Classroom teachers are increasingly expected to teach online - creating content area courses from scratch with little support or training. But high-quality, researched-based online teaching has its own particular set of skills and expectations, and most resources are directed at college-level instructors.
Education doesn't stand still, so being a good teacher means being in a constant state of evolution. How do we achieve this? Covering the latest developments in professional learning, Kate Jones and Robin Macpherson explore the massive changes that the global pandemic has brought, seeing it as a paradigm shift with manifest opportunities.
Hands up if you've ever been given lesson observation feedback that you didn't understand, didn't agree with, or just thought was plain rubbish. If your hand is in the air, you're in good company! When it comes to teachers receiving high-quality feedback that helps them improve their teaching, we have a serious issue in our schools.
Teachers want ......
Whisper it quietly: a lot of time is being wasted in a lot of schools. Actually, why are we whispering? What we should really be doing is calling this out - loudly! The job of schools is too important for us to keeping quiet. Schools are in the 'transforming lives' business. There is no time to waste! In The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our ......
Why teaching in our classrooms and schools isn't good enough (and how we can make it better)
Through discussion of key messages from educational research, and drawing on a track record of success, Bruce Robertson explores how the barriers to great teaching can be addressed, leading to transformations in teaching practice across classrooms and schools.
In The Sweet Spot, Michael Chiles explores the art of teacher explanation and modelling in teaching students what they need to know. Delving into the research, Michael sets out the reasons why the art of telling and showing students underpin effective teaching and learning. Armed with research-based evidence, Michael looks at a range of efficient ......
Most books on teaching ask teachers to be inspirational, to operate at 100 miles an hour with creativity oozing out of every pore. Dominic Salles says that's unsustainable. But you can get brilliant results using some simple practices taken from the myriad of educational research on classroom practices. It isn't a guide to all the extra stuff you ......
At a time of renewed focus on the schools curriculum, Roy Blatchford has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers in education in a brilliant mixture of both practical and conceptual essays about what makes for a positive secondary curriculum. Perfectly timed to reflect the new Ofsted framework, the contributions reflect a range of ......
A handbook to inform school premises staff, business managers, headteachers and governors in England of their legal responsibilities around buildings compliance.
