Total Teaching Raising the Achievement of Vulnerable Groups

Description

Popular author and speaker, Neil Mackay, is passionate about raising the achievement of pupils who struggle to learn and who do not have a formal diagnosis of special needs. By identifying these pupils and prioritising their learning, schools can see great improvement for these students and a boost to the results of the school. Total teaching is a philosophy as well as a set of practical ideas and teaching techniques for teachers in mainstream classes. It means you do not have to wait for extra funding, a formal diagnosis, etc. instead you can pick out and use Neil Mackay’s ideas and boost the inclusive quality of your lessons and in offering good differentiation and quality first teaching you can make a difference for those students that are close to achieving their learning goals.

Neil looks at the following key issues:

How to create the right classroom climate
How to identify and meet specific learning needs
Supporting students with weak working memory
Tracking your quick thinking, slow delivering students
Self-directed learning
Supporting students with low confidence and self-esteem issues
Boosting decoding and analytical skills
Strengthening comprehension activities
Getting reluctant writers to show what they know
This book contains lots of fresh ideas for raising the achievement of kids with ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Aspergers, autism and more.