If you can't reach them you can't teach them : building effective learning relationships / Kevin Hewitson.

A book about putting learning relationships at the heart of your teaching; then everything else will fall into place including positive behaviour management, stress reduction, student engagement and pupil progress.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hewitson, Kevin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: St Albans : Critical Publishing, 2021.
Series:Practical Teaching.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Endorsements
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • Meet the author
  • Introduction
  • A reflection framework
  • Feedback
  • Feedforward
  • In summary
  • References and further reading
  • 1. The challenges teachers face
  • Being a teacher
  • Relationships count
  • Surviving or thriving?
  • Surviving
  • Thriving
  • Balance
  • The dynamics of teaching
  • Exploring feelings
  • Understanding our behaviours
  • How are your Sundays?
  • Monday morning
  • Relationships and feelings
  • Responding to challenges
  • So why might you dread Mondays?
  • On the other hand, 'Mondays are OK'
  • How could things be any better?
  • Time management
  • What next?
  • References and further reading
  • Appendix A Reflection prompts
  • Change prompts
  • Reflection template
  • Appendix B Intervention mic overview: Analysing capacity
  • 2. The learning relationship responsibility
  • The context of relationships
  • The teacher-pupil relationship
  • Relationship co-dependence
  • Those involved in the learning relationship
  • The pupil
  • The teacher
  • The school
  • Government
  • Parents or carers
  • Towards developing a responsibility model
  • The learning relationship
  • Introducing the learning relationship responsibility ratio graph (LRRRG)
  • Analysing LRRRG examples
  • The independent learner
  • Possible interdependent learner outcome
  • A more realistic and planned LRRRG
  • LRRRG explanation
  • External relationship pressures
  • Impact on LRRRG
  • The responsibility of leadership
  • The importance of the learning relationship
  • Learning needs
  • References and further reading
  • 3. Meeting learning needs
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Engagement in learning
  • Engagement and effort
  • Experience, reflection and self-beliefs
  • Motivation to learn
  • Motivation through needs
  • Rewards
  • Compliance
  • Reluctance
  • Peer pressure
  • Past experiences
  • The home
  • The influence of needs
  • Physical and sensory needs
  • The learning zone and learning needs
  • Part 2: Putting needs into a learning context
  • Part 3: Addressing learning needs
  • What next?
  • References and further reading
  • 4. The four learning needs
  • Introduction
  • Our four learning needs within an educational context
  • Belonging
  • The benefits of belonging
  • Power
  • First steps in exploring power
  • Consistency in the school context
  • Power in teaching and learning
  • Asking questions
  • Empowering pupils in your classroom
  • Choice
  • Choice in the classroom
  • Making poor choices
  • Making a choice
  • Offering a choice
  • Broadening our approach to learning through choice
  • The importance of choice in assessing learning
  • Fun
  • The consequences of forgoing fun
  • Why we forego fun
  • 1. A consequence of a target-driven culture
  • 2. The teacher as a learner
  • 3. Linking fun to achievement
  • 4. Discipline and fun
  • Fun and rewards
  • Fun can relieve or prevent stress
  • The benefits of meeting the need for fun