Botheredness

A funny, engaging, rapturous read that will inspire teachers to reclaim their professional

imagination and reignite the excitement they felt when they entered the teaching

profession. It’s about botheredness. A made-up word that everyone understands.

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 fi nd a scheme of

work in it – some planning ideas, for sure, even a template or two, but there’s no spoonfeeding

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 you bothered.

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

signifi cantly improve your enjoyment of teaching and benefi t your classes enormously.

This book is therefore an exploration of the road less travelled, backed up with Hywel’s

own experiences, refl ections 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.

Features and benefi ts:

• Presents clear strategies around imaginative and effective planning.

• Offers genuine examples of powerful classroom work – from primary, special and

secondary settings – that is research informed and realistic.

• Presents opportunities to think beyond a path laid out by scripted lessons,

downloadable schemes and slavish quick-fi x fads.