Sue Cowley

Financial literacy is an essential and powerful life skill. This comprehensive suite of resources (for ages 4 to 14) follows a spiral approach where students build their financial competencies year-on-year. Through real-world contexts and examples, students are equipped with the skills they need to make appropriate financial decisions, both in childhood and beyond. Practice Book features: Comprehensive coverage from the fundamentals of money and budgeting through to managing a business and the economy. Age-appropriate, real-world topics, from pocket money to life beyond school. Builds strong foundations to ensure students are set up for sound financial management and economic wellbeing. Covers the important issue of ethical and sustainable spending. Future-focused units including digital financial management and cryptocurrency. Activities promote a joy of learning through collaboration, communication and higher-order questions. Glossary of terms supports the development of financial vocabulary. Hint boxes and challenge activities, plus advice in the Teacher’s Guide, support differentiation.

Financial literacy is an essential and powerful life skill. This comprehensive suite of resources (for ages 4 to 14) follows a spiral approach where students build their financial competencies year-on-year. Through real-world contexts and examples, students are equipped with the skills they need to make appropriate financial decisions, both in childhood and beyond. Practice Book features: Comprehensive coverage from the fundamentals of money and budgeting through to managing a business and the economy. Age-appropriate, real-world topics, from pocket money to life beyond school. Builds strong foundations to ensure students are set up for sound financial management and economic wellbeing. Covers the important issue of ethical and sustainable spending. Future-focused units including digital financial management and cryptocurrency. Activities promote a joy of learning through collaboration, communication and higher-order questions. Glossary of terms supports the development of financial vocabulary. Hint boxes and challenge activities, plus advice in the Teacher's Guide, support differentiation.

This revised edition explains the 'why' and 'how' of adaptive teaching and offers creative strategies for supporting all learners in early years, schools and further education. This fully updated edition of The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation offers creative strategies for supporting all learners. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use, as well as support them to develop additional strategies. The book takes the reader through the different methods and approaches to adaptive teaching, providing a step-by-step guide to each. It is broken down into five core areas – planning, resources, learners, teaching and assessment – and readers can dip in and out to find practical, time-saving strategies as and when they need them. This fully updated edition features a brand new chapter explaining the 'why' behind adaptive teaching and features additional strategies for supporting learners with SEND, EAL and both lower and higher attainment. Written in Sue's much-loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to feel confident that they are meeting the needs of every learner.

'This outstanding book will help teachers with their understanding on supporting children with their behaviour.’ - Laura Henry-Allain MBE, author, early education specialist and creator of Jojo and Gran GranThis practical guide from bestselling education author Sue Cowley breaks down what self-regulation is, how it develops and and how you can support your learners to build and improve it. The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation explains what self-regulation is and demonstrates how it relates to challenging learner behaviour, focus and attention, resilience and impulse control. Sue Cowley explains how it shows up in the everyday classroom, including how it relates to post-pandemic behavioural challenges, and offers easy-to-implement solutions to support learners of all ages. The book is broken down into two sections – the theory behind self-regulation, and how it develops in the classroom – and readers can dip in and out to find strategies as and when they need them. Written in Sue's much-loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to improve outcomes for every learner.

Sue Cowley’s bestselling behaviour guide is back, updated and better than ever. ‘Day after day, you arrive at your job, only to face students who simply will not behave. You begin to dread coming into work, knowing that you have to face such a difficult day… What can you do? First, read this book.’In this brand new edition, Sue takes a detailed look at positive behaviour management, considers recent advances in understanding self-regulation, and offers specific advice on tackling behavioural challenges in the post-Covid classroom. Getting Your Class to Behave is the positive, practical answer to poor behaviour you’ve been looking for! The latest and greatest edition of the classic Getting the Buggers to Behave, this behaviour management bible has long been a firm favourite with trainees, early career teachers and experienced staff alike. The advice ranges from the basics of behaviour management to how to deal with any tricky class and is applicable whether you are working in the early years, primary, secondary or further education. Sue offers honest, straightforward support with case studies, anecdotes and level-specific examples in every chapter. Sue knows that no matter how much passion and care you have for the job, there’s no match for poor behaviour like tried-and-tested techniques. If your two-year-olds are ignoring you, your Year 11s are distracted, or your tutor group is not-so-quietly chaotic then this is the book for you!

A blended print and digital Early Years programme for children aged 3 to 5. Oxford International Pre-Primary offers a structured and integrated English, maths and science programme with inspiring characters and a wide range of play-based activities that put each child at the heart of the learning experience. The programme has been designed for international pre-primary teachers following the EYFS or Oxford International Curriculum Oxford International Pre-Primary offers a consistent and engaging route through pre-primary English, maths and science based on international best practice, with coverage of a range of curricula and a strong focus on wellbeing to fully prepare children for primary education.

A blended print and digital Early Years programme for children aged 3 to 5. Oxford International Pre-Primary offers a structured and integrated English, maths and science programme with inspiring characters and a wide range of play-based activities that put each child at the heart of the learning experience. The programme has been designed for international pre-primary teachers following the EYFS or Oxford International Curriculum Oxford International Pre-Primary offers a consistent and engaging route through pre-primary English, maths and science based on international best practice, with coverage of a range of curricula and a strong focus on wellbeing to fully prepare children for primary education.

