Bøger af Sue Cowley

Sue Cowley's bestselling behaviour guide. Essential reading for all teachers in all schools.'Show the students the can of dog food, open it up and then eat from it. Offer it round the class to see if anyone else will have a taste...'*This is just one of Sue Cowley's infamous ways of captivating your students, seizing control and getting that unruly class to behave! *(WARNING: Make sure you read the crucial preparation advice before putting this idea into practice!)Now in its fifth edition, Getting the Buggers to Behave remains a firm favourite with trainees, newly qualified teachers and experienced staff alike. The advice ranges from the basics of behaviour management to how to deal with the class from hell and is applicable whether you are working in the early years, primary, secondary or further education, with level-specific examples in every chapter. The book covers preparing for your first meeting with a new group of students, developing your individual teaching style, creating a positive learning environment and working in really challenging schools. Sue is famed for the practical, honest and realistic nature of her advice, and all her ideas include case studies and anecdotes based on her years of experience working as a teacher and the stories and problems she has advised on 'agony aunt' style.In this brand new edition, Sue takes a detailed look at the use of incentives for managing behaviour, considers how to implement a restorative justice approach in order to change children's behaviour and also identifies the ten most common forms of misbehaviour and how to deal with them.So, if your two-year-olds are ignoring you, your Year 11s are unmanageable, your tutor group is running riot or that unmentionable nine-year-old is driving you round the bend then this is the book for you!

This practical guide from bestselling education author Sue Cowley breaks down what self-regulation is, how it develops and and how you can support your learners to build and improve it. The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation explains what self-regulation is and demonstrates how it relates to challenging learner behaviour, focus and attention, resilience and impulse control. Sue Cowley explains how it shows up in the everyday classroom, including how it relates to post-pandemic behavioural challenges, and offers easy-to-implement solutions to support learners of all ages. The book is broken down into two sections - the theory behind self-regulation, and how it develops in the classroom - and readers can dip in and out to find strategies as and when they need them. Written in Sue's much-loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to improve outcomes for every learner.

In this concise guide, Sue Cowley shares a wealth of tips on writing for a living. She gives practical advice on finding the motivation to write and on creating a daily writing routine. She explains how to prepare a book proposal that will win you a book contract, and looks at how to go about self-publishing your work. Sue offers great advice on effective methods for writing, editing and preparing a book for publication, based on her fifteen years as a published author. She shows you how to find different income streams for your writing and how to manage the financial aspects of being a writer. She gives you invaluable tips on reading, understanding and negotiating publishing contracts. She also explores how to market your writing effectively, and build an author brand. If you hope to make a career as a published writer, then this book will help you do just that. This mini guide is written in Sue's much-loved honest and straight talking style. Her focus is on practical tips and realistic advice that will help you turn your love of writing into a viable career. Read Sue's short guide now and find out how you too can write for a living.

Sue Cowley's bestselling behaviour guide is back, updated and better than ever. 'Day after day, you arrive at your job, only to face students who simply will not behave. You begin to dread coming into work, knowing that you have to face such a difficult day. What can you do? First, read this book.'In this brand new edition, Sue takes a detailed look at positive behaviour management, considers recent advances in understanding self-regulation, and offers specific advice on tackling behavioural challenges in the post-Covid classroom. Getting Your Class to Behave is the positive, practical answer to poor behaviour you've been looking for!The latest and greatest edition of the classic Getting the Buggers to Behave, this behaviour management bible has long been a firm favourite with trainees, early career teachers and experienced staff alike. The advice ranges from the basics of behaviour management to how to deal with any tricky class and is applicable whether you are working in the early years, primary, secondary or further education. Sue offers honest, straightforward support with case studies, anecdotes and level-specific examples in every chapter. Sue knows that no matter how much passion and care you have for the job, there's no match for poor behaviour like tried-and-tested techniques. If your two-year-olds are ignoring you, your Year 11s are distracted, or your tutor group is not-so-quietly chaotic then this is the book for you!

