This book is an accessible guide to helping boost your child’s language, curiosity, and problem-solving abilities outside of the classroom. Packed full of learning activities for children and teaching advice for parents, this book is specifically designed to support parents engaging your children in thought-provoking conversations and problem-solving strategies.Divided into two parts, the authors first guide readers through "Learning Pit" theory, then present a range of lesson sugg...

What are the goals of Early Years education? A lot of people ask this question and receive answers ranging from keeping children safe; introducing them to the values of society; encouraging a love of language; giving them experience of socialising, harmonising and behaving appropriately. This book shares the best strategies to help children grow into even more curious, resilient, happy, articulate and thoughtful learners.Challenging Early Learning takes James Nottingham's tried and...

‘I recommend this book to anyone wishing to help children learn. In it you will find some lovely ideas for improving the way we encourage, support and praise all young people.’Professor Carol Dweck, author of Mindset, Stanford University, USA‘James has developed a rare skill for blending arresting anecdotes, hard-edged research and practical advice into a truly compelling narrative.’Professor Barry Hymer, author of the Gifted and Talented Pocket Book,

Challenging Learning offers advice and techniques for helping children of all ages develop into confident, thoughtful and independent learners. Based around the acronym ASK (Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge), this essential guide explores attitudes, skills and knowledge to learning. It considers the strategies that can help teachers to challenge their pupils to think more skilfully and logically and how to develop these techniques more effectively.Drawing on the latest rese...

Change Your Life with Emotional Intelligence takes Daniel Goleman's revolutionary psychological theory and transforms it into practical self-help for you to boost emotional awareness in any part of your life. It introduces you to the principles of EI, explaining why the qualities of assertiveness, perception, motivation etc really matter if you want to live a fulfilled and successful life. The book takes an applied approach, encouraging you first to understand your own emotional identity, ...

Discover the practical skills for helping others.Whether you are considering becoming a counsellor, have to provide some form of counselling as part of your job, or are simply interested in communicating well, Counselling Skills For Dummies provides the perfect introduction to the practical basics of counselling. Starting with a thorough guide to the qualities, knowledge and skills needed to become a ‘listening helper’, the book goes on to provide a framework for a counsel...

In this eBook, the reader is taken through a powerful interactive process for creating compelling goals. Damian Hamill identifies and elaborates upon Seven Secrets, the NLP criteria that make the difference between achievable, ecological outcomes and those goals that are destined for failure.The eBook is structured in such a way that allows the reader to shape his or her own outcome as the process unfolds, developing a personal goal that is expressed in a way that maximizes the lik...

Why market research does not work.Available in paperback for the first time, this new updated and revised second edition of Consumer.ology: The Truth About Consumers and the Psychology of Shopping contains a new preface and epilogue, in which Philip Graves reveals the myriad tricks and psychological games high street shops play on consumers; the ways in which we are manipulated into buying things we don't want; the ways in which we deceive ourselves; and t...

What is a New Year resolution?! To me a New Year resolution is a Goal I wish to make motivated by the coming of a New Year and the end of an old. Almost giving me permission to let go of the past and motivate me to look towards the future. Make New Year resolutions-AND KEEP THEM USING NLP! is an extract from Psychobabble: A strait forward plain English guide to the Benefits of NLP; showing the importance of making well formed outcomes and then actually visualising that they are real to boos...

In this eBook, Certified NLP Trainers David Kerr and Damian Hamill take the reader through a fascinating and thoughtful introduction to the field of Neuro-linguistic Programming.Rather than merely focusing on techniques and superficial content, David and Damian empower the reader to harvest the full fruits of NLP by exploring the fundamental structure and underpinning concepts that make it the flexible and effective approach to life and work that it is.They help the reader ...

Winner of the NAGC Celebrating Gifts and Talents 2007 "Most Important Book" Gold AwardGifted Children is a lively and informative exploration of the mystery of the gifted mind and the social and emotional needs of gifted children and their families.The authors give an insight into what is 'normal' for gifted children, acknowledge the difficulties they experience, and offer pointers for parents on how to support them at home, in the interaction with siblings and other family...

According to the media and some concerned parents, boys are having greater trouble than ever with schooling. this book takes the refreshing counter position that boys are generally fine, and not inherently toxic creatures that need 'fixing'. What does need fixing, however, are some of the parenting and teaching practices and environments boys are placed in for schooling and social development. In the vein of Celia Lashlie's Good Man Project, which became the basis for her international bes...