The Teacher's Toolkit

by Paul Ginnis

Packed with practical classroom strategies this teacher's resource will enable you - meet the needs of different learning styles - stimulate your own creativity - add spice to your teaching - challenge the gifted - and the disruptive! Whatever subject you teach, this comprehensive volume will help you to develop thinking skills in your students; promote citizenship and an understanding of democracy; fine-tune study skills and help students acquire the attitude and skills for true independence. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology and sociology "The Teacher's Toolkit" provides an overview of recent thinking innovations in teaching and presents over fifty learning techniques for all subjects and age groups, with dozens of practical ideas for managing group work, tackling behavioural issues and promoting personal responsibility. It also presents tools for checking your teaching skills - from lesson planning to performance management. "This is one of those rare and precious books which has that uncanny knack of revealing explicitly to you things about teaching which you knew instinctively all along but had never thought about so clearly." - Professor Tim Brighouse, Chief Education Officer, Birmingham Education Authority. "Paul Ginnis has constructed a toolkit for teachers which is the finished article. Well informed, well researched and well written, this is a book which every teacher in the land should get their hands on." - Alistair Smith, author and leading educational trainer.

Genres: Education, Teaching

376 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2001

Reviews

[Bareb]

i'm intherested to this book, please..

[Basirat Atif]

I can understand some of the reviews here when they say that the book is for middle school. Well I agree with them. I am a middle school teacher and this book proved extremely helpful for me. I have tried some of the teaching strategies and they have worked wonders. My students were not only engaged but they also learned what I wanted them to learn without my interruption. I have always dreaded cooperative learning and I am still facing problems with boys but I am not giving up. I have clearly shared my expectations with students and will continue to take their feedback after every lesson. Yes it is time consuming however, if your students are learning then its worth the trouble.

[Beth]

An informative read - 2.5*

I think this book is centred towards a more secondary school educator rather than a primary school educator (which is myself).

The first section is the most-informative which tries to support the teacher with an understanding on the different learning styles (backed up by research, obviously). The second, third and fourth section were teaching ideas/strategies and I didn't find these sections helpful because it was focused too much on secondary school education.

I think this book should be renamed to 'The Secondary Teacher's Toolkit'.

[Jessica Lucy]

A really handy referential companion when lesson planning. As an NQT, I find it invaluable as a mine of creative ideas for lessons, but also for pedagogical and evaluative tools. I'm sure a lot of it is common knowledge but I think it's useful to have this catalogue to help rejig the memory every so often. A vital book for teachers everywhere!

[Donna]

Most I already new. Did not find any inspiration

[PJ]

Sections on how to facilitate effective group-work are excellent.

[Jocelyn]

Fantastic resource for teachers, new and experienced. Substantial ideas on building classroom democracy and eliciting participation in creative ways.