Independent Thinking Press imprint: 17 books
by Ian Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Think for yourself before someone does it for you. The first in a new series by and for people who know how important it is to think for yourself. Written by Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert, this book is an invaluable collection of reflections, ideas and insights on the nature of learning,...
by Ian Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
In The Compleat Thunks Book Ian Gilbert brings together classic Thunks from a number of his books, as well as hundreds of new ones, all designed to make your brain hurt as you think, question, debate and argue your way to a better understanding of how to survive in a world gone dangerously bonkers....
The Working Class
Poverty, education and alternative voices
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
In The Working Class: Poverty, education and alternative voices, Ian Gilbert unites educators from across the UK and further afield to call on all those working in schools to adopt a more enlightened and empathetic approach to supporting children in challenging circumstances. One of the most intractable...
by Ian Gilbert, Andy Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Gilbert Filbert and His Big MAD Box, by Ian Gilbert and Andy Gilbert, is the story of one boy’s desire to make a difference and help his mother find her smile again. It is a book about a boy, a box and a battle for a penguin but, more than that, it is a tale about families, hope and how to make...
Reading for Pleasure
A passport to everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In Reading for Pleasure, Kenny Pieper has gathered a range of tried-and-tested strategies to get kids reading, and enjoying it. We hear too often that kids don’t read any more: Kenny thinks it should be every teacher’s mission to prove this isn’t true. In a squeezed curriculum it can be tempting...
by Martin Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Trivium in Practice brings together a series of case studies written by educators who were inspired by Martin Robinson’s first book, Trivium 21c. Taken together, these case studies reveal how, regardless of setting or sector, the trivium can deliver a truly great education for our children. Great...
The Monkey-Proof Box
Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Written by Jonathan Lear, The Monkey-Proof Box: Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence is a manifesto on how to dismantle the curriculum we’re told to deliver and construct in its place the curriculum we need to deliver.
A group of...
Think Before You Teach
Questions to challenge why and how you want to teach
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
When was the last time you took a moment to pause and really think about your teaching? Think Before You Teach is purposefully full of questions: the openings of discussions to have, first with yourself and then, maybe later, with your colleagues. It doesn't promise all the answers. And it doesn't...
The Lazy Teacher's Handbook - New Edition
How your students learn more when you teach less
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
It’s more than six years since the bestselling Lazy Teacher’s Handbook was first published and Jim Smith’s Lazy Teaching philosophy has developed significantly in that time. This new revised edition details Jim’s latest thinking on how to be the best lazy, but outstanding, teacher you can...
Messy Maths
A playful, outdoor approach for early years
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In Messy Maths: A Playful, Outdoor Approach for Early Years, Juliet Robertson offers a rich resource of ideas that will inspire you to tap into the endless supply of patterns, textures, colours and quantities of the outdoors and deepen children’s understanding of maths through hands-on experience....
Guerrilla Teaching
Revolutionary tacti for teachers on the ground, in real classrooms, working with real children, trying to make a real difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Guerrilla Teaching is a revolution. Not a flag-waving, drum-beating revolution, but an underground revolution, a classroom revolution. It’s not about changing policy or influencing government; it’s about doing what you know to be right, regardless of what you’re told. It’s sound advice for...
You: Rebranded
Be seen, be heard, get noticed
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
This book will inspire and enthuse you and change the way you think about yourself and your career. You: Rebranded delivers a distinct, provocative and abstract perspective in a compelling practical guide, with indispensable creative elements to improve your career prospects, opportunities and networks,...
Uncharted Territories
Adventures in learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Hywel Roberts and Debra Kidd’s Uncharted Territories: Adventures in learning is a book of prompts, provocations and possibilities designed to nourish creativity and generate ideas that will get teachers and pupils excited about learning. In this time of high-stakes testing, growing mental health...
When the Adults Change, Everything Changes
Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
In When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour, Paul Dix upends the debate on behaviour management in schools and offers effective tips and strategies that serve to end the search for change in children and turn the focus back on the adults. You can buy in the best...
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