Steve Garnett – författare

In Cognitive Load Theory: A handbook for teachers, Steve Garnett brings clarity to the complexity surrounding CLT and provides a user-friendly toolkit of techniques to help teachers optimise their pupils' learning. Cognitive load theory (CLT) is rapidly becoming education's next 'big thing'.It is natural, therefore, that teachers will want to know more about it and, more importantly, understand how they can embed it in their classroom teaching.Written by author and international teacher trainer Steve Garnett, this invaluable handbook offers a complete yet concise summary of what CLT involves and how it can impact on pupil performance. Steve covers a wide range of teaching strategies to help teachers avoid overloading their pupils' working memories, and empowers them with the tools to get their pupils learning more effectively - particularly when learning new content. He talks you through the 14 effects that can 'clutter' working memory - for example, the split-attention effect, redundancy effect, and expertise reversal effect - and shares a diverse collection of figures and diagrams as examples of how teachers can optimise their delivery of content to students. Furthermore, he also explores the 'cognitive architecture' of the brain and how a better understanding of it can inform and improve teachers' practice.Suitable for teachers, department heads, school leaders and anyone with a responsibility for improving teaching and learning.

This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. The five steps involve: making learning multi-sensoryensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learnermatching types of learning to the gender of pupilsusing the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the brainmanaging the classroom environment to make it brain-friendly and active in supporting learning. Illustrated throughout with classroom examples from a wide range of subject areas, the book is highly practical in its focus and the ideas it contains can easily be adapted to work with all age ranges and types of school.

This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. The five steps involve: making learning multi-sensoryensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learnermatching types of learning to the gender of pupilsusing the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the brainmanaging the classroom environment to make it brain-friendly and active in supporting learning. Illustrated throughout with classroom examples from a wide range of subject areas, the book is highly practical in its focus and the ideas it contains can easily be adapted to work with all age ranges and types of school.

Dragonfly Training was founded in 1999 and has established an excellent reputation internationally for providing inspiring, realistic and practical training courses for teachers. In this, their fi rst book, three of their top trainers provide some of the very best handsonapproaches to teaching. Dragonfly's six key principles are:Promote effective starters and plenariesProvide constant reinforcement as a means of embedding knowledge andprovide on-going revisionIntroduce a variety of ideasDo first, teach after - whenever possibleEncourage students to create teaching materials themselvesDemonstrate and articulate success by modelling the desired outcomesThe trainers aim to make your life easier by providing practical strategies that can be used my most teachers, in most subjects, most of the time and by offering insight and ideas to engage, inspire and motivate including:How you present yourself in the classroomRules, routines and rituals for establishing effective learning patternsStrategies to make your teaching life easierMaking your classroom the one every student wants to be inMaking your department the envy of the school and using ICT to the maximum

However, most teachers went into education because they wanted to be teachers, not leaders, so they often haven''t had any training into how to lead a subject area.This book seeks to deliver a whole range of practical solutions to the challenges that the role presents. The areas covered range from setting and communicating your vision, delivering high quality learning across all classes and developing rigorous and effective systems of self evaluation to understanding and developing a transformational leadership style.Hugely accessible and realistic, the book also tackles some of the other critical issues that sometimes face subject leaders. Practical solutions are offered around the issues of working with under-performing colleagues as well as managing the stresses of the role.Shortlisted for the Education Resources Awards 2013, Secondary Resource - non ICT category