Lessons are for Learning
Description
What the book covers:
Practical suggestions for lesson activities: provides practical suggestions which teachers can easily incorporate into their own lessons
A sensible approach to developing classroom practice: for individuals, departments and whole schools.
Help for teachers, INSET providers and trainers: with responsibility for developing classroom practice.
The series addresses the issues of whole school improvement and new knowledge about teaching and learning and offers straightforward solutions which teachers can use to make life more rewarding for themselves and those they teach.
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Person
During a 20 year teaching career, he worked as a head of department, deputy head and head teacher, and spent time working in an advisory capacity for Gloucestershire LEA in the field of teaching and learning. He is now advising and supporting a wide variety of schools in their efforts to improve teaching quality, both working at strategic leadership level and coaching individual teachers in the classroom. He is well known for his work in the field of teaching and learning styles, having developed a reputation for being prepared to put his ideas into practice on a daily basis.
He has done extensive INSET work and runs training sessions based on the book Tweak to Transform with Osiris Educational. You can find more details here.
Content
Foreword
Introduction
Section One - A government-created dichotomy
Section Two - Lessons are for learning
Section Three - Children learn effectively when...
Section Four - What is education if not enjoyment?
Section Five - What questions did you ask today?
Section Six - 'Thinking is so important'
Section Seven - 'The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many'
Section Eight - What else are meetings for?
Section Nine - Ah, but...
