Geoff Hannan and Angela Hannan are leading providers of strategy-centred training for improving teaching and learning
Latest Book and PDF
About the Author
Geoff Hannan has spent more than 45 years helping schools transform learning outcomes for children. Through his international teacher training and consultancy work, he has specialised in closing attainment gaps and developing practical classroom strategies that make a measurable difference.
As a consultant and adviser, Geoff has worked with governments in the UK and overseas, and has supported well over a thousand schools and many thousands of teachers, teaching assistants, parents and children. He is the author of numerous books on education and is widely recognised for his engaging, practical and inspirational approach to professional development.
This book represents the culmination of decades of experience, distilled into practical guidance for Teaching Assistants who want to become the trusted adult every autistic child deserves.
About This Book
The Trusted Adult is based on Geoff Hannan’s highly regarded training programme for Teaching Assistants supporting autistic children in mainstream classrooms.
Rather than focusing on theory alone, it provides practical strategies, classroom techniques and reflective activities that Teaching Assistants can apply immediately. Drawing on research, neuroscience, educational psychology and decades of classroom experience, Geoff explains how trusted relationships, consistency, understanding and skilled support can transform the educational experience of autistic pupils.
At the heart of this book is one very personal story. Geoff’s work in autism has been profoundly inspired by his remarkable grandson, Oscar. Watching Oscar’s educational journey—the successes, the challenges, and the extraordinary difference that the right adults can make—has reinforced Geoff’s lifelong belief that every autistic child deserves to be understood before they are taught.
Oscar has been Geoff’s greatest teacher. His curiosity, determination and unique way of seeing the world have shaped the philosophy behind this training programme and inspired many of the practical approaches described throughout these pages.This book is dedicated not only to Oscar, but to every Teaching Assistant who chooses to become the trusted adult who helps an autistic child feel safe, understood, confident and able to succeed.
Angela Hannan
Latest Book now out!
A former Head of a large and successful Secondary School, Angela has been working in partnership with Geoff for twenty-five years. As a Lead Facilitator for the National College, she was involved in all their professional development programmes for school leaders and was the Regional Coach Assessor for the Midlands.
As well as working with individual Heads and Senior Leadership Teams on school improvement, Angela has unrivalled experience as a coach and works with a wide range of clients, many of whom have been with her over a number of years.
Dweena Evans
Dweena is Geoff and Angela’s daughter and a partner in their business. She has a triple distinction B-Tec National in Children’s Care, Learning and Development. A mother of three young children, she has worked with Geoff and Angela Hannan now for ten years helping to facilitate their teacher development programmes and workshops for children in schools and on-line. She is also an Instagram Influencer with over 10,000 followers and has co-authored ‘My Metacognitive Workbook’ with Geoff.
Contact us
geoff.hannan@btinternet.com
Phone +44 0 7947 840851