Books by Geoff Petty

Complete with checklists and self-assessment questionnaires, this book will ensure that you develop your creativity in a practical way. Improve your performance Update your skills Learn new techniques Boost your creativity at work and playThe ability to think and work creatively is a hugely fulfilling aspect of life and an asset in any profession. For some it comes naturally, for others it might seem an unattainable skill. Not so! By working through the techniques and questionnaires offered here, anyone can improve their creative skills. The author provides a very simple and easily-applied six phase model of the creative process: Inspiration - spontaneously generating ideas Clarification - focusing on what you are trying to achieve Distillation - deciding which of your ideas to work on Perspiration - pushing your ideas to completion Incubation - harnessing the power of your subconscious Evaluation - considering how to improve your work, and learn from it

How To Teach Even Better: An Evidence-Based Approach explores what evidence-based teaching is, and most importantly, how teachers can apply the approach to their own practice effectively. Relating relevant research to classroom practice, Petty focuses on the practical strategies, techniques, and methods teachers need to help them teach even better.

Focusing on practical methods, techniques and strategies, Teaching Today has been one of the best-selling teacher training textbooks for the past 20 years. Retaining its practical and user-friendly approach, the fifth edition includes chapters on differentiation, equality, inclusion and working with stake-holders.