Lessons for Learning
12 Building Blocks for Effective Teaching
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-912906-67-3 (ISBN)
Description
How do you create effective lessons? How do you develop and implement what solid empirical research tells us about what works in the classroom? How do we help learners to learn more effectively, efficiently, and enjoyably? These are the core questions of the book Lessons for Learning: 12 Building Blocks for Effective Teaching.This book is positioned at the crossroads between scientific research on learning, teaching and teacher effectiveness on the one hand and good teaching and classroom practice on the other. The authors present twelve evidence-informed didactical building blocks for good teaching and learning. They explain why those building blocks work and give concrete examples of how to apply them in the classroom. For each building block, the authors provide additional theoretical and practical resources. The authors combined have more than 20,000 hours of practical teaching experience at different levels and represent broad expertise in carrying out high-quality empirical research on teaching and learning. They also solicited and received help in writing the book from scores of teachers who provided practical examples to illustrate how they got started with and use the building blocks in their daily practice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Suffolk
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-912906-67-3 (9781912906673)
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Tim Surma MSc has been in secondary (secondary) education and teacher training for nearly 20 years, conducts PhD research at the Open University (NL) and coordinates practice-oriented research at Thomas More Hogeschool (BE). Kristel Vanhoyweghen MSc has been a secondary (secondary) education teacher for two decades, is a Master in Educational Sciences and teaches education and didactics at the teacher-training course of Karel de Grote Hogeschool (BE). Dr. Dominique Sluijsmans is a lecturer in Professional Assessment at Zuyd Hogeschool. Before that, she also worked as a researcher at the Open University and Maastricht University and as a Sustainable Assessment lecturer at the Education Faculty of the Hogeschool van Arnhem and Nijmegen. Dr. Gino Camp is an associate professor of educational psychology at the Open University (NL) and a researcher in the field of effective learning strategies and their application in practice. Prof. Dr. Daniel Muijs is a university professor of educational science at the University of Southampton, scientific director of Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) in the United Kingdom, and conducts research into the effectiveness of teachers and schools. Prof. Paul A. Kirschner, dr.h.c. is emeritus professor of educational psychology at the Open University (NL). He is a research fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the International Society of Learning Sciences and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities and a former member of the Education Council.
Content
INTRODUCTION 5
OUR SCIENTIFIC BASIS
Cognitive psychology
Teacher effectiveness studies
INSIGHTS FROM SCIENCE
INSIGHT 1 The working memory has a limited capacity
INSIGHT 2 The expert thinks differently than the beginner
INSIGHT 3 Teaching generic skills: the goal is not always the means
INSIGHT 4 Learning is not quite the same as performing
INSIGHT 5 What the most effective teachers do is ... just teach well
12 BUILDING BLOCKS FOR EFFECTIVE EDUCATION
1. Activate relevant prior knowledge
2. Provide clear, structured and challenging instruction
3. Use examples
4. Combine word and image
5. Have curriculum actively processed
6. Find ways to find out if the whole class has understood
7. Support for difficult assignments
8. Spread the exercise with subject matter in time
9. Provide variety in exercise types
10. Use assessment as a learning and exercise strategy
11. Give feedback that makes students think
12. Teach your students to learn effectively
OUR SCIENTIFIC BASIS
Cognitive psychology
Teacher effectiveness studies
INSIGHTS FROM SCIENCE
INSIGHT 1 The working memory has a limited capacity
INSIGHT 2 The expert thinks differently than the beginner
INSIGHT 3 Teaching generic skills: the goal is not always the means
INSIGHT 4 Learning is not quite the same as performing
INSIGHT 5 What the most effective teachers do is ... just teach well
12 BUILDING BLOCKS FOR EFFECTIVE EDUCATION
1. Activate relevant prior knowledge
2. Provide clear, structured and challenging instruction
3. Use examples
4. Combine word and image
5. Have curriculum actively processed
6. Find ways to find out if the whole class has understood
7. Support for difficult assignments
8. Spread the exercise with subject matter in time
9. Provide variety in exercise types
10. Use assessment as a learning and exercise strategy
11. Give feedback that makes students think
12. Teach your students to learn effectively