‘Closing the Gaps’ is not just about academic achievement, it is more, much more than that as it is about enriching lives, yours and your students, and improving their life chances. ‘Closing the Gaps’ is a collection of tried and tested ideas to help advance the skills, enthusiasm and achievements in academic and non-academic areas for the variety of disadvantaged students, but they also benefit through engaging all students to do even better, to really impact on their life chances. So it really does not matter where you are coming from, what matters is where you are going and how you are going to get there.
Here are some comments from current users of this great set of resources:
Each entry is important on its own, but become more important, and more powerful, when used in combinations. So, the best advocates for buying and using this book comes from those who have bought and are using it, teachers, TAs, trainers, managers, governors, parents, and school advisors. For example:
As a school governor with children at my school, I can highly recommend these resources
Working in further education these resources have transformed my classes
I see gains in ambition, effort and attitude even among the brightest of my pupils
These are focussed and flexible resources for anyone... For everyone
These resources have given my staff a new buzz and sense of purpose... Fantastic
Incredible, even the SLT have noticed a huge change in the classroom climate
As we train new staff, mostly in-house, these have been invaluable
I use these to help in our questioning in recruiting great teachers
Totally transformed my class in just one day... Now they are hungry to push themselves
No doubt about it, using these resources is helping increase my students' confidence
Gives you lots of ideas to build your own success rates in class
The parents also noticed a huge change in their children’s attitudes to school
Particularly good
Chiefly responsible for a rapid and sustained improvement in the school climate
Teaching and learning is so much more rewarding now for everyone involved
We have instilled new habits across the school and an air of confidence
We use these resources throughout the school and our grades keep going up...
Using these for ten minutes three times a week our sixth form students they suddenly came out of their shells and are tackling their subjects with great gusto now
I had a first year high school class with a history of low aspirations and low achievement. According to the school targets, none was expected to get a GCSE but by the end of the first year, year 7, 16 out of 22 scored a level D in a GCSE past paper. These resources really helped us
26 out of 28 of my top set year 9 class scored an A or A* in a GCSE past paper I gave them at the end of year 9. The school target was 12 by the end of year 11, so we were already overachieving thanks to these resources
Probably the best resources we use on a daily basis in our primary school
Totally amazed at the great response from staff and students
Incredible value for money.
Here are some comments from current users of this great set of resources:
Each entry is important on its own, but become more important, and more powerful, when used in combinations. So, the best advocates for buying and using this book comes from those who have bought and are using it, teachers, TAs, trainers, managers, governors, parents, and school advisors. For example:
As a school governor with children at my school, I can highly recommend these resources
Working in further education these resources have transformed my classes
I see gains in ambition, effort and attitude even among the brightest of my pupils
These are focussed and flexible resources for anyone... For everyone
These resources have given my staff a new buzz and sense of purpose... Fantastic
Incredible, even the SLT have noticed a huge change in the classroom climate
As we train new staff, mostly in-house, these have been invaluable
I use these to help in our questioning in recruiting great teachers
Totally transformed my class in just one day... Now they are hungry to push themselves
No doubt about it, using these resources is helping increase my students' confidence
Gives you lots of ideas to build your own success rates in class
The parents also noticed a huge change in their children’s attitudes to school
Particularly good
Chiefly responsible for a rapid and sustained improvement in the school climate
Teaching and learning is so much more rewarding now for everyone involved
We have instilled new habits across the school and an air of confidence
We use these resources throughout the school and our grades keep going up...
Using these for ten minutes three times a week our sixth form students they suddenly came out of their shells and are tackling their subjects with great gusto now
I had a first year high school class with a history of low aspirations and low achievement. According to the school targets, none was expected to get a GCSE but by the end of the first year, year 7, 16 out of 22 scored a level D in a GCSE past paper. These resources really helped us
26 out of 28 of my top set year 9 class scored an A or A* in a GCSE past paper I gave them at the end of year 9. The school target was 12 by the end of year 11, so we were already overachieving thanks to these resources
Probably the best resources we use on a daily basis in our primary school
Totally amazed at the great response from staff and students
Incredible value for money.
