Making Every Science Lesson Count: Six principles to support great teaching and learning

Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, Shaun Allison returns with an offering of gimmick-free advice that combines the time-honoured wisdom of excellent science teachers with the most useful evidence from cognitive science. Making Every Science Lesson Count is underpinned by six pedagogical principles - challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning - and provides simple, realistic classroom strategies that will help teachers make abstract ideas more concrete and practical demonstrations more meaningful. In an age of educational quick fixes, GCSE reform and ever-moving goalposts, this precise and timely book returns to the fundamental question that all science teachers must ask: 'What can I do to help my students become the scientists of the future?' Suitable for science teachers of students aged 11-16 years