Published Books
“How Teaching Happens distills decades of complexity into an easy-to-read volume that dispenses practical wisdom. Anyone connected with education must read it…”
- Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Why Don’t Students Like School?
“Understanding how the mind works transforms human performance , and mental models is the brilliant blueprint of that understanding. ”
- Holly Korbey, editor of the Bell Ringer, education journalist and author of Building Better Citizens
“Instructional Illusions is an entertaining and insightful antidote to many insidious misconceptions about how learning and instruction work that are currently infecting instructional practice.”
- Richard E. Mayer, Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications & Media
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The Applied Science of Learning
By aligning instruction with the science of learning, educators can help their students better absorb lessons in the classroom
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How Systems Change
If we are going to teach, we need to understand what it means to learn.
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Balancing Teacher-Led Instruction and Student-Centered Learning
Taking students’ prior knowledge into account can help teachers balance direct instruction and student autonomy.
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The Science of Coaching Teachers
What happens when we apply an understanding of how people learn to the way we coach novice teachers?
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Moving from Engagement to Deeper Thinking
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Just because they’re engaged, it doesn’t mean they’re learning
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Why Time is a Teacher’s Greatest Commodity…and What to Do
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Using Inquiry to Support Deeper Learning
Teachers can use ‘effortful’ follow-up questions to refine and extend student thinking about important concepts in a lesson.
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If You Want to Remember Something, Think Hard and Dig Deep
How effortful thinking impacts student learning
