Teacher Training Library
Teach Like a Champion 3.0
Author: Doug Lemov, Jossey-Bass 2021
Summary: With techniques and practices to implement, this book offers a complete guide to building a healthy environment and a school culture within the classroom permeated by trust, responsibility, respect and excellence, among other precious values. It is a didactic book targeted at teachers who want to improve their experience. At the end of each chapter, they will find activities and methods that will help them to apply these techniques and put them into practice.
Visible Learning: The Sequel
Author: John Hattie, Routledge 2023
Summary: This book is an update of “Visible Learning” (2008) defined by “The Times Educational Supplement” as the “Holy Grail of teaching”. In this sequel, John Hattie reveals how “Visible Learning” has been implemented over the years, how it has been understood and misunderstood, as well as the future direction the field of educational research should take. In this edition, Hattie updates his earlier work and highlights the need for teachers to consider assessing the impact of that evidence on student learning in their classrooms.
Visible Learning
Author: John Hattie, Routledge 2008
Summary: This book is the result of fifteen years of research and synthesises more than 800 meta-analyses on influences on the achievement of school-age students. It builds a story about the power of teachers, feedback and a model of learning and understanding. This research represents the largest evidence-based investigation of what really works in schools to improve learning. Topics studied include the influence of students, the home, the school, the curriculum, the teacher and teaching strategies. A model of teaching and learning is developed based on the notion of visible teaching and visible learning.
Making room for impact
Author: Hamilton, A., Hattie, J. & Wiliam, D., Corwin 2023
Summary: This guide for educators criticises the time constraints and overload that many teachers face. This is giving rise to a type of reorganisation that has been coined “deimplementation” in the book. It involves emptying the “space’ of everything that is not a priority and instead filling it with things that are truly worthwhile and have a positive impact on the students. The outcome of the work of the book’s prestigious authors is a four-step process that consists of reducing teaching and replacing it with other highly effective proven practices, in order to get back our lives without harming our students.
Powering up your school
Author: Robinson, J., Powell, G., Macfarlane, R., Goldenberg, G., Cleary, R. & Claxton, G., Crown House Publishing 2020
Summary: Through a wealth of different tips, this book aims to integrate the Learning Power Approach (LPA) into schools. LPA is a form of teaching that seeks to give students the ability to solve problems on their own as well as collaboratively. The aim of this problem-solving is for students to develop the confidence, creativity and perseverance needed to adequately address the issues facing them. It also promotes strength of character and academic success and outlines how to achieve them.
Thinking-Based Learning
Author: Swartz, R., Costa, A., Beyer, B., Reagan, R., & Kallick, B., Crown House Teachers College Press 2010
Summary: The book provides teachers with a didactic guide to enable them to apply effective thinking to content. It is full of case studies, providing the reader with a methodology on how to teach students to find evidence to support their conclusions, how to listen carefully to others, how to develop creative thinking and how to communicate clearly and rigorously. The authors of the book conclude that time spent learning radically improves students’ intellectual performance.
Nuance
Author: Michael Fullan, Corwin 2018
Summary: By means of a simple question that serves as his thesis, the author develops an entire philosophy about how it is possible for a group of leaders to do the same thing or behave in a similar way and yet get such disparate results, with some succeeding and others failing. The book seems to be the key factor to take into consideration, because nuance is precisely the capacity for discernment that allows us to interpret situations clearly and respond to them appropriately. Thus, Fullan confirms the close connection between proper judgment and learning.
Los secretos de la memoria
Author: Héctor Ruiz Martín, Ediciones B 2022
Summary: This book is a journey through the many secrets of memory. It takes us on one of the most fascinating scientific adventures in a quest to discover who we are through extraordinary human stories that have revealed the virtues and flaws of our most precious gift: memory. The author teaches us that memory is the ability to learn, and we see how it is developed and organised, what factors influence it and why it fails us so often. This unique journey reminds us that we are all freer thanks to our memories.
The future of teaching
Author: Guy Claxton, Routledge 2021
Summary: This book aims to banish arguments based on false claims about the brain and poor understanding of cognitive science, reclaim the nuanced middle ground of teaching that develops both rigorous knowledge and ‘character’, and lay the foundations for a 21st-century education worthy of the name.
Leadership form the middle
Author: Andy Hargreaves, Routledge 2023
Summary: Drawing from research with educational leaders across the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, Hargreaves discusses a type of leadership that regards obstacles as opportunities, embraces leadership paradox, and is collaborative, inspiring, and inclusive. This ground-breaking book unpacks not only what this type of leadership looks like, but also how it is most effective in addressing complex problems and in educating young people to develop diverse global competencies to prepare them for their futures.
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