The Fundamentals of Teaching A Five-Step Model to Put the Research Evidence into Practice

Teachers are bombarded with advice about how to teach. The Fundamentals of Teaching cuts through the confusion by synthesising the key findings from education research and neuroscience to give an authoritative guide. It reveals how learning happens, which methods work best and how to improve any students? learning.

Using a tried-and-tested, Five-Step model for applying the methods effectively in the classroom, Mike Bell shows how you can improve learning and eliminate time-consuming, low-effect practices that increase stress and workload. He includes case studies from teachers working across different subjects and age groups which model practical strategies for:

1. Prior Knowledge
2. Presenting new material
3. Setting challenging tasks
4. Feedback and improvement
5. Repetition and consolidation.

This powerful resource is highly recommended for all teachers, school leaders and trainee teachers who want to benefit from the most effective methods in their classrooms.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: The Fundamentals of Teaching

Section 1: Evidence

Chapter 1: Getting reliable evidence

Chapter 2: Sources of evidence

Chapter3: Brain-based explanation

Section 2: Effective classroom practice

Introduction

Chapter 4: Prior Knowledge

Chapter 5: Presenting new material.

Method 1: Working Memory limit

Method 2: Linking to Prior Knowledge

Method 3: Multi-sensory approach

Method 4: Advance Organisers

Method 5: Linking abstract ideas to concrete analogies

Chapter 6: Setting challenging tasks

Method 1: Modelling and Worked Examples

Method 2: Graphical and Non-linguistic methods

Method 3: Metacognition

Method 4: Collaborative methods

Method 5: Thinking tasks

Chapter 7: Feedback for improvement

Chapter 8: Repetition and consolidation

Section 3: Using resources effectively

Introduction

Chapter 9: Using resources effectively

Sources of evidence

Answers to quizzes in Section 2

Mike Bell taught science in a state secondary school and then ran the Evidence Based Teachers Network (EBTN). He has run successful training courses on evidence-based methods in dozens of UK schools and Further Education (FE) colleges.