New additions to Cheney Staff Library September 2024 by Jill Fenton

The Sweet Spot

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 08:38:07 UTC

Explores the art of teacher explanation and modelling in teaching students what they need to know.

Tips For Teachers

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 08:41:20 UTC

Teaching is complex. But there are simple ideas we can enact to help our teaching be more effective. This book contains over 400 such ideas.

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A Compendium of Mathematical Methods

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 08:45:35 UTC

Brings together over one hundred different approaches from classrooms all over the world, giving curious mathematicians the opportunity to explore fascinating methods that they've never before encountered.

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The Science of Learning

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 08:46:57 UTC

Translates 99 of the most important and influential studies on the topic of learning into accessible and easily digestible overviews.

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Responsive Teaching

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 08:49:56 UTC

This essential guide helps teachers refine their approach to fundamental challenges in the classroom. Based on research from cognitive science and formative assessment, it ensures teachers can offer all students the support and challenge they need and can do so sustainably.

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The Writing Revolution 2.0

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 08:52:13 UTC

Adds valuable guidance for teachers seeking a way to bring their students' writing ability up to rigorous state standards.

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Generative Learning In Action

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 08:54:01 UTC

Helps to answer the question: which activities can students carry out to create meaningful learning?

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How I Wish I'd Taught Maths

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 08:55:48 UTC

The story of an experienced and successful maths teacher’s journey into the world of research, and what it looks like in the classroom.

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The Anxious Generation

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 09:00:10 UTC

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the world deteriorated suddenly in the early 2010s. Why have rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide risen so sharply, more than doubling in many cases?

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It's Never Just About the Behaviour

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 09:02:29 UTC

This book explores behaviour and classroom management through a holistic and best practice approach.

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Teach Like a Champion 3.0

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 09:04:53 UTC

This book teaches you how to create a positive and productive classroom that encourages student engagement, trust, respect, accountability, and excellence.

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Cognitive Load Theory in Action

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 09:09:01 UTC

Built on the foundation of all learning, the human memory system, Cognitive Load Theory details the exact actions that teachers can take to maximise student outcomes.

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Memorable Teaching

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 09:11:09 UTC

This book is for any teacher or school leader who’s interested in understanding how learning works, and how to optimise their teaching to make it happen.

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Making Good Progress?

lcullen33 — 2024-09-27 09:13:11 UTC

Outlines practical recommendations and support that Primary and Secondary teachers can follow in order to achieve the most effective classroom-based approach to ongoing assessment.

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Why Don't Students Like School?

jfe5 — 2024-10-22 06:55:49 UTC

Research-based insights and practical advice about effective learning strategies In this new edition of the highly regarded Why Don't Students Like School? cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham turns his research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning into workable teaching techniques.

This book will help you improve your teaching practice by explaining how you and your students think and learn.

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Learning as a Generative Activity

jfe5 — 2024-10-22 07:14:34 UTC

In Learning as a Generative Activity: Eight Learning Strategies that Promote Understanding, Logan Fiorella and Richard E. Mayer share eight evidence-based learning strategies that promote understanding: summarizing, mapping, drawing, imagining, self-testing, self-explaining, teaching, and enacting.

Each chapter describes and exemplifies a learning strategy, examines the underlying cognitive theory, evaluates strategy effectiveness by analyzing the latest research, pinpoints boundary conditions, and explores practical implications and future directions.

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The Hidden Lives of Learners

jfe5 — 2024-10-22 07:20:01 UTC

The Hidden Lives of Learners takes the reader dep into the hitherto undiscovered world fo the learner. It explores the three worlds which together shape a student's learning - the public world of the teacher, the highly influential world of peers and the student's own private world and experiences. What becomes clear is that just because a teacher is teaching, does not mean that students are learning.

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