The Creative Teaching Pocketbook (Teachers' Pocketbooks) (Teachers' Pocketbooks S.) [Paperback]

Roy Watson-Davis (Author), Phil Hailstone (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2004 | Series: Teachers' Pocketbooks S.

All teachers look to deliver inspiring, innovative and imaginative lessons. What better way to engage students and help them learn more effectively? Roy Watson-Davis draws on a deep well of creativity and on his experience as an AST and mentor to share numerous suggestions for original, inventive approaches to lessons. Use his ideas as starting points for your own brain waves, or import and adapt them for your own classroom. As well as creative starters, 'kernels' and closers, sections of the book are devoted to questioning technique, active learning, technology, revision and teamwork. Roy aims to stimulate and support creative practice by challenging you to move out of your comfort zones: try pegging maths equations across your room washing-line-style, or adopting 'the fruit bowl approach', or how about delivering a lesson in costume? Take the plunge, recharge your batteries and watch your students' enthusiasm increase.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This is a wonderful book. It is a pocket-sized compendium of good ideas, lively practice and fun-packed innovation. Written by an advanced skills teacher, it is not just a pre-packaged collection of someone else's charismatic wacky wheezes; rather it has the sense of coming from someone who knows the realities of the classroom. There are hints on organising the classroom, a fine section on revision techniques, and tip after tip on how to make your teaching relevant and inspiring. I like the washing-line idea for hanging up quotations and equations, the use of pictures to summarise key points, hangman games to guess the leaning objective and getting students to throw paper aeroplanes with their questions written on. Just check your school's health and safety policy first. As with all the best books for teachers, the author focuses on the needs of the learner with hints for visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning styles, and practical tips such as bringing in a big alarm clock to teach examination time-management. Advanced skills teachers aren t always the best people to write books of advice for other teachers; they can demoralise with their expertise. This tiny book is an exception: a wonderful stocking-filler for any teacher near you; an inspiring and funny read; a real gem. --Times Educational Supplement (TES)

About the Author

Author Roy Watson-Davis has twelve years' teaching experience, the last three as an Advanced Skills Teacher. He oversees initial teacher training, and NQT mentoring and is responsible for promoting accelerated learning. Recently he supported a school in special measures, offering in-class strategies across a range of subjects. He has both written and featured in the TES.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Management Pocketbooks (November 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1903776627
• ISBN-13: 978-1903776629
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,339,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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