`This book is full of hands-on and immediately practical ideas that can really help improve learning – suitable for a teacher straight out of college or the experienced old hand. The best thing is that you can see these ideas working in almost any classroom and for different age groups. Teachers will love it because they can use these the very next day. If I was still a head at a school I would make sure all my teachers had a copy in their classroom - Andrew Wigford, Director, Teachers International Consultancy

Dragonfly Training was founded in 1999 and has established an excellent reputation internationally for providing inspiring, realistic and practical training courses for teachers. In this, their first book, three of their top trainers provide some of the very best hands-on approaches to teaching. Dragonfly s six key principles are: Effective starters and plenaries;Constant reinforcement as a means of embedding knowledge and provide on-going revision; A variety of ideas; Do first, teach after whenever possible; Encouraging students to create teaching materials themselves; Demonstrating and articulating success by modelling the desired outcomes. This book provides practical strategies that can be used by most teachers, in most subjects, most of the time and offers insights and ideas to engage, inspire and motivate including: How you present yourself in the classroom; Rules, routines and rituals for establishing effective learning patterns; Making your classroom the one every student wants to be in; Using ICT to the maximum