Product Description

The Learner s Toolkit is for all those teaching 11-16 year olds and is an essential guide to creating truly independent learners, confident and resilient in their ability to learn and learn well. The ability to learn and learn effectively is vital in todays society and will be even more vital in tomorrows. This ability has been at the heart of the recent Personalising Learning movement and this book shows kids how to do it. The book contains 50 lessons to teach 50 competencies. Each has teacher s notes on leading the activity and a CD-ROM in the back of the book has all the student forms and worksheets necessary for the lesson. Activities for the learners 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,prioritise and planning. These are absolutely vital competencies that will help students learn and contribute more effectively in school and will be needed in order to thrive in the increasingly fast paced world of the 21st Century.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85098 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 132 pages

Review
This book supports the new Secondary Curriculum in its efforts to promote Personal Development and links diversity to the Social Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) Framework for secondary schools. It gives teachers 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 learning ... how to cope with and contribute to the world in which they find themselves. --Mick Waters, Director of Curriculum, QCA

Developed and honed in the cut and thrust of real classrooms, it directly supports the SEAL programme by addressing three core areas Emotional Intelligence, Learning to Learn and Values for Life. It s not, though, just a how to book for teachers though that aspect is certainly there. What s especially valuable is the wealth of classroom material that s provided detailed lessons, with resources that children will find interesting and challenging. You ve heard all the rhetoric about emotional intelligence, and the need to create confident learners. Now here s a resource that will help you to do something about it, right now, in your classroom. Gerald Haigh, former Headteacher, writer and consultant for the Times Education Supplement and other educational publications --Gerald Haigh, former Headteacher, writer and consultant for the Times Education Supplement and other educational publications

Jackie Beere 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. Paul Ginnis, Trainer and bestselling author of The Teacher s Toolkit --Paul Ginnis, Trainer and bestselling author of The Teacher s Toolkit

About the Author
Jackie Beere is a consultant trainer and School Improvement partner, having been headteacher at Campion School, Northants until 2006. She spent three years as an Advanced Skills Teacher leading and implementing innovative Teaching and Learning initiatives including KS3 and 4 Learning to Learn and Thinking Skills programmes. In November 2002 Jackie was awarded the OBE for services to education.

Customer Reviews

The Learner's Toolkit
Wow, a fantastic resource to teach emotional intelligence and deliver SEAL. Lots of great lessons already planned with a useful CD rom and also workbooks for kids. Recommended for all teachers..... and parents.