The Illustrated Pocket Guide to Teaching and Learning

This pocket guide simplifies teaching process by presenting learning in four key cognitive processes and uses the author’s popular sketchnote format to exemplify key concepts for teaching and learning. The Illustrated Pocket Guide to Teaching and Learning is an essential classroom companion for all teachers.

Teaching is a highly complex task carried out in a rapidly changing environment where split second decisions need to be made about what and how to teach to best support pupils to learn. This illustrated pocket guide simplifies teaching process by presenting learning in four key cognitive processes and uses the author’s popular and unique sketchnote format to exemplify key concepts for teaching and learning. It shows the reader not only what they need to understand about the learning process but how to make better “in the moment” decisions and improve their own practice in the long term. Examining not only what good teaching looks like in practice, but also what to do when things go wrong with learning, the book shows teachers how to adjust their approach to make a difference for the students. Including development tasks to help you explore your pedagogical practice in more depth, the book covers:• Teaching practice or approaches• Questioning, feedback and assessment• Instruction and modelling • Managing pupils‘ cognitive load• Common teaching problems and how to address them • How to make sure pupils make progressBringing the complexity of cognitive science research to life in an accessible and innovative format, The Illustrated Pocket Guide to Teaching and Learning is an essential classroom companion for all teachers and a starting point for further research.