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 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.