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2nd Edition

Quality Circle Time in the Secondary School, 2ed: A handbook of good practice

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Jenny Mosley, Marilyn Tew

  • Quality Circle Time in the Secondary School, 2ed

194 pages
2013
ISBN: 9780415820264

Jenny Mosley's quality circle time model involves establishing an on-going, timetabled process of circle-meetings for adults and children. As a basis for teaching relationship skills, enhancing self-esteem and building a positive behaviour management and anti-bullying policy, circle time should not only increase confidence and "emotional intelligence" in pupils, but should also contribute towards a positive whole-school ethos.

This classic text provides a rationale, framework and whole-school model for quality circle time specifically for secondary schools and further education colleges. Fully revised and updated, the authors offer over 100 activities and practical strategies to help build teachers' confidence and circle time skills. The book aims to enable teachers to sustain this approach within their SEAL syllabus, tutorial time, subject teaching, or as part of their work with pupils with special educational needs.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Context for Circle Time

  1. Introducing Circle Time in secondary schools
  2. Updates to the new edition
  3. The wider vision: The Whole School Quality Circle Time Approach – an ecostystemic model
  4. Unravelling the Model: Raising self-esteem and morale of staff
  5. Setting up the listening systems
  6. Establishing codes of conduct
  7. Creating and implementing incentives
  8. Creating and implementing sanctions
  9. Setting up a lunchtime policy
  10. The containment stage or how do we cope when nothing works?

Part II The Practice

  1. How to make Circle Time work
  2. The structure of a circle meeting
  3. Case studies and glimpses of Circle Time practice

Part III Activities, games, rounds, drama approaches and quizzes

  1. Circle scripts
  2. Games and activities for Circle Time
  3. Rounds
  4. Drama and role-play
  5. Quizzes

Part IV Theoretical background

  1. Some theoretical background to Circle Time