So, here I am now, sitting in my living room: laptop on my lap, book by my side, and ready to do this. Once a student sees the opportunity and enjoys the craft of writing enough to do it of their own volition, they’ll end up learning the granular rules that schools teach at the outset.

Carl Hendrick teaches at Wellington College, UK, and holds a PhD in Education from King’s College London.

Thus, if you want to learn more about – let’s say – feedback you can move to chapter 20 ( “Feed up, feedback, feed forward”) and understand it – without having read the preceding chapters. There are some “famous” (in the realms of educational psychology at least) academics here: Sweller, Rosenshine, Wiliam and Black; and there are some not so famous, such as Rothkopf and Pintrich. As the sparkle of inspiration enters our bodies, we are animated with a video game style turbo-boost.

The papers are grouped into six distinct fields: how the brain works; prerequisites for learning; how learning can be supported; teacher activities; learning in context; and, perhaps most interestingly, cautionary tales and the deadly sins of education. Educational psychology is dependable science, and evidence from many directions moves toward a broad consensus of how we learn ( Pomerance et al. This leaves space for teachers to gain an appropriate understanding of the theories behind their practice and proper measures for their effective teaching. People don’t care about commas; they care about publishing a piece of writing that warms them with pride.This is helpfully split into a number of chapters which are titled: ‘How the Brain Works’, ‘Prerequisites for Learning’, ‘How Learning can be Supported’, ‘Teacher Activities’, ‘Learning in Context’ and ‘Cautionary Tales and the Ten Deadly Sins of Education’.

Fueled by obsession, he had memorized so many key dates and events that you’d think he was studying for an exam. It can even cause people to resent the learning process because they associated it with fight-or-flight levels of stress.If we want an educated citizenry that enjoys learning, we need an alternative: we need to inspire people.