How teaching happens: seminal works in teaching and teacher effectiveness and what they mean in practice.
Section 1
Teacher effectiveness, development and growth.
1. An experienced teacher = an expert teacher: David Berliner on teacher expertise.
2. Those who understand, teach: Lee Shulman on knowledge growth in teachers.
3. Teachers are made, not born: Linda Darling-Hammond on teacher training.
4. The death of the teacher? Jere Brophy and Thomas Good on teacher behaviour.
5. I think, therefore I teach: Daniel Muijs and colleagues on teacher effectiveness.
6. When thinking and acting become one: Donald Schon on reflective practice.
Section 2
Curriculum development/ instructional design.
7. It's all about alignment: John Biggs on constructive alignment.
8. Pebble in the pond: M.David Merrill and Joroen van Merrienboaer on instructional design.
9. How to tell the story of an idea: Jerome Bruner on representing knowledge.
10. If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up someplace else: Robert Mager on lesson objectives.
Section 3
Teaching techniques
11. There's no such thing as a child who can't be taught: Siegfried Engelmann on direct instruction.
12. Burning the strawman: Barak Rosenshine on explicit instruction.
13. Make something of what you've learnt: Logan Fiorella & Richard Mayer on ways to generate learning.
14. Learning: no pain, no gain: Robert Bjork on desirable difficulties.
15. Step for step: Robert Atkinson and collegues on examples.
Section 4
Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)
16. Why you can't teach what you don't know: Lee Schulman on teacher knowledge.
17. Mathematical knowledge for teaching: Heather hill, Deborah Hall and colleagues on mathematics PCK.
18. The science of science technology: Jan Van Driel and colleagues on science PCK
19.Three chords and the truth: Pamela Grossman and Lee Schulman on PCK and english.
20. How should we teach reading? Anne Castles and collegues on the science of reading.
21. Why technology should be the servant not the master: Matthew Koehler and Punya Mishra on PCK and technology.
Section 5
In the classroom
22. "To thine own self be true." : the authentic teacher: Pedro De Bruyckere & Paul A. Kirschner on teacher authenticity.
23. Relationships matter: Theo Wubbels & Mieke Brekelamans on the importance of relationships.
24. Why relationships matter: Robert Marzano on classroom management.
25. Teachers as intelligent consumers: Berliner on classroom management.
Section 6
Assessment
26. The many faces and uses of assessment: Benjamin Bloom and colleagues on different types of evaulation.
27. When testing kills learning: John Biggs on constructive alignment.
28. Don't ask questions that don't require understanding to answer: Richard Anderson on test design.
29. Why teaching to the test is so bad: Daniel Koretz on grade inflation.
30. Hocus-pocus teacher education: NCTQ on what teachers don't learn in school.