Teachers' Pocketbooks - books on CPD and raising standards of teacher classroom skills

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.

Carol Welch

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Robert Kiyosaki

Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Keri Russell

Mindfulness can be summed up in two words: pay attention. Once you notice what you’re doing, you have the power to change it.

Michelle Burford

If we are facing the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

Buddhist Proverb

Ask your pupils to choose to do one good deed for another pupil this week. Or ask a group of older pupils to plan and put on an assembly with a short play about bullying.

Michele Elliott, author of the Stop Bullying Pocketbook

Use unexpected available time, such as when people are late for appointments, by creating a weekly 'transition time file'. Put into it tasks you can do in short bursts for that week. Carry it with you so you never lose a moment!

Will Thomas, author of the Managing Workload Pocketbook

Poor work-life balance can have short-and-long term effects on our health, relationships and effectiveness. Here’s a simple prescription for thinking about making positive changes: R.E.S.T
R = refuel – eat and drink healthily for maximum performance, E = exercise, S = stop - Take a few minutes of time in total peace and quiet each day and T = time to reflect, to review, energise and plan.

Will Thomas, author of the Managing Workload Pocketbook

When visions are shared and built up within a team they are powerful motivators. When teams all buy into the same dream amazing things can happen.

Brin Best & Will Thomas, authors of the Head of Department's Pocketbook

Scrap 'G&T cohorts'. They make no educational sense and are based on social policy diktat, not social science evidence. Go instead for fluid and dynamic 'Special Interest Groups' (SIGs).

Dr Barry Hymer, author of the Gifted & Talented Pocketbook

Praise is a double-edged sword. Handle it with care.

Dr Barry Hymer, author of the Gifted & Talented Pocketbook

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's important to maintain emotional balance in busy and fast-moving classrooms.

Peter Hook & Andy Vass, authors of the Behaviour Management Pocketbook

Good manners cost nothing and are the social 'glue' that, day-to-day, forms cohesive groups.

Peter Hook & Andy Vass, authors of the Behaviour Management Pocketbook

There is a basic law of human relationships that says, ' If you want to receive something it is better to give it first.' This principle applies at all levels in your interactions with children. If you show respect towards your children you are much more likely to be treated with respect yourself.

Peter Hook & Andy Vass, authors of the Behaviour Management Pocketbook

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Welcome To Teachers' Pocketbooks

Hello! Whether you're a new visitor or one of our regulars, welcome. We hope you'll find our site easy to use and that you'll enjoy browsing. To help you decide which Pocketbooks fit your bill, we've included free extracts from all of them, along with a selection of press reviews and reader reactions. The A-Z listing is a good place to start if you're looking to see what's available. Once you've decided, it's easy to place your order online. Let us know if there's anything else we can do to help.

News and Offers

NEW - 20 Teachers' Pocketbooks on DVD
The Teachers' Top Twenty DVD carries 20 of the most popular Teachers' Pocketbooks in digital format. It's suitable for Macs and PCs but please note that the DVD is a one-user-at-a-time resource in that you need the disc in your disc drive to be able to read the e-books. (If you want to upload digital Pocketbooks to a VLE, see below.)

Collaborative Learning
The Collaborative Learning Pocketbook is currently with our printer. Watch this space for news of publication.

You may have missed...
... the Questioning Technique Pocketbook by Gorden Pope. Published earlier this year, it's a great read and packed full of practical, evidence-based strategies to import into your classroom.

Eating disorders on the rise
According to research led by UCL's Institute of Child Health, cases of eating disorders in men and boys have increased by 27% since 2000 and by 15% in the general population. The Eating Disorders Pocketbook is written for a school context. It offers teachers and other school staff advice about supporting students who have eating disorders.

Four finalists
Congratulations to the authors of four Teachers' Pocketbooks on reaching the finals of the prestigious Education Resources Awards. Well done to Pooky Knightsmith, Eating Disorders Pocketbook (Best Educational Book); Caroline Bentley-Davies, Outstanding Lessons Pocketbook (Best non-IT Secondary Resource); Alice Washbourne, EAL Pocketbook and Afroza Talukdar, Dypraxia/DCD Pocketbook, both shortlisted for best non-ICT SEN resource.

e-Books
All Teachers' Pocketbooks are now available to buy online in e-book format. e-Pocketbooks are priced at just £7.49 + VAT and can be purchased and downloaded to your computer with just a few clicks of your mouse. To view our e-book titles and make your purchase, please click here. Each e-book you buy can be read on up to three separate devices (plus your iPad if you have one) so you can keep copies at work, at home and on your portable computers. Full instructions on how to access your e-Pocketbooks are emailed to you, along with your PayPal payment confirmation, shortly after placing your order. Click here for more details.

Pocketbooks on your VLE
If you are interested in uploading the full Teachers' Pocketbooks library (currently 40 books) to your VLE as a fantastic CPD resource, our multi-user licence - available on an annual subscription - entitles you to do just that. It's proving popular with schools, colleges and training organisations. For further details, please telephone us or email Ros giving an indication of how many users you would like to have access to the digital library.

Greet them with a grin
In 2012 we added six new postcards to our collection. There are now 20 humorous cards to choose from. (Guaranteed to raise a smile from all but the grumpiest teachers!). Click the 'postcards' button on the orange menu bar to the right to view the range and place your order. Postcards are 60p each including VAT and p&p. (minimum order 10 cards).

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