on to discuss an array of practical strategies and techniques which practitioners can use to re-engage their learners.

And if that’s not enough, there are also tips for practitioners to keep themselves motivated.

Developing the Expertise of Primary and Elementary Classroom Teachers: Professional Learning for a Changing World - Tony Eaude

Written by a former teacher, this book argues that effective classroom practice requires teachers to be attuned to needs of individual learners, using their knowledge and understanding to create of inclusive classroom environments. Eaude considers how primary teachers can successfully expand their expertise and develop a flexible, intuitive approach to planning, assessment and teaching.

Regular, contextualised professional learning that allows teachers to relate (and apply) theory to their own practice is identified as being central to the development of key skills and abilities. The book also outlines the role that professional learning communities can play in helping to enhance practice and improve outcomes.

 Formalise, Prioritise and Mobilise: How School Leaders Secure the Benefits of Professional Learning Networks

How can schools benefit from participating in professional learning networks and how worthwhile are the relationships that they foster between teachers and experts, such as university researchers? Brown and Flood use a single case study (the New Forest Research Learning Network) to demonstrate that such networks can be highly effective in promoting knowledge, sharing, innovation and helping disseminate new ideas and best practice.

The authors argue that school leaders can play an important role in determining the success of such networks. For example, through linking the work of professional networks with school improvement plans, leaders can help to ‘formalise’ the network at a school level and maximise the effectiveness of engagement. Furthermore, undertaking practical activities within schools, related to the work a professional learning network, can generate positive results for both the individual school and other network members, as well as empowering participating teachers.

How to Create Kind Schools: 12 extraordinary projects making schools happier and helping every child fit in – Jenny Hulme

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Kidscape, this unique book brings together 12 well-known charities (and their celebrity supporters) to share a collection of innovative projects which promote inclusion, tolerance and kindness.
Each individual story provides an insight into the creative and innovative projects taking place in schools to support learners – from a gay role model to a peer mentor, a dance workshop to a gardening club, an autism ambassador to a travelling Gypsy theatre group.

This book will provide inspiration for all educators looking for imaginative, yet practical ways to support those learners who don’t always feel like they fit in.

Teaching Happiness and Well-Being in Schools: Learning to Ride Elephants – Ian Morris

This engaging and thought-provoking book offers useful advice and guidance for educators looking to develop and implement a well-being programme in their setting.

Teaching Happiness and Well-being in School is written by Ian Morris, who worked under Anthony Seldon at Wellington College, which is well-known for its well-being and happiness curriculum.

In addition to an introduction on the theory of positive psychology, the book covers teaching approaches to well-being and provides suggested content to inform your own well-being programme.

Measuring Up: What educational testing really tells us – Daniel Koretz

 Easy to read and rich with fascinating examples, this insightful book discusses some of the most fundamental issues that that arise in educational testing.

Providing clear and reasoned advice, Measuring Up aims to demystify educational testing. Using everyday examples, Koretz takes the reader through the principles of testing and test design. The book discusses what tests can do well, as well as what their limits are and looks at how easily tests and scores can be misunderstood.

One of the most readable books on testing that you will encounter.

Assessment for Learning: Putting it into practice - Paul Black, Chris Harrison, Clara Lee, Bethan Marshall and Dylan Wiliam

 Offering valuable insights into assessment for learning, this book provides pragmatic advice and guidance on implementing new and innovative approaches to improve teaching and learning.

Assessment for Learning – Putting it into practice is based on a two-year project involving thirty-six teachers in schools in Medway and Oxfordshire. The research focuses on four key areas of formative assessment: questioning, feedback approaches, peer and self-assessment and the formative use of summative tests.

This book clearly demonstrates the power of assessment for learning and its impact on student learning and achievement.

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