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Offers practical information for teachers on developing their students' critical thinking skills. This practical book provides strategies for developing these skills.

Outlines teaching concepts and practical strategies to encourage reading both in and out of the classroom. This guide provides suggestions to encourage reading in various age groups, ideas to support reading for pleasure as well as for information gathering, and making the most of schemes offering incentives for children to read.

NLP is very effective in enabling young people to overcome fears, anxieties and limitations. This book provides strategies for teachers to use in the classroom. It includes topics such as: understanding that we only see what we believe is possible; realising that we create our own experience; and using embedded commands to aid homework.

Putting Assessment for Learning into Practice is about the purpose of teaching and assessment as a means to ensuring deep, maximised, engaged and challenging learning. The simple message is good teaching can overcome bad testing and central to assessment for learning is empowering learners through developing learning autonomy. This means involving learners in their own learning through reflection but also as co-constructors and co-negotiators of their learning. This book is for all teachers and school leaders who are committed to ensuring learners are engaged in successful, meaningful and deep learning. Effective strategies based upon good practice are identified which place teachers and learners as central to the process of owning and adapting their teaching and learning.

Ideas in Action: Activities for Task-Based Learning provides EFL teachers with a balance of theoretical insights and engaging tasks that can be used immediately. Activities for Task-Based Learning helps teachers ensure that meaningful communication takes priority over focusing on pre-selected language forms.This book is primarily intended for the general English adult and teenage classroom, but the ideas can be adapted for most teaching situations.Activities for Task-Based Learning: is dedicated to tasks created especially with TBL in mind offers a variety of text reconstruction activities offers strategies for helping capture and exploit emergent language provides suggestions for designing consciousness-raising tasksAdditional features and resources include: photocopiable worksheets accompanying most tasks variation, extension, task repetition suggestions authentic recordings available for free on the DELTA Augmented app language feedback options follow-up suggestions