Effective Learning in Classrooms
- Chris Watkins - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
- Eileen Carnell - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
- Caroline Lodge - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Effective Learning addresses what makes learning effective and how to promote it effectively in classrooms. The text provides case studies and examples from practitioners and ideas and frameworks based on international research. Based on evidence about how classrooms change, the authors present four major dimensions of advancing real learning:
- Active Learning
- Collaborative Learning
- Learner-driven Learning
- Learning About Learning
'This is a splendid book. [The authors] distil the results of their distinguished research and teaching to provide teachers with a new set of lenses with which to look at successful learning in classrooms. At the core of the book is a powerful critique of externally imposed frameworks for improving teaching and learning, and in their place, Watkins, Carnell and Lodge offer a powerful conception of the teacher as transformative pedogogue...This is a book which should not be on the shelf but on the desk of every professional development coordinator in schools' -
Teacher Development
Includes some clear strategies which are relevant to the course content. Some strategies have been useful for students to try and reflect on in the classroom.
This is a good book to support learning and M level work and research on the PGCE. I would also recommend this book for supporting school based CPD.
A really useful text for linking theories of learning to their practical applications. Recommended for several of our MA Education units as well as essential for one of them.
