Dilemma-based learning in the humanities: integrating social, emotional and thinking skills

Use dilemma-based learning techniques in your humanities classroom to teach your students important skills that will help them make wise choices in their lives

Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales

Teaching and learning primary languages can be easy and fun with Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales, whether you are an experienced linguist, have limited language skills or even negative memories of your own language learning

More Thinking Through Geography

The follow up to the highly acclaimed Thinking Through Geography, by David Leat, which gave many teachers strategies, materials and confidence to make the classroom experience more challenging and stimulating.

More Thinking Through Geography, by Adam Nichols and David Kinninment, contains eight strategies to enable teachers to further diversify their repertoire of teaching approaches that really do get children thinking.

Re-presenting Geography

“Winner Gold Award 2005, The Geographical Association”

Liz Taylor explores exciting concepts and new ways of thinking in geography. How do teachers think about teaching their subject; how do they support their students to learn, re-present or re-appraise their geography? This is a challenging and rewarding book for all teachers. The many enquiry sequences demonstrate an effective approach to medium term planning and teaching and have been seen to improve the quality of students' work.

Reading Our Landscapes: Understanding Changing Geographies

“Silver Award Winner 2008, The Geographical Association”
This award-winning illustrated book by Charles Rawding shows how approaches to the study of landscape – in its broadest sense – can reaffirm the relevance of geography to pupils' everyday lives

Teaching Geography in Primary Schools

“Winner Silver Award 2007, The Geographical Association”

Thinking Skills Through Science

The series of science activities by Sue Duncan, Don McNiven and Chris Savory in Thinking Skills Through Science are appropriate for Key Stage 3, but they can be adapted for older or younger pupils across the whole range of abilities.

Thinking Through History

This book is written for teachers who have ambition. It was certainly written by teachers with an ambition - that pupils should be challenged to think, as they enjoy this different approach to History and learn from it.

Thinking Through Mathematics

Teaching mathematics to children can be difficult, especially with the current climate of failing mathematics grades, due to candidates being "required now have to exhibit a degree of familiarity with a much wider but shallower curriculum" (Reform 2006).

Thinking Through Modern Foreign Languages

Thinking Through Modern Foreign Languages is a hugely important new publication which helps teachers and pupils make sense of what goes on in the languages classroom. Teaching thinking is definitely not 'teach, test, tick'; rather it provides strategies that challenge and motivate pupils, that put enjoyment and intellectual stimulation into teaching and learning.

Thinking Through Primary Teaching

Developing children's thinking and understanding of their own learning is a key factor in effective primary teaching. By encouraging your pupils to think about their learning, you will help them to grow into effective learners. So how can you achieve this successfully? Thinking Through Primary Teaching by Steve Higgins with Viv Baumfield can help.

Thinking Through Religious Education

Thinking Through Religious Education is developed and written by practising teachers. Its practical strategies with numerous exemplars enable teachers throughout the secondary school (Y7-Y13) to create exciting, memorable and challenging RE lessons. A teacher resource, it addresses both the teaching and learning of RE and ways in which teachers can promote effective learning. The quote from the pupil above is not an isolated example of such a mature response after being in a teaching thinking classroom.

Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales

Teaching and learning primary languages can be easy and fun with Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales, whether you are an experienced linguist, have limited language skills or even negative memories of your own language learning