This is an education book that is like no other that has gone before. It
won't tell you what to do minute by minute, lesson by lesson, day by
day. It won't batter you with impenetrable research or tell you what you
must think. You won't even find a scheme of work in it - some planning
ideas, for sure, even a template or two, but there's no spoon-feeding
here. It's just a book that invites you to consider where you are in
your own educational journey. It's a book to get youbothered.
Botheredness is a word Hywel Roberts uses to sum up the kind of
authentic care and adult positioning that is real and deliberate and
gets children and young people on board with learning. It is the holy
grail of teaching and something that will both significantly improve
your enjoyment of teaching and benefit your classes enormously.
This book is therefore an exploration of the road less travelled, backed
up with Hywel's own experiences, reflections and research down the
rabbit hole of contemporary education. It's about the reinstatement of
professional integrity, the teacher as storyteller, and the need for our
professional imaginations to be nurtured and curated. Hywel sets out to
help teachers enhance their understanding of what it means to lead
learning and thinking, to stand beside children as well as in front of
them, whilst developing their knowledge acquisition with compassion,
warmth and optimism.
If you are looking for an education book that will inspire not dictate,
that will entertain, challenge and fire up your imagination in equal
measure, that allows you to think beyond a path laid out by scripted
lessons, downloadable schemes and quick-fix fads, then this is the book
for you.
Providing clear strategies around imaginative and effective planning,
supported by genuine examples of powerful classroom work from primary,
special and secondary settings, this book is an essential guide to
reclaiming your professional warmth, passion, and care - your
botherednesss - in the classroom. Written by a travelling teacher and
film buff who's on a mission to put botheredness into classrooms
everywhere.
Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders, as well
as other education professionals.
