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Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy Pat Guy (Eton College, UK)

Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy By Pat Guy (Eton College, UK)

Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy by Pat Guy (Eton College, UK)


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Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy Summary

Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy: A handbook for teachers by Pat Guy (Eton College, UK)

Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy is a practical resource for teachers and shows how pupils can achieve and maintain excellent mental health. It focuses on identifying the main causes of unhappiness, stress and anxiety, by examining the difficulties a school system can inadvertently create for pupils. By developing resilience, empathic behaviour, social skills and self respect during childhood, pupils will better equipped to withstand the pressures of modern society and growing up.

With practical tip sheets and advice Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy suggests ways to create a more positive educational experience for all pupils. Pat Guy shows how schools can increase all pupils' well-being, enabling them to deal with the challenging situations they face as they move through education and into the adult world.

Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy Reviews

Pat Guy is an experienced teacher and his new book provides practical ideas to support schools in auditing their school systems to ensure that they are not contributing to pupils' unhappiness, stress and anxiety [...] The publication is full of helpful and practical ideas to make school safe and life enhancing for all pupils and concludes with tips and advice sheets that would be usefully shared in any staff meeting to develop and share expectations on developing positive learning environments that work for all. - Special Needs Information Press (SNIP)

About Pat Guy (Eton College, UK)

Pat Guy is currently teaching in Eton College's Learning Centre, UK, and has previously published Transforming Reading Skills in the Secondary School with Routledge.

Table of Contents

Section 1.The need for an inclusive education system that embraces and builds on pupil difference.

Chapter 1. Pupils' experience of education: aspects of the current education system that can demoralise pupils:-

  1. The development of unhelpful mindsets.
  2. Extroverts v introverts.
  3. A failure to recognise and provide for pupils with alternative approaches to learning.
  4. A failure to recognise the effect of chronological age on pupil performance.
  5. The over use of testing.

Chapter 2. The links between attitude and intelligence.

Section 2. Developing pupils' self confidence and emotional well being within the mainstream context.

Chapter 3. Metacognition.

Chapter 4. Social skills.

Chapter 5. Self confidence.

Chapter 6. Creativity.

Section 3. Learning rather than teaching: three possible solutions.

Solution 1. Increased involvement in sport.

Solution 2. Providing adequate opportunities for play.

Solution 3. Promoting reading for pleasure.

Section 4. Ten Top Tips. Advice sheets.

  1. Active learning techniques.
  2. The brain and learning.
  3. Pupil advice sheet. A healthy life style.
  4. Developing pupils' listening and attention skills.
  5. Pupil advice sheet. How to motivate yourself.
  6. Organisation. How to help pupils to organise themselves.
  7. Resilience. Developing pupils' resilience.
  8. Specific learning difficulties or differences.
  9. Questionnaire. How I learn.
  10. Questionnaire. Study skills.

Additional information

GOR010778593
9781138672512
1138672513
Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy: A handbook for teachers by Pat Guy (Eton College, UK)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2016-07-18
168
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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