I provide a range of free resources covering different areas of teaching and learning. These include The Starter Generator, Plenary producer and the AFL Toolkit. My premium resources focus mostly on stretch and challenge, as well as some on growth mindsets and a new set of books exclusively for teaching assistants, giving them all the tools they need to support learners in the classroom.
I provide a range of free resources covering different areas of teaching and learning. These include The Starter Generator, Plenary producer and the AFL Toolkit. My premium resources focus mostly on stretch and challenge, as well as some on growth mindsets and a new set of books exclusively for teaching assistants, giving them all the tools they need to support learners in the classroom.
The GCSE Health & Social Care Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the GCSE Health é Social Care Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the GCSE Business Studies Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the GCSE Business Studies Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
The A Level Government & Politics Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the A Level Government é Politics Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the A Level Psychology Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the A Level Psychology Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the A Level History Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the A Level History Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so easy. With the A Level Health and Social Care Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the A Level Health and Social Care Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the A Level Sociology Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the A Level Sociology Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
The A Level Physics Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.
The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation.
Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks.
The A Level Physics Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The Year 5 Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the Year 5 Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the Year 6 Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the Year 6 Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
The KS3 Citizenship Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the KS3 Citizenship Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The GCSE DT Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the GCSE DT Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The KS3 PSHE Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the KS3 PSHE Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Growth Mindsets is the first book in my Teaching Assistant’s Pocket Guide series.
What’s the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset? How do growth and fixed mindsets influence pupils’ attitudes to learning? And what can you do to help pupils move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset?
In the Teaching Assistant’s Pocket Guide to Growth Mindsets join Mike Gershon, bestselling author and expert educator, as he takes you on a practical, down-to-earth tour of growth mindsets.
Inside you’ll find the answers to all your questions about growth mindsets – as well as a host of practical strategies and techniques you can use to support learners and develop yourself professionally. This easy-to-use, expertly written guide is perfect for the busy teaching assistant who wants to help their pupils and improve their practice.
Chapters Include:
What is a growth mindset?
How can you help learners build a growth mindset?
What sort of language is good for promoting growth mindsets?
How can you help learners to keep going when learning gets tough?
What can you do to help learners see mistakes as a useful part of learning?
Series Introduction:
The ‘Teaching Assistant’s Pocket Guide’ series developed out of Mike’s desire to give teaching assistants across the country a set of practical, useful books they could call on to help them in their work. Having worked with teaching assistants throughout his teaching career and knowing full well the hugely positive impact they can have on learners in a whole variety of different classrooms, he thought it was high time there was a series of books dedicated to supporting them in their working lives.
Each volume in the series focuses on a different aspect of teaching and learning. Each one aims to give teaching assistants a quick, easy way into the topic, along with a wide range of practical strategies and techniques they can use to support, guide and develop the learners with whom they work.
All of the books are designed to help teaching assistants. Each one goes out of its way to make their lives easier, and to help them develop professionally. But, crucially, the ultimate aim of each book is to give teaching assistants the tools they need to better support the learners they spend their time working with.
The whole series is written with the classroom in mind. This is a collection practical of books for what is a practical job.
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the A Level Biology Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the A Level Biology Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
The What If...? Box is a brilliant tool for use in any lesson in Key Stages 2-5. It contains 168 questions, all of which begin 'What if...&' Students can select questions at random by clicking on the coloured dots which are flying out of the What If...? Box. The resource is particularly good for developing critical and creative thinking.
The KS3 Geography Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the KS3 Geography Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The KS3 PSHE Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.
The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation.
Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks.
The KS3 PSHE Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The Challenge Toolkit provides 50 different activities to stretch and extend students' thinking. The activities are generic and can be used across Key Stages and in different subjects. Each activity is explained, often with examples. All can be used as extension within a lesson, or worked up into whole-class activities. The Challenge Toolkit will help you push all students to think more critically and creatively whatever they are studying.
Key Words: Extension, Gifted and Talented, Challenge, Lesson ideas, Planning, Teaching and Learning,
The A Level Chemistry Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.
The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation.
Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks.
The A Level Chemistry Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.