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How do teachers and schools create meaningful learning experiences for students with diverse skills, abilities and cultures? How can teachers authentically assess the learning of their students and build n their strengths and interests in ways that enrich the larger community? How can schools become places where everyone is learning from each other? These are the questions that guide the work of teachers at the well-known Mission Hill School and that are addressed in this book. Teaching in Themes will help schools incorporate a whole-school, theme-based curriculum that engages students across years F-8.

Designed for primary students, this resource incorporates the ideas of blooms taxonomy and multiple intelligences in a practical and fun way. The activities cover themes such as seasons, measuring time and cycles in our world and can be used by teachers to supplement their own classroom ideas. Each interdisciplinary unit of work includes activities that are individually coded for multiple intelligences. The activities have defined learning outcomes, promote creative thinking, draw out students' intellectual capabilities.

This is a delightful activity book for early childhood/primary school students, years P-2. The resource contains 20 superbly illustrated themes based around Bloom's Taxonomy and Multiple Intelligences theory. Each theme is broken into parts, providing a thorough investigation of each topic. Activities are designed to promote creative thinking and to stimulate intellectual capabilities. Themes include community, travel, Aborigines, toys, dinosaurs, holidays, plus many more.

The Essentials for Achieving Rigour series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring and adapting instruction. Readers can put the guides to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in their own classrooms.

This comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the most influential theories and models of reading and literacy, ranging from behaviourism and early information-processing theories to social constructionist and critical theories. Focusing on how these theories connect with different curricular approaches to literacy instruction (preschool to Year 12), the author shows how they both shape and are shaped by everyday literacy practices in classrooms. Readers are invited to explore detailed vignettes that offer a practice-based view of theories as they are brought to life in the classroom. This book devotes substantial attention to linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms and 21st-century technologies.

You may be able to design creative, compelling lessons. But if your classroom is chaotic or its inhabitants are disrespectful, your students will not be learning well. And you will be anywhere from dissatisfied to miserable! Kim Campbell knows the ins and outs of classroom management. She's a real, live, practising middle years teacher with a great gift of humour, a straight-talking approach and a parade of 12- to 15-year-old culturally mixed students to keep her honest. This is her story of what works, what doesn’t and what she’s learned from her students, parents and colleagues. In the manner of a teacher having a chat with another teacher, Kim shares strategies, stories and ideas for how to stop creating behaviour and management problems yourself, and more.

Standards, curricula and assessment have been built and rebuilt to provide excellence and achievement. Now we're faced with the one variable that can turn all this effort into ash: the students. Navigate the hot topic of student engagement with a true expert. The author explores the many factors involved in bringing out the best in students, such as relationships, emotions, environment and expectations. Discover how to create an environment in which students feel confident and safe enough to take risks, make mistakes and immerse themselves in learning experiences. Above all, become empowered to demand an authentic joy for learning in your classroom.

Reader's Theatre is a unique and exciting way of increasing reading fluency and comprehension while engaging students of different reading levels and abilities in concepts from across the curricula. In this story: Students who think Australian history is boring and non-existent get a surprise when their new teacher takes them on a brief tour of the last 60000 years. This book introduces concepts found in the History subject, specifically the Historical Knowledge and Understanding strand in the Australian Curriculum, which extends across all year levels from F-10. No prior historical knowledge is needed. It can serve as a lead-in to instructing students in new concepts in Australian History (particularly Years 4, 5 and 6) or simply as an interesting Reader's Theatre exercise.

This survival guide for substitute teachers presents strategies that can help you get students on your side and make classroom management easier for the whole day and beyond. This handy resource includes tips for teaching and descriptions of students at each year level; full day plans with thematic lessons and reproducible pages for all year levels; lesson plans for different subject areas; and guidelines for dealing with classroom routines such as attendance, recess and dismissing students. Ideal for new teachers, an experienced teacher filling in or a classroom teacher looking for new ways to connect with students, this timely book offers what you need to survive and succeed.

Weaving Well-Being is a research-based mental health program that aims to enhance well-being in children aged 7-12. Each book in this series introduces students to age-appropriate concepts and skills drawn from the field of Positive Psychology, the science of well-being.

CAMS & STAMS Plus Online: Assessment and Reports is an online portal that allows you to produce detailed reports of how your students and class progress using the CAMS & STAMS mathematics strategies program – and in half the time!

It is widely accepted that when home and school work together, children's learning improves. Although this fact is readily acknowledged, communication between school and home is still often one-sided and remains a struggle for many teachers. This remarkable book is designed to help teachers find new ways to attract parents' attention and involve parents in their children's learning. Aimed at the busy teacher, the book offers easy-to-implement ideas for efficient communicating in the digital age, with suggestions for websites and blogs, Facebook and Twitter, online surveys and virtual pinboards, and much more.