TMC Library: Staff Libguide: Teaching to the top

Checklists

Looking to 'engage, create, share, inspire and improve' not only your students attitudes and ambitions, but also your own aspirations and passions?
Take a look at these ideas and feel inspired.
From Love Learning Ideas and are intended to be shared and used as guidance to support your teaching.

Skills4Study

Skills4Study is aimed at students currently on or aiming for access or university level courses. Having study skills is essential for any student looking to succeed academically and after post education as these skills are transferable for any situation.

Books

Flip Your Classroom by Jonathan Bergmann; Aaron Sams
Students need their teachers present to answer questions or to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment; they don't need their teachers present to listen to a lecture or review content. What they found was that their students demonstrated a deeper understanding of the material than ever before. Learn what a flipped classroom is and why it works, and get the information you need to flip a classroom.
Inside Teaching by John Blanchard
Key research and evidence about what effective teaching means in practice. Having an emphasis throughout on encouraging dialogue with pupils about what they're doing, why they're doing it, and how they can evaluate and develop what they do.
The Lazy Teacher's Handbook by Jim Smith
If you want your students to learn more and you to work less, then this book provides you with all the arguments and evidence you need to become a lazy, but outstanding teacher. Gathered over 10 years in the classroom, this handbook shifts the emphasis away from the teaching and onto the learning, and makes your life so much easier in the process.

eBook

Essential Motivation in the Classroom by Ian Gilbert
Times Educational Supplement Essential Motivation in the Classroom is the definitive one-stop guide for teachers who want to know how to motivate students - and how students learn to motivate themselves. through the theories of teaching, learning and thinking.

Mike Gershon

Mike’s resources have achieved worldwide renown through the website of the Times Educational Supplement.
You can download all the resources here for free.

Challenge Toolkit
The Challenge Toolkit provides 50 different activities to stretch and extend students' thinking. The activities are generic and can be used across different subjects.

How to Develop Growth Mindsets in the Classroom

Find more of Mike's books on the library catalogue.