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Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom, 2nd Edition

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:43:58 GMT

In this new edition of the highly regarded Why Don't Students Like School? cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham turns his research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning into workable teaching techniques. This book will help you improve your teaching practice by explaining how you and your students think and learn. It reveals the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.

Making Every Geography Lesson Count: Six principles to support great geography teaching (Making Every Lesson Count series)

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:42:25 GMT

Mark Enser's 'Making Every Geography Lesson Count: Six principles to support great geography teaching' maps out the key elements of effective geography teaching and shows teachers how to develop their students conceptual and contextual understanding of the subject over time.

Retrieval Practice: Research & Resources for every classroom

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:40:42 GMT

Retrieval practice may appear to be the latest buzzword in mainstream education ... but in fact it is a very powerful learning strategy.

Retrieval Practice 2: Implementing, embedding & reflecting

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:38:53 GMT

The research supporting retrieval practice is overwhelming; it is an effective and essential teaching and learning strategy. Leaders, teachers, students and parents all need to know about this strategy and how it can enhance learning. Retrieval practice is being widely used across schools and the research continues to shape classroom practice.

Powerful Geography: A curriculum with purpose in practice

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:37:34 GMT

In Powerful Geography: A curriculum with purpose in practice, Mark Enser breaks down the core elements of curriculum planning to empower teachers to design and deliver their geography curriculum effectively.

Breaking Through Barriers to Boys' Achievement: Developing a Caring Masculinity

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:36:17 GMT

Educators have for many years sought to understand why boys underperform in schools and what can be done about it. In Breaking through barriers to boys' achievement, Gary Wilson provides the full picture as to why boys of all ages underachieve and what can be done to start solving the problem. He presents the 28 barriers to boys' learning, including early language development, 'laddish' culture and lack of male role models. His emphasis is very much on turning out respectable young men who have a 'caring masculinity'.

Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain: Sequences and behaviour to enable mathematical thinking in the classroom

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:33:09 GMT

Some students think mathematically. They have the curiosity to notice relationships, the confidence to ask why, and the knowledge to understand the answer.

They are the lucky ones.

Rosenshine's Principles in Action

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:28:12 GMT

Barak Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction are widely recognised for their clarity and simplicity and their potential to support teachers seeking to engage with cognitive science and the wider world of education research.

Teaching for Mastery

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:24:12 GMT

There are many models of schooling; some work, some don't. Mastery is an entire model of schooling with over 100 years of provenance, its impact has been researched for decades, with many of the world's greatest education minds testing and refining the approach. It's one of the models of schooling that actually works.

A Curriculum Guide for Middle Leaders: Intent, Implementation and Impact in Practice

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:22:52 GMT

A Curriculum Guide for Middle Leaders is a comprehensive guide to the curriculum for middle leaders and subject leaders. Designed to support middle leaders in both primary and secondary schools, it explores every aspect of successful curriculum leadership beginning with intent and moving on to cover implementation and impact. It is closely aligned to the new inspection framework and demystifies key terminology including selection, sequencing, progression, and interleaving.

Let's Hear It from the Boys: What boys really think about school and how to help them succeed

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:19:01 GMT

This is a superb book. Gary is one of the country's leading authorities on raising boys' achievement. Let's Hear It from the Boys is full of insight and helpful practical approaches. I recommend it very highly. -- Graham Tyrer *

Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:16:36 GMT

‘Practical, sensible, step by step, very thorough. There’s a lot more to this book than first meets the eye. Read it carefully. Read it again. Keep coming back to it. Apply it. You won’t regret it.’ Barry Smith, Head teacher

Teaching WalkThrus: Five-step guides to instructional coaching

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:19:40 GMT

Sherrington and Caviglioli created a captivating learning and development experience elegantly designed for the informed, busy, and autonomy-seeking teacher.

Teaching WalkThrus 2: Five-step guides to instructional coaching

Fri, 1 Oct 2021 09:32:52 GMT

In the groundbreaking and best-selling Teaching WalkThrus Volume 1, Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli produced a brilliantly concise and accessible repository to 50 essential teaching techniques.