Generative Learning in Action helps to answer the question: which activities can students carry out to create meaningful learning? It considers how teachers can implement the eight strategies for generative learning set out in the work of Fiorella and Mayer in their seminal 2015 work Learning as a Generative Activity.
In Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide, Adam Boxer breaks down the complex art of teaching science into its component parts, providing a concrete and comprehensive set of evidence-informed steps to nurturing brilliant science students. Adam hopes that you finds this book interesting, but his main aim is for you to find it useful.
The central purpose of this book is to help teachers organise ideas through the use of graphic organisers. Over 35 such word-diagrams are: organised into a system to help select the right tool for the job; described for rapid understanding of their strengths; and explained for step-by-step construction. Over 50 teachers each have a double-page ......
Improve your team's performance, behaviour and attitude with kindness a
Holding difficult conversations well is the key to successful leadership and management in schools - this easily read book will be invaluable to both experienced and new leaders.
The 1991 paper 'Cognitive Apprenticeship: Making Thinking Visible' greatly influenced the teaching of John Tomsett, headteacher at Huntington School in York. In this book, a number of teachers at Huntington School discuss what they consider to be the expert thought processes specific to their individual subject domains.
Intelligent Accountability discusses two opposed models of school improvement: the deficit model (which assumes problems are someone's fault) and the surplus model (which assumes problems are unintended systemic flaws).
Headteacher Sonia Thompson examines the principles and themes of Ron Berger's An Ethic of Excellence. Each chapter exemplifies the active ingredients for each of the key principles of the book and underpins them with evidence-informed practice and practical examples, from across the curriculum. The book is the latest in the In Action series.
In the latest book in John Catt's In Action series, Emma Turner, David Goodwin and Oliver Caviglioli use Annie Murphy Paul's The Extended Mind to demonstrate how teachers can help their students augment their thinking with their bodies (embodied cognition), external tools (situated cognition) and the people around them (distributed cognition).
50 classroom behaviour scenarios to suuport teachers
They Dont Behave for Me supports teachers with some key behavioural scenarios - ranging from classroom disruption and rudeness, to bullying, fights, and even a lack of overall behavioural strategy at a school level.
