Following extensive use of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) in the training of teachers on the Fast Track teaching programmes Richard Churches and Roger Terry provide a new perspective on which NLP tools make a difference to teachers with their new book NLP for Teachers: How to be a Highly Effective Teacher.If you want to develop excellence in communication skills or wish to learn how to use powerful tools to support personal and professional goals you will find this book really useful. The book covers a wide range of practical tools that will enhance your interpersonal effectiveness and classroom delivery. Find out how language and your internal processing effects the behaviour of others around you Learn some amazing tools and techniques Learn to communicate in ways you never thought possible both inside and outside the classroom Take your communication skills to the next levelFor everyone working with learners i.e. teachers, subject leaders, phase leaders, senior managers, learning support assistants, Local Authority advisors.''As a practising teacher who is mid way through NLP practitioner training, I am writing to thank you for NLP for Teachers. I read this book with huge enthusiasm because it not only clarified the essential ideas of NLP, but also rendered them in eminently practical terms and contexts for teachers. I have implemented many of the practices from the toolbox sections with great success and have networked much of the thinking with colleagues. As well as this, NLP for Teachers has led me in a number of other fascinating directions, one of which is mentoring. Inspired by NLP for Teachers (and of course my practitioner training) I have now written a school-wide NLP based mentoring programme which seems to have engaged the thinking of teachers and learners alike. The programme has undoubtedly contributed to a change in the school culture where learners are now becoming increasingly solutions focussed.So, a huge thank you to you both. I will certainly look forward to reading more of your work.''Ron Piper, Assistant Headteacher, Ridgeway School, Swindon''Richard and Roger's book is special in that it views teachers as thinking individuals who want the best results for their classroom while offering the how and not the what of teaching. The view of NLP offered in this book is up-to-date both in terms of NLP itself and academic research in areas that are relevant to NLP. What I really liked about NLP for teachers is that it achieves a healthy overall balance. Theory meets practice and it is important because it is the basic concepts of NLP that can truly liberate you and give you control over your own behaviour, yet they are difficult to learn without immediately-practicable techniques. Both newcomers and experienced NLPers are given plenty to think about. The classroom is treated both as a group, with collective needs, and as a set of individuals, with specific needs. NLP is about being proficient in communication and those who will read this book and apply the concepts and techniques presented will be challenged and given the opportunity to be even better communicators than they already are.''-Georgios Diamantopoulos, Doctorate researcher in NLP