In this brand new 'at a glance' guide, best-selling education author Sue Cowley introduces you to the key principles of brilliant voice usage in the classroom. In this book she deals with a diverse range of voice-related topics: how to adapt and develop your tone of voice, how to find the right pitch for the right purpose, how pronunciation works and why it matters so much, how to project your voice in different teaching spaces, how to pace your speaking for maximum impact, and much, much more. In this concise guide to the subject, Sue also explains how your voice works, and how you can protect it from damage - essential guidance for all teachers, both new and experienced. As with all the guides in the 'Alphabet Sevens' series, this book offers practical and realistic strategies that you can use to improve what happens in your classroom - immediately. Sue Cowley is renowned among both new and experienced teachers for the honest and helpful nature of her advice. In this book, she condenses all her expertise and experience into a mini guide that is quick to read and indispensable to own. If you've ever wanted to know more about how verbal communication works, or if you've ever wondered how best to use your voice, then this book is for you. Sue Cowley is the author of over twenty books on teaching and parenting. Her publications have been translated around the world, and include 'Teaching Skills for Dummies', 'How to Survive your First Year in Teaching' and the international best seller, 'Getting the Buggers to Behave'. Sue's books feature as set texts on teacher training courses at many UK universities. Sue is a renowned teacher trainer and motivational speaker, and she has trained thousands of teachers, both in the UK and in Europe.

In this book, Sue Cowley offers teachers a practical and easy to read guide to the subject of group work. She explains a variety of strategies that teachers can use immediately in their classrooms, to help all their students work more effectively in groups. Sue offers advice on using group work for the right reasons and on helping students take on different roles within groups. She examines the rights and responsibilities required for great group work, offers routines and structures for helping group work run smoothly, and shows you how to give your students the richest possible learning experience. This book will help you gain a fresh insight into a key teaching technique. You will learn how to use groups more effectively and, through doing so, enhance learning for all your students. This mini guide is written in Sue's much-loved honest and straight talking style. No theory, no jargon, just down to earth techniques that really work. Whatever the age of students or the subject you teach, your classroom practice will benefit from the strategies and techniques that she reveals here. Read Sue's concise guide now and find out how to get all your students learning well in groups.

In this 'at a glance' guide, Sue Cowley introduces teachers to the key principles of Positive Behaviour Management - her 'Seven C's'. This book offers practical and realistic strategies that you can use to improve behaviour in your classroom and your school - immediately. Whatever age group you teach, her ideas will help and inspire you. Sue Cowley is renowned among both new and experienced teachers for the honest and helpful nature of her advice. Here she condenses all her expertise and experience into a mini guide that is quick to read and indispensable to own. Whether you're brand new to the profession, or you've been teaching for years, this book will give you useful and creative strategies for managing behaviour, and a boost to your classroom management skills. Written by a UK author, this book will also be useful for teachers right around the world. Mini guide: approx. 50 pages (10,000 words)

In this concise guide, Sue Cowley shares a wealth of strategies for helping your students become better writers. She gives practical advice on building the skills, techniques and attitudes needed to be a successful writer. She examines ways to give young writers a sense of purpose, and an authentic audience. She looks at the importance of structures in building confidence for young writers. She examines how you can help your students develop a unique writing style, and looks at the best ways to assess their writing. She also offers a range of ideas for stimulating and inspiring your students, so that they feel highly motivated to write. This mini guide is written in Sue's much-loved honest and straight talking style. Her focus is on practical tips and realistic advice that you can use in your classroom immediately. Read Sue's short guide now and find out how to help your students develop into confident, successful young writers.

In this short book, Sue Cowley gathers together a huge variety of techniques that will all boost reading for pleasure in your school or setting. She explains a range of approaches that teachers and practitioners can use with their children, to help them become highly motivated readers. Sue examines the best ways to support emerging readers and to build reading expertise. She gives ideas for engaging students with different kinds of texts, and for creating an environment that will inspire a love of reading. Sue also examines ways to harness the power of emotions and experiences to get all of your children reading for pleasure. This mini guide is written in Sue's much-loved honest and straight talking style. No theory, no jargon, just down to earth approaches that really work. Whatever age of children you teach, your students will benefit from the strategies and techniques that she reveals here. Read Sue's concise book now and get all of your students to build a lifelong love of reading.

