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Truro School Library: TEACHING & LEARNING

The library at Truro School is for the benefit of all members of the school community. We aim to offer a purposeful learning environment with a range of facilities and resources to support the academic and recreational needs of all pupils and staff.

All about autism

Practical and relevant to the mainstream classroom. Punchy and accessible handbook for busy teaching staff. Covers the wide spectrum of autistic children Explains autism and offers up-to-date positive approaches.

Visible Learning: the Sequel

Building upon the success of the original, this highly anticipated sequel expands Hattie's model of teaching and learning based on evidence of impact and is essential reading for anyone involved in the field of education either as a researcher, teacher, student, school leader, teacher trainer, or policy maker.

The Neurodiverse Classroom

With specific learning difficulties more prevalent than ever in mainstream schools, this is the essential guide for teachers wishing to create inclusive and successful learning environments in diverse classrooms.

Focusing on promoting acceptance and self-esteem of each child rather than on labelling their difficulties, it shows how to make good use of simple resources and meet a wide range of need.

The Teacher's Guide to Resolving School Bullying

Drawing on the author's cutting-edge research this practical book helps teachers better understand the causes of bullying, gives them confidence to resolve nuanced cases, and provides them with the tools to develop pupil-led anti-bullying campaigns.

Diverse Educators

Structured around the Equality Act and written collaboratively, Diverse Educators: A Manifesto aims to capture the collective voice of the teaching community and to showcase the diverse lived experiences of educators.

When the Adults Change, Everything Changes

In When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour, Paul Dix upends the debate on behaviour management in schools and offers effective tips and strategies that serve to end the search for change in children and turn the focus back on the adults. You can buy in the best behaviour tracking software, introduce 24/7 detentions or scream 'NO EXCUSES' as often as you want - but ultimately the solution lies with the behaviour of the adults.

Responsive Teaching

This essential guide helps teachers refine their approach to fundamental challenges in the classroom.

Based on research from cognitive science and formative assessment, it ensures teachers can offer all students the support and challenge they need and can do so sustainably.

Visible Learning: Feedback

Combining research excellence, theory and vast teaching expertise, this book covers the principles and practicalities of feedback, including: the variability of feedback, the importance of surface, deep and transfer contexts, student to teacher feedback, peer to peer feedback, the power of within lesson feedback and manageable post-lesson feedback.

The Elephant in the Staffroom

The Elephant in the Staffroom is the survival guide that every busy teacher needs for practical advice on teacher wellbeing.

Written in an informal, conversational style, the book is divided into 40 bite-size chunks, covering a range of essential topics from understanding and avoiding burnout, to successful working patterns, and even surviving the school holidays!

The Psychology of Great Teaching

This is your essential teaching companion that offers a broad understanding of modern psychology and how ideas from psychological theory and research can be relevant to any classroom. Explore robust, current ideas and contemporary findings from different psychological disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, personality theory and systems theory, and learn new insights to enhance your teaching. Deepen your knowledge of how students and young people develop as individuals and how a greater understanding of human behaviour can make you a more effective teacher.

The Teacher's Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance

This essential guide for working with PDA pupils outlines effective and practical ways that teachers and school staff can support these pupils, by endorsing a child-led approach to learning and assessment. Beginning with an introduction to PDA and how it can affect the education experience, it is then followed by thoughtful, useful strategies school staff can implement to build a collaborative relationship with pupils and help them to thrive in the school environment.

The Complete Handbook of Coaching

This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of coaching, exploring a range of coaching theories and approaches, genres and settings and professional issues. It supports trainees and professionals to identify and develop a personal style of coaching. Each chapter includes discussion questions to facilitate reflection on the topic, further reading suggestions and case studies that help trainees make the crucial link between theory and practice.

Experiencing English literature

What does it mean to experience a work of literature? What role does response play in the creation of literary meaning? And what matters – really matters – in the teaching of English Literature? In this book, Andrew Atherton offers a powerful and timely account of the vital role that student response plays in the English Literature classroom.

Times Educational Supplement

Teaching staff have unlimited access to TES magazine subscriber content as part of the school’s new subscription (March 2024).
You are able to read breaking news; in-depth analysis; world-leading teaching and learning guides and research reviews; and investigations. You can also be able to watch our videos and listen to our podcasts. 
All you need to do is create your profile at tes.com using your school email address (if you already have an account with a personal email address, you will still need to create a new profile with your school email to access TES magazine). ​
Once that is done, you can visit our homepage and start reading our exclusive news, analysis, teaching and learning guides and research reviews (which you can navigate to via the headings at the top of the page).