Building on their bestselling book How Learning Happens, Paul A. Kirschner and Carl Hendrick are joined by Jim Heal to explore how teaching happens. The book seeks to closely examine what makes for effective teaching in the classroom and how research on expert teaching can be used in practice.
Introducing 30 seminal works from the field of education psychology research, the learning sciences, and teaching effectiveness studies, each chapter takes an important work and illustrates clearly and concisely what the research means and how it can be used in daily practice. Divided into six sections the book covers:
- Teacher Effectiveness, Development, and Growth
- Curriculum Development / Instructional Design
- Teaching Techniques
- Pedagogical Content Knowledge
- In the Classroom
- Assessment
The book ends with a final chapter on "What-s Missing?" in how teachers learn to teach.
Written by three leading exper