In this concise guide, Sue Cowley shares a wealth of strategies for creating a great early years setting. Whether you work in a nursery, a preschool, a nursery or reception class, or as a childminder, this book will help you improve and develop your practice. In this book Sue gives practical advice about clarifying a vision for your setting, and communicating it to others. She explores ways to give a voice to children, staff and parents. She examines the critical importance of speaking and listening in early learning and development, and gives advice on great verbal and non-verbal communication. In this guide Sue explores ways to use a variety of resources, approaches and techniques for play and learning. She also gives crucial advice to help your setting remain sustainable and viable in the long term. This mini guide is written in Sue's much-loved honest and straight talking style. Her focus is on practical tips and realistic advice that you can use to develop and improve your setting right away. Read Sue's short guide now and find out how to create the best possible early years setting for your children.

This new edition of Sue Cowley's bestselling book serves as a practical, up-to-date guide for early career teachers learning to navigate their first two years in the classroom. This introspective toolkit shows you how to not only survive but thrive during the first two years of your teaching career, and this latest edition provides practical new chapters on how to effectively manage your workload and gives plenty of useful teacher wellbeing tips. It reflects the introduction of the Early Career Framework along with revised material on the National Curriculum and the current Education Inspection Framework. Written in Sue Cowley's honest, accessible and down to earth style, How to Survive your First Year in Teaching is a must have for all new teachers at the start of their career.

Best-selling author and qualified early years teacher Sue Cowley looks at the way that behavior develops during the earliest years of a child's life, exploring how babies and young children learn behaviors and move from co-regulation to self-regulation. Learning Behaviors gives practical advice about how to support children in learning all aspects of positive behavior while they are in your daycare, preschool or kindergarten. Sue explores the different behaviors that children need to learn and develop in order to be happy and successful learners in their future school careers and beyond. From learning how to share to learning how to pay attention; from learning how to be responsible to learning how to be kind - this book covers all these learning behaviors and much more.This is a book full of practical strategies, realistic suggestions and down-to-earth advice. Sue offers a step-by-step guide to getting behavior right, and a range of case studies to help you understand how the approaches work in practice.

In this book, Sue Cowley looks at the way that behaviour develops during the earliest years of a child's life, exploring how babies and young children learn behaviours and move from co-regulation to self-regulation. She gives practical advice about how to support children in learning all aspects of positive behaviour while they are in your early years setting. She explores the different behaviours that children need to learn and develop in order to be happy and successful learners in their future school careers and beyond. From learning how to share, to learning how to pay attention; from learning how to be responsible, to learning how to be kind. This book covers all these learning behaviours and much, much more. Learning Behaviours is a book full of practical strategies, realistic suggestions and down to earth advice. Sue offers a step by step guide to getting behaviour right, and a range of case studies to help you understand how the approaches work in practice. Sue Cowley is a qualified early years teacher, the author of over 30 books for teachers and an internationally renowned teacher trainer. She has helped to run her local early years setting for the last ten years.

This book is the ultimate guide to differentiation and adaptive teaching in early years, schools and further education settings by Sue Cowley, bestselling author of Getting the Buggers to Behave. It offers over 90 practical and time-saving strategies in every classroom.The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation demonstrates how teachers already differentiate and adapt their teaching much of the time, in subtle and creative ways. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. The book takes the reader through the different methods and approaches to differentiation and adaptive teaching, providing a step-by-step guide to each. It is broken down into five core areas - planning, resources, learners, teaching and assessment - and readers can dip in and out to find strategies as and when they need them. Written in Sue's much loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to feel confident that they are meeting the needs of every learner.

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.

Is teaching an art, rather than a science? Instead of measuring education and reducing everything to data, what if we looked at it through the lens of the arts?

Frustrated by a regime of statutory testing, and keen for a midlife adventure, Sue Cowley and her partner decided to step out of the system, and set off on the educational adventure of a lifetime with their children.

A practical guide for teachers, offering a host of ways to help all their students to improve their writing skills. It also offers advice on improving skills and confidence, and getting students excited about writing - not just in literacy or English, but across the curriculum.

Being a "good teacher" is a difficult goal to achieve, being largely dependent on a huge variety of skills outside of the main curriculum. Teaching Skills For Dummies focuses on these 'soft' skills of teaching, from maintaining discipline to creating engaging lesson plans and monitoring performance.

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.

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.

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.