Overview

This is an essential resource for supporting the SEAL framework in secondary schools and for all those teaching 11-16 year olds. It contains everything you need to create truly independent learners, confident and resilient in their ability to learn and learn well. The book contains 50 lessons to teach 50 competencies. Each has teacher's notes on leading the lesson and a CD-ROM in the back of the book has all the student forms and worksheets necessary for the lessons. Lessons include: getting to know yourself taking responsibility for your own life persistence and resilience setting goals for life controlling moods caring for your mind and body building brain power asking questions developing willpower pushing yourself out of your comfort zone prioritising and planning Possessing these vital competencies will help students learn better and be able to contribute more effectively in school. It will also enable them to thrive in the increasingly fast-paced world of the 21st century. Click here for the related workbook title The Learner's Toolkit Student Workbook 1. Click here for the related workbook title The Learner's Toolkit Student Workbook 2.

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Author:   Jackie Beere, MBA OBE ,  Ian Gilbert
Publisher:   Crown House Publishing
Imprint:   Crown House Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.797kg
ISBN:  

9781845900700

ISBN 10:   1845900707
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 November 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9781781353172
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Full of practical ideas to help teachers help pupils to learn how to learn. Bill Lucas, Chairman, Talent Foundation I feel thankful to Jackie Beere for bringing together some hope, activities and simple explanations in such a way that I had to read it from cover to cover. What wonderful ways to learn. A great little toolkit! Betty Rudd Education Psychologist If you are a student - (or a parent wanting to really help a student) - grab this book now. It's written by an outstanding teacher and packed full of practical, easy-to-follow advice that will improve anyone's results. It's all about working smarter - not necessarily harder. Colin Rose, Founder of Accelerated Learning Systems Ltd This book definitely supports my view point that academic qualifications are of absolutely no use whatsoever if one leaves school or tertiary education without any basic life skills. The fact that Jackie has looked at how to combine learning of academics and life skills is highly interesting and something I would want to spend time learning more about. I believe the approach she is proposing will have a huge impact on young people's ability to live far better balanced life styles as adults than many adults have done since aeducation' became available to the amasses'. Learning about emotional intelligence and the variety of skills that comes under its umbrella is a breath of fresh air for an educational system that has promoted academic learning to the exclusion of learners humanness. Kathleen Ginn, author of The Secret Learning Code This book turns good intentions into classroom realities. Jackie Beare has produced a powerful and extensive resource for all of us who want learners to become independent, self-aware, socially skilled and responsible. Surely these qualities are the new, broader standards'' that the nation is now realising matter over and above examination results. In tune with the zeitgeist and drawing on established ideas from brain-based learning, accelerated learning, emotional intelligence, citizenship, values education and holistic growth, this book is utterly down-to-earth and packed full of workable strategies. It is written by someone who knows the chalk-face well. Jackie''s wisdom and experience shine through in the breadth, novelty and detail of the impressive library of lesson plans. Cleverly, Jackie has woven together the work of several leading educationalists, combined it with current QCA, National Strategy and Ofsted guidance, and produced a graceful and systematic framework that is translated into enjoyable student-friendly activities complete with in-built thoughts about continuity, progression and assessment. She captures the consensus that is beginning to emerge about the competences and attributes that all learners need now more than ever. In easy-to-teach chunks, The Learner''s Toolkit unfolds this modern agenda by using some of the best professional insights of recent years to deliver our new set of national priorities. Paul Ginnis This is great and really fits in with the learning to learn and thinking skills work that I have developed. I have already adapted the Multiple Intelligences lesson for a half-term worth of tutorial work in years 7 and 8. I will be coming back for more and recommending sections to different departments and year terms. Overall, an excellent book that already has a permanent place on my desk! John Harris, Assistant Headteacher, Cheslyn Hay Sport and Community High School We want children to learn more than knowledge. They need skills and they need to develop personal qualities. The aptitudes and outlooks they develop will help them to acquire knowledge and to become the sort of people that most of us identify as asuccessful'. Confident, able to bounce back, willing to try, thoughtful, reflective, compassionate, helpful, co-operativeathe list goes ona This book supports the new Secondary Curriculum in its efforts to promote Personal Development and links diversity to the Social Emotional Attitudes to learning (SEAL) Framework for secondary schools. It give teachers ideas, starting points, plans and examples to help them use their own ideas to support the progress of young people in the most vital of all areas of learningahow to cope with and contribute to the world in which they find themselves. Mick Waters, Director of Curriculum

Author Information

Jackie Beere MBA OBE worked as a newspaper journalist before starting a career in teaching and school leadership. She was awarded the OBE in 2002 for developing innovative learning programmes. Since 2006 she has been offering training in the latest strategies for learning, developing emotionally intelligent leadership and growth mindsets. She is the author of several bestselling books on teaching, learning and coaching, as well as being a qualified Master Practitioner in NLP. Since establishing Independent Thinking 25 years ago, Ian Gilbert has made a name for himself across the world as a highly original writer, editor, speaker, practitioner and thinker and is someone who the IB World magazine has referred to as one of the world's leading educational visionaries.The author of several books, and the editor of many more, Ian is known by thousands of teachers and young people across the world for his award-winning Thunks books. Thunks grew out of Ian's work with Philosophy for Children (P4C), and are beguiling yet deceptively powerful little philosophical questions that he has created to make children's - as well as their teachers' - brains hurt.Ian's growing collection of bestselling books has a more serious side too, without ever losing sight of his trademark wit and straight-talking style. The Little Book of Bereavement for Schools, born from personal family experience, is finding a home in schools across the world, and The Working Class - a massive collaborative effort he instigated and edited - is making a genuine difference to the lives of young people from some of the poorest backgrounds.A unique writer and editor, there is no other voice like Ian Gilbert's in education today.

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