How To Embed Evidence-Informed Teaching and Learning In Your School
Jade Pearce is an assistant headteacher with responsibility for teaching and learning in a secondary school. With 15 years’ of teaching experience, she is an evidence lead in education for the Research Schools Network and a member of the Education Endowment Foundation’s Expert Voices Group.
In this book, she explains that evidence-informed teaching helps teachers to identify the strategies that are most likely to have the largest impact on pupil outcomes and life chances . It also enables teachers to identify learning myths, prevent the use of ineffective teaching practices, as well as reducing staff overload.
In Part 1 of the book, Pearce summarises twenty pieces of education literature relating to key topics such as effective teaching and learning , cognitive science and metacognition. She also helpfully provides ‘takeaways for teaching’ to help the reader connect research to classroom practice. Each summary opens with publication information, a summary, and information about the teaching practices referred to. Pearce recommends that this section can be read as a whole, or teachers can select specific areas they want to concentrate on.
This section includes worked examples, suggested further reading and the author’s own reflections based on her experience of each strategy.
This is an excellent and deeply researched book written by a teacher who is clearly passionate about the ways in which student learning can be transformed.
Bloomsbury Education
ISBN: 978-1-80199-035-6
£16.99
Author: Mary Mountstephen
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