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Beginning Teachers' Companion

Written for those starting their teaching careers, the Beginning Teachers' Companion Fifth Edition explores the vital areas for successful induction into the classroom and the profession.

Answering the fundamental question.
Why are your students going to be better off because you are their teacher?

Good teacher or good teaching.
Understand the importance of teaching practice in making a real difference.

Creating the quality learning environment.
What should you be considering when you enter your first classroom?

Your teaching and learning methodology.
Understand the importance of developing your personal pedagogy. Introducing a thinking skill framework.

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Thinkers Keys Digital

Welcome to an exciting framework for the teaching of thinking.

Thinkers Keys are twenty powerful strategies (placed in two general groups) for generating quality thinking in all learning situations.

1. Critical/Organisational (the purple ones). To get organised, these are the Keys for you. They encourage you to do your research, to evaluate your information, and to place any necessary tasks into action.

2. Creative (the orange ones). When you want to generate new ideas or develop some different perspectives on an issue, then these Keys will help you. They challenge you to think very differently.

Most learning experiences will require a combination of both.
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Thinkers Keys Cards

This is the 3rd generation of the Thinkers Keys series. Based on a powerful pack of 20 cards for teachers and students to organise and stimulate thinking in all learning experiences.

Highly practical, generating intellectual quality in young people, with a focus on critical and creative thinking processes.

A pack of 20 A5 Thinkers Keys cards with a large icon on the front of each; and a clear description of the Thinkers Key on the back.

A 16-page booklet with a series of suggestions for implementation, plus some organisational frameworks and a Thinksheet for use by students in their daily learning experiences.
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Picture Magic

Picture Magic book and CD uses engaging photographs across the curriculum to spark and deepen children's thinking. It outlines thinking frameworks including Tony Ryan’s Thinkers Keys, Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences.

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