A blended print and digital Early Years programme for children aged 3 to 5. Oxford International Pre-Primary offers a structured and integrated English, maths and science programme with inspiring characters and a wide range of play-based activities that put each child at the heart of the learning experience. The programme has been designed for international pre-primary teachers following the EYFS or Oxford International Curriculum Oxford International Pre-Primary offers a consistent and engaging route through pre-primary English, maths and science based on international best practice, with coverage of a range of curricula and a strong focus on wellbeing to fully prepare children for primary education.

In this book, Sue Cowley looks at the way that behaviour develops during the earliest years of a child's life, exploring how babies and young children learn behaviours and move from co-regulation to self-regulation. She gives practical advice about how to support children in learning all aspects of positive behaviour while they are in your early years setting. She explores the different behaviours that children need to learn and develop in order to be happy and successful learners in their future school careers and beyond. From learning how to share, to learning how to pay attention; from learning how to be responsible, to learning how to be kind. This book covers all these learning behaviours and much, much more. Learning Behaviours is a book full of practical strategies, realistic suggestions and down to earth advice. Sue offers a step by step guide to getting behaviour right, and a range of case studies to help you understand how the approaches work in practice. Sue Cowley is a qualified early years teacher, the author of over 30 books for teachers and an internationally renowned teacher trainer. She has helped to run her local early years setting for the last ten years.

This book is the ultimate guide to differentiation and adaptive teaching in early years, schools and further education settings by Sue Cowley, bestselling author of Getting the Buggers to Behave. It offers over 90 practical and time-saving strategies in every classroom – the revised edition, The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching, will be available from June 2025. The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation demonstrates how teachers already differentiate and adapt their teaching much of the time, in subtle and creative ways. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. The book takes the reader through the different methods and approaches to differentiation and adaptive teaching, providing a step-by-step guide to each. It is broken down into five core areas - planning, resources, learners, teaching and assessment - and readers can dip in and out to find strategies as and when they need them. Written in Sue's much loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to feel confident that they are meeting the needs of every learner.

Is teaching an art, rather than a science? Instead of measuring education and reducing everything to data, what if we looked at it through the lens of the arts? Sue Cowley demonstrates how teachers can become artists, sculptors, actors, dancers, musicians, playwrights, poets, designers and directors, no matter which subject or age group they happen to be teaching. The artful educator paints the air with ideas and weaves magic with words. They aren't afraid of a little risk, or of planning and delivering lessons a little differently. Learn how to be more creative, experimental, playful and imaginative in the methods you use to manage your classroom, and in the myriad ways in which you help your students to learn. Discover what an 'artful attitude' to education looks like, with plenty of practical, real-life ideas for artful teaching and learning. Sue has collected inspiring examples of how colleagues in a range of settings, from early years to secondary and further education, are already using artful approaches in their classrooms. Find out how to engage with your artful side, reinvigorate your approach to teaching and inspire yourself and your children with the pure joy of learning. Getting artful can involve borrowing techniques from the arts to use in teaching, getting learners hands-on with creating artworks themselves and also engaging learners with great existing works of art, cultivating the cultural capital that comes from this in the process. A collection of suggestions designed to inspire you to take creative risks with your learners, this is a book for explorers and rebels. An ideal resource for trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers alike, The Artful Educator is for anyone looking for inventive, innovative approaches to teaching. Contents include: Part One: Artful Attitudes Chapter 1. The Artful Philosophy Chapter 2. Artful Attitudes to Learning Chapter 3. Artful Attitudes to Creativity Chapter 4. Planning to be Artful Part Two: The Artful Educator Chapter 5. The Actor Chapter 6. The Playwright Chapter 7. The Film Director Chapter 8. The Set Designer Chapter 9. The Prop Designer

In this concise guide, Sue Cowley shares a wealth of strategies for helping your students become better writers. She gives practical advice on building the skills, techniques and attitudes needed to be a successful writer. She examines ways to give young writers a sense of purpose, and an authentic audience. She looks at the importance of structures in building confidence for young writers. She examines how you can help your students develop a unique writing style, and looks at the best ways to assess their writing. She also offers a range of ideas for stimulating and inspiring your students, so that they feel highly motivated to write. This mini guide is written in Sue's much-loved honest and straight talking style. Her focus is on practical tips and realistic advice that you can use in your classroom immediately. Read Sue's short guide now and find out how to help your students develop into confident, successful young writers.

In this brand new 'at a glance' guide, best-selling education author Sue Cowley introduces you to the key principles of brilliant voice usage in the classroom. In this book she deals with a diverse range of voice-related topics: how to adapt and develop your tone of voice, how to find the right pitch for the right purpose, how pronunciation works and why it matters so much, how to project your voice in different teaching spaces, how to pace your speaking for maximum impact, and much, much more. In this concise guide to the subject, Sue also explains how your voice works, and how you can protect it from damage - essential guidance for all teachers, both new and experienced. As with all the guides in the 'Alphabet Sevens' series, this book offers practical and realistic strategies that you can use to improve what happens in your classroom - immediately. Sue Cowley is renowned among both new and experienced teachers for the honest and helpful nature of her advice. In this book, she condenses all her expertise and experience into a mini guide that is quick to read and indispensable to own. If you've ever wanted to know more about how verbal communication works, or if you've ever wondered how best to use your voice, then this book is for you. Sue Cowley is the author of over twenty books on teaching and parenting. Her publications have been translated around the world, and include 'Teaching Skills for Dummies', 'How to Survive your First Year in Teaching' and the international best seller, 'Getting the Buggers to Behave'. Sue's books feature as set texts on teacher training courses at many UK universities. Sue is a renowned teacher trainer and motivational speaker, and she has trained thousands of teachers, both in the UK and in Europe.