The LIFE TREATMENT book outlines how to enact a young person’s psychologically informed children’s home. “The book aims to generate a paradigm shift in the way that services that generate emotional recovery become embedded as a social norm.” This is an innovative exploration detailing how psychologically informed interventions can be used to facilitate emotional recovery within young people: those who are most marginalised in society to such an extent they have been rendered invisible. All...

Visual messages are omnipresent in our daily life. They are constantly attempting to persuade us to buy, learn and act. Some are more successful than others in infl uencing our behavior and choices. What is the secret power of these messages? How do they succeed in changing our behavior? This book analyzes advertising beyond the persuasive power of the imagery itself. It explains the psychology behind 33 effective influence techniques in visual persuasion and how to apply them. The techniq...

In this eBook, the reader is taken through a powerful interactive process for creating compelling goals. Damian Hamill identifies and elaborates upon Seven Secrets, the NLP criteria that make the difference between achievable, ecological outcomes and those goals that are destined for failure.The eBook is structured in such a way that allows the reader to shape his or her own outcome as the process unfolds, developing a personal goal that is expressed in a way that maximizes the lik...

What is a New Year resolution?! To me a New Year resolution is a Goal I wish to make motivated by the coming of a New Year and the end of an old. Almost giving me permission to let go of the past and motivate me to look towards the future. Make New Year resolutions-AND KEEP THEM USING NLP! is an extract from Psychobabble: A strait forward plain English guide to the Benefits of NLP; showing the importance of making well formed outcomes and then actually visualising that they are real to boos...

A class can be skilled and motivated to learn without a teacher always having to lead. Engaging learners in this way unpicks intrinsic motivation, the foundation that underpins a productive learning environment and helps to develop independent learning, creativity and improved behaviour management.Based on five years of intensive research through Osiris Educational's award-winning Outstanding Teaching Intervention programme, during which the authors have trained more than 500 teach...

In The Learning Power Approach: Teaching learners to teach themselves Guy Claxton sets out the design principles of a pedagogical formula that aims to strengthen students' learning muscles and develop their independence, initiative, determination, and love of learning. Foreword by Carol S. Dweck. Learning is learnable! Educators can explicitly teach not just content, knowledge, and skills, but also the positive habits of mind that will better prepare students to flourish both in school and...

This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. The five steps involve:making learning multi-sensoryensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learnermatching types of learning to the gender of pupilsusing the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the brainmanaging the classroom environment to make i...

Using features such as case studies, exercises and points for reflection, this is an ideal introduction to managing the supervisory relationship for both trainee and supervisor. This second edition of the book formerly titled Counselling Supervision now covers new and contemporary areas of supervision such as ethical maturity, insights into supervision from neuroscience, the organisational demands from the various contexts in which supervision takes place. It widens the concept of...

DISCOVER:: How to develop nonverbal communication skills to communicate better and make a positive impact in your personal and professional life!When it comes to being successful at life, no matter what the task, those who typically come out on top aren't always the most charismatic, the wealthiest, the strongest or even the smartest.What they always are, is able to understand the body language and nonverbal cues that those around them are giving off at all...

It’s a tall order meeting the needs of gifted children while juggling all the other teaching demands. The books in this series offer practical, insightful solutions. Differentiation Made Practical sets out a framework for weaving differentiation into the classroom programme. It offers topic examples that can be used or adapted to suit particular classroom needs. With step-by-step guidance, Gifted Programming Made Practical provides a confident starting point for preparing...

First Published in 2000. Based on the real-life experiences of teachers and student teachers using action research for the first time, this introductory text demystifies the issues commonly faced by the novice researcher. In an accessible and user-friendly style, the author explains how: the principles of action research can be effectively applied; small scale classroom research can discover important cues to aid learning; to implement action research in different curricular areas, individ...