The Fundamentals of Teaching

Teachers are bombarded with advice about how to teach. This book cuts through the confusion by synthesising the key findings from education research and neuroscience to give an authoritative guide. It reveals how learning happens, which methods work best and how to improve any students' learning.

Teachers are bombarded with advice about how to teach. The Fundamentals of Teaching cuts through the confusion by synthesising the key findings from education research and neuroscience to give an authoritative guide. It reveals how learning happens, which methods work best and how to improve any students' learning.

Using a tried-and-tested, Five-Step model for applying the methods effectively in the classroom, Mike Bell shows how you can improve learning and eliminate time-consuming, low-effect practices that increase stress and workload. He includes case studies from teachers working across different subjects and age groups which model practical strategies for:

1. Prior Knowledge

2. Presenting new material

3. Setting challenging tasks

4. Feedback and improvement

5. Repetition and consolidation.

This powerful resource is highly recommended for all teachers, school leaders and trainee teachers who want to benefit from the most effective methods in their classrooms.

Autorentext

Wyoming Outlaws brings together Mike Bell's three books on Butch Cassidy in Wyoming - The Author and the Outlaw, The Butchers of Rock Springs, and Incidents on Owl Creek. All three are published by the English Westerners' Society and are available from Lulu.

Klappentext

Teachers are bombarded with advice about how to teach. The Fundamentals of Teaching cuts through the confusion by synthesising the key findings from education research and neuroscience to give an authoritative guide. It reveals how learning happens, which methods work best and how to improve any students' learning. Using a tried-and-tested, Five-Step model for applying the methods effectively in the classroom, Mike Bell shows how you can improve learning and eliminate time-consuming, low-effect practices that increase stress and workload. He includes case studies from teachers working across different subjects and age groups which model practical strategies for: Prior Knowledge Presenting new material Setting challenging tasks Feedback and improvement Repetition and consolidation. This powerful resource is highly recommended for all teachers, school leaders and trainee teachers who want to benefit from the most effective methods in their classrooms.

Zusammenfassung
Teachers are bombarded with advice about how to teach. This book cuts through the confusion by synthesising the key findings from education research and neuroscience to give an authoritative guide. It reveals how learning happens, which methods work best and how to improve any students' learning.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: The Fundamentals of Teaching

Section 1: Evidence

Chapter 1: Getting reliable evidence

Chapter 2: Sources of evidence

Chapter3: Brain-based explanation

Section 2: Effective classroom practice

Introduction

Chapter 4: Prior Knowledge

Chapter 5: Presenting new material.

Method 1: Working Memory limit

Method 2: Linking to Prior Knowledge

Method 3: Multi-sensory approach

Method 4: Advance Organisers

Method 5: Linking abstract ideas to concrete analogies

Chapter 6: Setting challenging tasks

Method 1: Modelling and Worked Examples

Method 2: Graphical and Non-linguistic methods

Method 3: Metacognition

Method 4: Collaborative methods

Method 5: Thinking tasks

Chapter 7: Feedback for improvement

Chapter 8: Repetition and consolidation

Section 3: Using resources effectively

Introduction

Chapter 9: Using resources effectively

Sources of evidence

Answers to quizzes in Section 2