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Outside The Box Learning Resources Specialist CPD POST-PRIMARY SCHOOL Resources CATALOGUE 2018-2019 The most popular resources to cater for your teaching needs www.otb.ie OUTSIDE the BOX LEARNING RESOURCES Professional Development - Resources at your Finger tips Contents TOP Teacher Reference 1 PICKS Exam Intelligence & Study Skills 5 Assessments 6 1 25 Behaviour & Anger 8 Teacher Reference Numeracy Management The Magenta Principles Striving To 3 - Mike Hughes Improve: Emotional Issues & SPHE 10 Fractions, Decimals Graphic Intelligence: Possibilities and Percentages Transition 14 for Assessment & Instruction - Mirella Trimboli (Editor) Teacher - Barrie Bennett Gifted & Talented 15 Reference Thinking Skills 16 Literacy 18 EAL: English as a Second 22 Language 41 English & Drama 23 8 37 11 Dyslexia & Behaviour & Autism & Emotional Numeracy 25 Dyscalculia Anger Social Skills Issues & SPHE SESE: Social, Environmental 29 Management Dyslexia in Talkabout for Developing Secondary School Teenagers - Emotional and Scientific Education STOP THINK DO (12-15) - Jenny Cogan & Developing Social Literacy with Social Skills Training Mary Flecker and Communication Physical Education 31 - Lindy Petersen Skills Teenagers (with Phil Lewis) - Alex Kelly - Tina Rae LEARNING SUPPORT ADHD 32 NEW Autism & Social Skills 33 FROM Differentiation & Inclusion 39 OTB Dyslexia & Dyscalculia 40 Dyspraxia 42 10 10 10 Activities to Help Activities to Help Activities to Help Product Index 43 Young People Deal Young People deal Young People deal with Decisions & with Anger with Bullying Order Form 44 Choices - Stephanie George - Stephanie George - Stephanie George OUTSIDE 10 Activities to Help the BOX Young People deal LEARNING RESOURCES with Stress and Anxiety 045 409 322 - Stephanie George @ [email protected] 10 10 11 Activities to Help Activities for The Mentoring www.otb.ie Young People Mentoring Young Toolkit People - Stephanie George Cover images Copyright: Build Character <a href='https://www.123rf.com/profile_stockbroker'>stockbroker / - Stephanie George - Stephanie George 123RF Stock Photo</a>, <a href='https://www.123rf.com/profile_michaeljung'>michaeljung / 123RF Stock Photo</a>, The Resiliency Skills Handbook <a href='https://www.123rf.com/profile_stockbroker'>stockbroker / 11 123RF Stock Photo</a>, - Steve Burns <a href='https://www.123rf.com/profile_stockbroker'>stockbroker / 123RF Stock Photo</a> Page Page 1 TEACHER REFERENCE 1 The Magenta Principles Price: €34.95 Teaching Backwards Price: €17.95 - Engagement, depth and Challenge in the Classroom - Outstanding Teaching The Magenta Principles is an umbrella phrase that refers to a Teaching Backwards is the follow-up to philosophy and an approach to teaching based upon the the bestselling Outstanding Teaching: premise that learning should be both Engaging Learners. It is based on the exciting and engaging. More specifically, the analysis of thousands of hours of primary phrase represents a pedagogy underpinned and secondary lessons, part of Osiris by an unshakeable belief that: Educational’s Outstanding Teaching • Learning is the consequence of thinking Intervention programme over the last • Language is central to thinking seven years. Teaching Backwards is • ST Learning is an active process packed with case studies from primary and secondary BE LER S EL The book is illustrated with examples of teachers, and it’s punctuated with reflective questions that how the Magenta Principles have been used invite teachers to slow down and do some thinking about by teachers, both primary and secondary, with a particular how they currently teach, so that their teaching can have a emphasis on how Whitley Bay High School has used the more powerful impact on learners. Well-informed by principles to help develop classroom practice. research and with a clear action plan of what to do, and © 2014 Author: Mike Hughes what not to do, Teaching Backwards is a guide to ensuring that learners make outstanding progress, lesson by lesson Ages: All CODE: ETS-7880 Pages: 222 and year on year. Foreword by Professor John Hattie © 2014 Authors: Mark Burns & Andy Griffith Magenta Principles Posters from: €5.95 Ages: All CODE: CHP-0929 Pages: 308 - Engagement, depth and Challenge in the Classroom Reinforce The Magenta Principles in your school with these highly engaging Engaging Learners Price: €17.95 Posters. Available in A2 and A3 sizes. - Outstanding Teaching Poster A: The Magenta Principles Based on five years of intensive research Poster B: What are Pupils Required to through Osiris Educational’s award- do to/with information? winning Outstanding Teaching Poster C: Thinking Talking Doing Intervention programme, this book is packed with proven advice and innovative © 2014 tools developed in