Positive Teaching, Positive Learning

Positive Teaching, Positive Learningoffers teachers and student teachers a number of practical strategies for developing and improving both the teaching and learning environment in today's classroom.

Rob Barnes is Senior Lecture in Education at the University of East Anglia.

List of figures and tables

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Acknowledgements

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Positive and negative thinking

1

(16)

Pupils as positive self-improvers

3

(2)

Feedback, self-esteem and positive comment

5

(4)

Recognising cycles of failure

9

(2)

How does negative thinking feed on itself?

11

(4)

Positive thinking, switching focus

15

(1)

Key points

15

(2)

Optimism learned in the classroom

17

(19)

Recognising automatic negative responses

19

(6)

Learning to dispute negative responses

25

(4)

Reframing negative perceptions more positively

29

(2)

Learning a practical strategy to enhance this

31

(2)

Teaching pupils to do the same

33

(2)

Key points

35

(1)

Learning lessons from teachers

36

(16)

Reframing instead of negative self-rating

36

(5)

Strategies to turn awareness into action

41

(1)

Tuning in to how pupils feel

42

(3)

Testing for chances to reframe

45

(2)

Criticism and motivation

47

(3)

Key points

50

(2)

Strong expectations and pupil feedback

52

(13)

Promoting realistic classroom expectations

53

(3)

Questioning without relying on volunteers

56

(1)

Expecting feedback from pupil self-assessment

57

(2)

Setting effective short-term deadlines

59

(3)

Effects of intensifying feedback

62

(2)

Key points

64

(1)

Pupil self-assessment and positive outcomes

65

(17)

Feeding back into learning

65

(2)

Why formative assessment is hard, but not impossible

67

(3)

Trying out goals concerned with effort, understanding and skill

70

(4)

Using help-slips for communicating

74

(2)

Some effects of help-slips

76

(1)

Extending and sustaining self-assessments

77

(4)

Key points

81

(1)

Using descriptive praise

82

(20)

Examples and `I' statements

88

(2)

Describing pupils' errors

90

(4)

Formative descriptive praise

94

(3)

What a difference when. . .

97

(2)

Self-praise and teachers

99

(1)

Key points

100

(2)

Nurturing success in children

102

(19)

Positive aims of nurture groups

102

(3)

Starting group sessions

105

(3)

Examples of enabling and challenging language

108

(2)

The Mrs Miggins game

110

(7)

Children's responses to playing the Mrs Miggins game

117

(3)

Key points

120

(1)

Stress reduction for teachers

121

(19)

Recognising and avoiding stress in teaching

123

(3)

Doing well, doing badly and perfectionism

126

(3)

Some stress-busting ideas

129

(9)

Key points

138

(2)

Positive teaching for the future

140

(10)

From problem-sufferers to problem-solvers

142

(5)

Feedback for the future

147

(3)

Bibliography

150

(3)

Index

153

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