Gil Cleeton

This guide tells you how to - Get to know the students quickly. Motivate the students .Create a rich learning environment. Make the learning relevant to everyday life. Start, focus and finish a lesson. Prepare lessons. Acquire questioning techniques. Sequence the subject matter - atomising the knowledge chains. Get into the alternative frameworks of the learners. Transcend challenging 'me and them' confrontations .Use Learning Strategies. Transfer training across the school curriculum. Understand problem solving techniques. Interpret the external representations learners use. Discover the Cognitive Style of the learner. Reduce stress. Be creative in bureaucratic backdrops. Create the best learning curves. Surmount anticipated, perceived, real, illusory and discovered learning barriers. Address the needs of learners in greatest difficulty, caused by disability and trauma. Speak to large groups. Make teaching and learning an easier, more relaxed, enjoyable and efficient occupation. Draw on the authors' personal chalk-face teaching experience and observation of teachers in action with children and adults of all ages and disabilities in America and Europe. Mix tried and traditional best practice which has survived the test of time when delivered by successful teachers and learners like Socrates, Ghandi, Jesus and Einstein, with innovation from personal experience and the latest research. Revive your teaching as an Art as well as a Science, even when its content is controlled by others. Calm and involve children and adults who have been scared and scarred by discouraging learning experiences.