these successful Author: Mike Hughes - Ages: All outstanding lessons. Written in the same humorous, thought-provoking style with Poster A: Code: MHETSTMPA W which they teach and train, the authors aim to challenge all NE Poster B: Code: MHETSTMPB who teach, from NQTs to seasoned professionals, to reflect Poster C: Code: MHETSTMPC on their day-to-day practice and set an agenda for sustainable teacher and leadership improvement. Size A2: €11.50 each (incl. Vat) © 2012 Authors: Mark Burns & Andy Griffith Size A3: € 5.95 each (incl. Vat) Ages: All CODE: CHP-0797 Pages: 208 School Improvement Series Price: €18.95 each This 5-book series is Leadership Price: €24.95 aimed at building an - Key Competencies for Whole-System Change effective school Develop a creative, productive school culture. environment that Based on their decades-long work in encourages professional leadership, the authors offer seven core development in teachers. leadership competencies for systemic change in It offers tools and advice schools, districts, and state education systems. ST in leadership and Discover targeted strategies to move past BE LER SEL mentoring and how to failed initiatives and overcome initiative create a school that can €85 overload, explore how to cultivate effective Set Price: adapt to changing work practices and gain the know-how to create enjoyable, circumstances. The 5 handbooks are: A Climate of innovative learning environments. Discover why it’s a good Mentoring; Reflective Practice; Managing Change; Building time to be an educational leader; Examine how leaders Culture; The Power of Coaching for School Improvement. outside of education share common practices that have Handbooks may be ordered separately (€18.95 each). brought success; Develop two-way partnerships with Discounts for multiple copy orders apply - please enquire. colleagues in order to cultivate a support network. Authors: Gary O’Mahony, Robin Matthews & Bruce Barnett © 2015 Authors: Lyle Kirtman & Michael Fullan Ages: All Code: HB-6452 Extent: 5 Handbooks Ages: All ISBN: 9781936763528 Pages: 152 www.otb.ie OUTSIDE THE BOX LEARNING RESOURCES [email protected] Page Page 2 TEACHER REFERENCE 2 Working With Difficult Price: €21.95 Reinventing Learning €32.95 & Resistant Staff for the Always-on Generation This text provides busy practitioners with - Strategies and APPS that work practical strategies to counteract negative Teachers and administrators must respond behaviours immediately. Readers will be to the digital bombardment students face to able to proactively build consensus and ensure their success in the 21st century. monitor staff conditions to maximise the Explore the differences in students’ success of new initiatives. It includes helpful neurological processing from previous ST BE scenarios based on real-world experiences generations, investigate the nine critical LER SEL of principals and other school leaders. attributes of digital learners, and discover Readers will be able to identify the different practical strategies for making learning relevant, engaging, kinds of resistant individuals: under-miners, contrarians, on- and fun through digital activities. Benefits: Understand how the-job retirees, resident experts and more - and to the digital generation’s exposure to technology is rewiring confront and manage each type of behaviour so that all staff their brains; Identify learning attributes unique to 21st can thrive in a focused, positive, collaborative environment. century students; Recognise the strengths and weaknesses of © 2011 Authors: John F. Eller & Sheila A. Eller different digital tools; Learn why the digital generation must be engaged and taught differently than previous generations. Ages: All ISBN: 9781742399737 Pages: 140 © 2015 Authors: Ian Jukes, Ryan L. Schaaf & Nicky Mohan Ages: N/A ISBN: 9781936763818 Pages: 184 Really Lazy Teacher’s Handbook Price: €23.95 How Your Students Learn More When You Teach Less The Learning Powered School Price: €29.95 It’s more than six years since the bestselling - Pioneering 21st Century Education Lazy Teacher’s Handbook was first published This book is rooted in the experience of and Jim Smith’s Lazy Teaching philosophy has schools and teachers who have seen the developed significantly in that time. This new promise of Building Learning Power and revised edition details Jim’s latest thinking on have taken up the challenge of realigning how to be the best lazy, but outstanding, their classroom practice, their professional teacher you can be. Every chapter has been development and engagement with parents, revised and some significantly expanded, sometimes quite radically. Many examples particularly those on planning, conducting and reviewing lazy of that trail-blazing experience are lessons. Others have been updated with Jim’s latest