The Thinking School
$39.95
Thinking tools are the strategies or scaffolding through which students can access the curriculum. They can be defined as artificial devices that have been developed specifically to improve children’s thinking by:
focusing their attention (visually) on an issue that needs to be resolved
offering immediate feedback through seeing their ideas on paper
seeing the big picture
making new connections
analysing complex situations
explaining relationships between concepts
developing new thinking skills
producing a larger number of possible solutions
making informed choices
constructing new knowledge
creating new ideas and products.
In this exciting resource, author Ralph Pirozzo offers an introduction to teachers to the world of thinking tools, covering a range of different tools for different tasks, and directing teachers as to how to choose the most appropriate tool for each. Transform your school into a thinking school with this helpful guide.
Improving Thinking in the Classroom
$39.95
Improving thinking in the classroom does not have to be difficult. This book, Improving Thinking in the Classroom, provides teachers with useful and practical strategies that will enable them to provide all their children with the most engaging, exciting and challenging learning environment.
Teachers can achieve this most noble goal by:
building depth and rigour using Bloom’s taxonomy
engaging students with multiple intelligences
transferring the knowledge to the real world.
Engagement, depth and rigour are essential characteristics of a curriculum that will motivate and interest students. This means challenging, meaningful and relevant activities that make the classroom an active centre of learning.
From Feedback to Advice
$44.95
Most feedback books teach teachers how to give better feedback. This book teaches students how to seek better advice.
You invest hours crafting thoughtful feedback. Students glance at the grade and move on. They skim comments, fix surface details, or don’t engage at all — not because your feedback lacks quality, but because they haven’t learned how to identify what they need or seek the right help.
This isn’t a feedback problem. It’s a capability problem.
From Feedback to Advice shows how to develop students who actively direct their own improvement. Through six progressive stages, you’ll move students from passive recipients of comments to confident seekers of targeted advice. Students who can:
Shift from “Is this good?” to “Here’s what I’ve tried and here’s where I need help.”
Identify learning gaps and present evidence of their attempts.
Request precise advice and act on it.
This isn’t a book about writing better comments. It’s about building advice-seeking expertise, the capability that makes your guidance matter.
When students learn to seek the advice they need, they multiply the impact of your teaching, transforming feedback from a one-way exchange into a genuine partnership for growth.
Developing Executive Functioning bundle
$84.95
$89.90
Grab Dr Rosalyn Muir's two books in this bundle.
Developing Executive Functioning in the Early Years (published November 2024)Developing Executive Functioning in the Primary Years (publishing November 2025)
Please note:We already have stock of Developing Executive Functioning in the Early Years so this book will ship once ordered and we will send Developing Executive Functioning in the Primary Years early November, pre-publication. Let us know in the notes section of checkout if you want us to hold your order and ship them together in November.
Damien Barry bundle
$66.90
$69.90
Grab both of Dr Damien Barry's books.
The Teaching Game (published May 2023).The Leadership Game (published May 2024).
Dr Selena Fisk bundle
$174.95
$179.85
Get Selena Fisk's 3 data books in this bundle.
Using and Analysing Data in Australian Schools - 2nd edition by Selena FiskLeading Data-Informed Change in Schools by Selena FiskData-Informed Learners: Engaging Students in Their Data Story by Selena Fisk
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