Main description:

One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit, this practical resource focuses on the topic of 'Skills for Learning'. The book offers research-driven, practical strategies, resources and lesson plans to support educators and health professionals. This is a resource book for practitioners looking to have a positive impact on the mental health and wellbeing of the children and young people in their care; both now and in the future. Chapters span key topics including Metacognition, Learning Dimensions, Problem Solving and Cognitive Strategies. A complete toolkit for teachers and counsellors, this book offers:

* Easy to follow and flexible lesson plans that can be adapted and personalised for use in lessons or smaller groups or 1:1 work

* Resources that are linked to the PSHE and Wellbeing curriculum for KS1, KS2 and KS3

* New research, 'Circles for Learning', where the introduction of baby observation into the classroom by a teacher is used to understand and develop self-awareness, skills for learning, relationships, neuroscience and awareness of others

* Sections on the development of key skills in communication, skills for learning, collaboration, empathy and self-confidence

* Learning links, learning objectives and reflection questions.

Offering research-driven, practical strategies and lesson plans, Skills for Effective Learning in School is an essential resource book for educators and health professionals looking to have a positive impact on the mental health and wellbeing of the children in their care; both now and in the future.

Contents:

Metacognition

Thinking about Thinking

Planning our Project

Monitoring our Learning

Reviewing our Work

Learning Dimensions

Curiosity: A wish to know and find out and dig beneath the surface.

Exploring Questions Part 1

Exploring Questions Part 2

Exploring Questions Part 3

The Why Ladder

Risk Friendly Climate

New Words

Changing and Learning: A sense of getting better at learning over time and of growing and changing and adapting as a learner in the whole of life

Milestones

Different Ways of Learning

My Learning Toolkit/What are my Learning Strategies

Look what I Can do Now!

Learning Relationships: Learning with and from others, and also being able to manage without them.

Create an Advert to Celebrate Who You Are.

The Build A Brain Team Challenge

What is Team Work

Skills for Collaboration

Constructive Feedback

Meaning Making: Making connections and seeing that learning matters to me.

Before Baby Arrives

Lets Relax

Thinking Chains

Everything That Had To Happen to Make This.

Strategic Awareness: A sense of myself as someone who learns and changes over time.

What is Learning?

My Learning Strategies

The Emotions of Learning

Performance and My Learning Zone

Resilience: The ability to keep going to develop my own learning, to stick it out and get what I want and need to keep growing and learning.

What is Resilience?

Resilience and Persistence

Be Your Own Life Coach

Stress Management

Self-Talk

The Best Mistake I Ever Made

Creativity: Risk taking, playfulness, imagination and intuition.

My Little Book of Ideas

Think Up A Storm

Ready Steady Make a Game

Good Luck Bad Luck

Problem Solving

Problem Solving Part 1

Problem Solving Part 2

Problem Solving Part 3

What Should I do?

Cognitive Strategies

Memorisation

Mind Maps

Revision