A practical handbook on motivation, recognition and belonging for classroom teachers, heads of year and senior leaders, grounded in established motivational psychology and the current Ofsted framework.

Starts from an uncomfortable finding: most school reward systems recognise the pupils who were already doing well, and can reduce the motivation they were meant to build. This book is about recognition that changes behaviour rather than decorating it.

WHAT’S INSIDE
• 59 pages, professionally typeset for print
• The reward paradox, and why points systems plateau
• A coverage audit — who in your school actually gets recognised, and who never does
• When praise backfires: the tricky scenarios, scripted
• Warm and demanding, and the two ways schools get it wrong
• A teacher’s belonging page
• Recognition coverage audit, ten-minute culture walk and termly review templates
• A 45-minute INSET workshop

Covers micro-recognition, values-aligned praise, recognition ladders, pupil agency, and the staff culture that has to hold it all up.

Written for the school where the same six names get the certificates every term.