Great Books Teaching should be about exploration, implementation and reflection. It is when these aspects blend together that the teacher has the opportunity to experience real progression. Let us not forget why we, the educators, are here and what the purpose of teaching actually is: to train a new generation of children and young adults [...]

Ian Harris, Oliver Caviglioli, and Carol Thompson Thinking Skills and Eye Q: Visual Tools for Raising Intelligence is perhaps one of the best books available on mind-mapping and Thinking Skills diagrams. Many of the ideas you’ll come across on this website has been inspired from Thinking Skills and Eye-Q. We have used this book during [...]

Garr Reynolds Reynolds book is, to put it simply, outstanding. There are several books that discuss the issues of presenting information in various ways, some of which do an excellent job for example Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points, but Presentation Zen takes the reader to another level when it comes to understanding the nature of [...]

Shirley Clark Active Learning through Formative Assessment is the latest book by Shirley Clarke where she dicusses and provides concrete examples of how to intergrate Assessment for Learning in a natural way where students become part of the whole learning proccess from planning to delivery. Active Learning through Formative Assessment follows her previous book Formative [...]

Alan November Fourteen year old: “I’m working on a history paper about how the Holocaust never happened.” Long pause. “Zack, where did you hear that the Holocaust didn’t happen?” “The Internet. It’s on a Web page at Northwestern University.” November Learning How often do you hear students, and teachers, mutter something like ‘find it on [...]