Learning Theories for Everyday Teaching [Paperback]

An essential tool for new teachers and trainers who want to use learning theories to develop their practice.  The text explores key learning theories in a pragmatic way and encourages focused reflection to promote critical analysis of theories and their potential application to specific contexts. The authors highlight the practical benefits of using theory in planning, teaching and reflecting on practice.  The text also encourages the use of a range of creative approaches to enhance learning.

Each chapter explores a key aspect of the teacher's role (such as planning, motivation or assessment) and outlines theories relating to this theme - fully embedding the use of learning theories in practical every day teaching. It includes activities for reflection and a section  encouraging readers to 'map' the theory to their own practice. Scenarios and case studies throughout illustrate learning and support readers link theory to practice.

This is more than just a book about learning theories, it shows new and trainee teachers how to use theory to improve their teaching and to help students learn more every day. 
Perfect to enable trainees to understand learning theories as they apply in school not just early childhoodA useful text linking key theories to practice in education.This is an easy to read/understand important theories of teaching and learning at various levels of educationA detailed, get concise publication of key information for students on the module. Useful tasks and thinking points throughout.Text provides a good overview of learning theories for everyday teaching. In particular in provides an opportunity to reflect on our teaching and learning practiceuseful for novice teachers, because it can help them to articulate their teaching strategies in more of a theoretical framework, but the advice is quite basic.I rlƒb