The Bridge Project - Chapter 7
Through the Pivotal Blog, we are publishing in full "Views from the Bridge" a book about the Bridge Project in Chesterfield.We are publishing this book in chapters. Every week a new chapter will be...
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The Bridge Project - Chapter 8
Through the Pivotal Blog, we are publishing in full "Views from the Bridge" a book about the Bridge Project in Chesterfield.We are publishing this book in chapters. Every week a new chapter will be...
View ArticleThe Bridge Project - Chapter 9
Through the Pivotal Blog, we are publishing in full "Views from the Bridge" a book about the Bridge Project in Chesterfield.We are publishing this book in chapters. Every week a new chapter will be...
View ArticleThe Bridge Project - Chapter 10
Through the Pivotal Blog, we are publishing in full "Views from the Bridge" a book about the Bridge Project in Chesterfield.We are publishing this book in chapters. Every week a new chapter will be...
View ArticleThe Bridge Project - Chapter 11
Through the Pivotal Blog, we are publishing in full "Views from the Bridge" a book about the Bridge Project in Chesterfield.We are publishing this book in chapters. Every week a new chapter will be...
View ArticleThe Bridge Project - Chapter 12
Through the Pivotal Blog, we are publishing in full "Views from the Bridge" a book about the Bridge Project in Chesterfield.We are publishing this book in chapters. Every week a new chapter will be...
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The Personal Touch
First published in Teach Primary Magazine in July 2010.Classroom assessment that is personalised and differentiated is not an impossible dream! Yet with so many students passing through hands of the...
View ArticleCut down on ‘call-outs’
First published Times Educational Supplement (TESPro Magazine) February 2012There are certainly a small number of teachers in every school who rack up a disproportionate amount of ‘call outs'. Think...
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Louder than words!
First published in Teach Nursery Magazine in March 2012.Often words wash over even the most beautifully behaved children. Non verbal techniques engage the children, demand their full attention and give...
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Be quick about it
First published in Teach Primary Magazine in May 2012.The inspector or observer who grades your lesson will make a decision about the standard of your teaching in the opening minutes. Of course, no...
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Putting the TA in teamwork
First published Times Educational Supplement (TESPro Magazine) May 2012Danielle sits ignored at the back of the classroom. She ought to have been better prepared but there was no time. She ought to...
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Changing labels
First published in Teach Nursery Magazine in September 2012.‘We tell ourselves rubbish, believe it and spend a lifetime trying to cope with it'. Albert EllisObserving the children in a nursery class I...
View Article30 Day Change
The ‘whoosh' of a great training day is a rare and valuable thing. If you don't catch it and use it, then it will sparkle only for a short time. Classroom practice can be transformed overnight....
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The Mario Kart Moment
First published in Teach Primary Magazine in May 2012.Computer games, like fast food, smart phones, TV, Facebook and Twitter are designed to be addictive. So it goes. Lets not waste time arguing about...
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Follow-up is the way to break through
First published Times Educational Supplement (TESPro Magazine) June 2012When Robert kicked off every knew about it. The cycle was utterly predictable. Polite requests from teachers to remove an item of...
View ArticleOut of control
First published in Teach Nursery Magazine in November 2012Senario:When Daniel throws a tantrum the lid properly comes off. Deep sulking and shaking is interspersed with screaming, hitting and a barrage...
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What Would You Do?
First published in Teach Primary Magazine in August 2012.In the staffroom, conversations about behaviour are rarely helpful. You know how it goes, you gently raise the issue to glean some expertiseWhat...
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Burn out and out of love with the job
First published Times Educational Supplement (TESPro Magazine) July 2012I understand the motivation of politician when they tell teachers they should work for as many hours as necessary and that a "no...
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Help children learn to take responsibility for their actions and you will lay...
First published in Teach Nursery Magazine.Help children learn to take responsibility for their actions and you will lay the foundations for future good behaviour, says Paul Dix...Leave children caught...
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We’re all in this together
First published in Teach Primary Magazine in January 2012.The control model of behaviour management leaves the child deferring responsibility for his behaviour to the teacher: ‘Miss said I was good...
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