Each section also provides a full reference list, as well as suggested readings and links in case you wanted to delve deeper into the topic.

Even the most inspired people can’t always define the edges of their own interests—let alone explain them to others. Kirschner and Hendrick set out their rationale to take “the often implicit knowledge that [teachers] have about our profession and make it explicit”, with the understanding that “good teaching is an art informed by science”.

This book looks great and strikes a well-structured balance between text and useful figures throughout.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). Ultimately, the kind of rigidity you need to pump millions of students through the school system every year is the antithesis of the kind of flexibility that nurtures inspiration. Take the assumption to its logical extreme and teachers face a dilemma of either locking students in a room and force-feeding them knowledge or letting them enjoy themselves, knowing they won’t learn anything.Once a student sees the opportunity and enjoys the craft of writing enough to do it of their own volition, they’ll end up learning the granular rules that schools teach at the outset. Clearly then, How Learning Happens is designed to be a force for preventing teachers from falling into the trap of misconception, and incorrectly putting theory into practice as a result. People don’t care about commas; they care about publishing a piece of writing that warms them with pride.

Of the studies that trace the nature of learning, some seminal works offer prominent observations about learning and the elusive way in which true learning happens. Educational psychology is dependable science, and evidence from many directions moves toward a broad consensus of how we learn ( Pomerance et al. The main focus of this book is to cover 28 of the key works from educational and cognitive psychology to help inform you in your teaching.This is helpfully split into a number of chapters which are titled: ‘How the Brain Works’, ‘Prerequisites for Learning’, ‘How Learning can be Supported’, ‘Teacher Activities’, ‘Learning in Context’ and ‘Cautionary Tales and the Ten Deadly Sins of Education’.

A few weeks ago, Paul Kirschner contacted us and said that he co-wrote a new book with Carl Hendrick and wondered whether we would be interested in reviewing it in form of a blog post. So often I’ve been asked to recommend a starting text for educators interested in the workings of the mind―now I have one. I suspect I will be using this for many years to come - and you don't often get that from many books!Their storytelling philosophy is among the most effective tools we’ve invented for inspiring people at scale, which is why a popular documentary will spark more interest in a subject than the best textbooks ever will. I know it not because I was forced to memorize it but because I was obsessed with baseball for more than a decade. The papers are grouped into six distinct fields: how the brain works; prerequisites for learning; how learning can be supported; teacher activities; learning in context; and, perhaps most interestingly, cautionary tales and the deadly sins of education.