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Teaching would be easy if there were clear recipes you could follow every time. The Ingredients for Great Teaching explains why this is impossible and why a one-size-fits-all approach doesn t work.
Instead of recipes, this book examines the basic ingredients of teaching and learning so you can use them wisely in your own classroom in order to become a better and more effective teacher.
Taking an approach that is both evidence-based and practical, author Pedro de Bruyckere explores ten crucial aspects of teaching, the research behind them and why they work like they do, combined with everyday classroom examples describing both good and bad practice.
Key topics include:
- Teacher subject knowledge
- Evaluation and feedback
- The importance of practice
- Metacognition
- Making students think
This is essential reading for teachers everywhere.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Cooking, medicine and evidence
Chapter 2: Prior knowledge: how learning begins
Chapter 3: The subject matter knowledge of the teacher
Chapter 4: Make them think!
Chapter 5: Repeat, pause, repeat, linger, pause, repeat
Chapter 6: The importance of practice
Chapter 7: Metacognition: Teaching your pupils and students how to learn
Chapter 8: Evaluate and give feedback
Chapter 9: Use multimedia, but use it wisely
Chapter 10: Have a vision (and it doesn't matter which one)
Chapter 11: Like your pupils
Chapter 12: Underlying themes
About the author
Pedro De Bruyckere is an educational scientist at the Artevelde University College of Applied Sciences in Ghent, Belgium and Leiden University, the Netherlands. He wrote The Ingredients for Great Teaching and co-authored the two Urban Myths about Learning and Education books.
Summary
Shows you how to understand and use 10 key educational ingredients to become a better and more effective teacher.
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If you re seeking to improve your knowledge of education research but unsure where to start, you won t find a better gateway book than this. Its insights are scholarly enough to inspire future study, yet practical enough to be applied in first period tomorrow.
Eric Kalenze
