Completely revised, this new edition with its fresh new design, teaching strategies, ideas and advice provide general principles for teaching. A Coherent, evidence based view of teaching and learning, presenting some radical new methods known to greatly improve student achievement.
From the Inside Flap
Teaching is about to embark on a revolution and, like medicine, abandon custom and practice, and fashions and fads to become evidence-based. Half a million experiments in real classrooms have uncovered the teaching methods that work best. These can improve students’ attainment by two grades compared with conventional practice. Over 50 of these top teaching methods are examined in this book and these methods, some old, some new:
* can each raise pass rates by 20 per cent to 30 per cent.
* are creative, challenging, and greatly enjoyed by students.
* require the learner to do more in class …. and the teacher less!
* equip students for progression, by ‘teaching intelligence’.
Petty argues that only teachers can lead the evidence-based revolution, and they must do so at their own pace, using as a guide the ultimate evidence – what works best in their own classrooms.
Teachers have as much to gain as students in meeting this professional challenge. The methods make teaching less draining and more interesting, as well as more effective.
This book is a road map into this exciting new territory. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
