Features two chapters on managing confrontation and working with parents.

Suitable for those new to the teaching profession, this book offers tried-and-tested strategies and solutions on how to cope. It also includes case studies and shared experiences which can help the reader to survive but also enjoy their first year in teaching. It uses real situations and experiences to tell it like it is.

Being a 'good teacher' is dependent on a huge variety of skills outside of the main curriculum. This book focuses on these 'soft' skills of teaching, from maintaining discipline to creating engaging lesson plans and monitoring performance. It carries information on managing a class and, succeeding beyond the classroom.

Contains information, ideas and approaches to help you develop your students' thinking skills. This book also covers the organizational aspects of teaching thinking in a classroom setting.

Provides strategies for nurturing creative thinking and behaviour throughout teaching and learning. This work includes 50 practical suggestions and activity ideas that can be taken and used straightaway in the classroom. It also includes a quick reference problem related index.

Provides a range of effective strategies for teaching drama. This guide demonstrates how drama can make lessons across the curriculum more interesting and engaging. It is aimed both at the specialist drama teacher and at those who are interested in using drama to help them deliver other areas of the curriculum.

Sue Cowley provides top tips for teaching creativity in her usual approachable, witty and practical style. A great new book from the best selling author. Over 100,000 copies of her book have been sold to date.

Drawing on the advice of professionals from various spheres of education, this guide gives an insider's perspective into the work of being a teacher in its various aspects - planning, teaching, assessment, technology, management, career progression and more. It is illustrated with checklists, real-life documents and sound bites from teachers.

Helps banish problem behavior for good. This title provides a solution to the behavior issues. It includes quick reference problem related index.

Provides strategies for nurturing creative thinking and behaviour throughout teaching and learning. This work includes 50 practical suggestions and activity ideas that can be taken and used straightaway in the classroom. It also includes a quick reference problem related index.

Helps encourage children to think creatively and independently therefore encouraging self-esteem. This title offers ready-to-use ideas and suggestions for building a thinking ethos. It provides guidance and solutions on 50 themes.

Helps you to banish problem behaviour for good. This title provides a solution to behaviour issues for the whole class. It features an easy to use at-a-glance format. It includes quick reference problem related index.

A fully updated second edition of Sue Cowley's wonderfully accessible guide to helping teachers develop writing strategies for children in the classroom. This new edition contains three new chapters: two on writing in primary and secondary schools and a third on developing writing strategies in different subjects.

Helps encourage children to think creatively and independently therefore encouraging self-esteem. This title offers ready-to-use ideas and suggestions for building a thinking ethos. It provides guidance and solutions on 50 themes.

Provides a wide range of ideas and strategies that parents can easily put into practice in the home - now in a great value for money trade edition.

Drawing on her considerable teaching experience at both primary and secondary level, Sue Cowley provides practical and realistic solutions to all kinds of educational problems.

This informative and humorous A to Z of teaching includes a huge array of entries - from practical teaching tips for the classroom to a selection of subversive commentaries on the more ridiculous aspects of the profession.