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Packed with down-to-earth examples and genuine case studies, Teaching Towards Solutions offers a refreshing, hopeful and original approach to student behaviour.

It's based on a simple yet profound idea: notice, and ask students to notice, what's happening when they are behaving well ” then recreate the conditions. Sounds easy, but the approach requires you to view problems, pupils and even yourself differently. Fortunately, the book shows you how by providing all the language tools you'll need to turn yourself and your students around. The result? Transformed attitudes, relationships and behaviour.

Linda Metcalf's extensive experience as a family counsellor and teacher shines through. The method she describes with such conviction and detail avoids binding systems and restrictive rules. It liberates teachers to be creative and calls on students to use their self-knowledge to devise personal behaviour strategies. Teaching Towards Solutions provides an uplifting and motivating approach to the most difficult aspect of any teacher's job. Read it!