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Kate Jones is a Teacher of Humanities, History specialist and teacher of Politics. She is Head of History at the not-for-profit, leading co-educational and non-selective school The British School Al Khubairat. She has achieved SSAT Lead Practitioner. Former GCSE examiner. Writer, blogger and award winning international educational speaker and presenter.

Reviews

‘Translating evidence into practice, Kate has succeeded in making research a social process for students, teachers and leaders. We all know the importance of “best bets” and what strategies are most likely to work; we also understand that the evidence on retrieval is overwhelming. What the profession is starting to appreciate is that research should supplement teacher expertise, not supplant it. Kate is a practicing teacher and leader, faithfully adopting and intelligently adapting the science to suit her students in her classroom. Kate explains and contextualises the evidence. She gives insights that will be invaluable to students on how to use retrieval practice in their studies, practical advice for teachers for their classroom and implementation advice for senior leaders. If you love to teach and want to be the best teacher you can be, this is the book for you!’ Phil Naylor (@pna1977), Teacher, senior leader and host of the podcast ‘Naylor’s Natter’ 

‘I highly recommend Retrieval Practice. As Kate says, retrieval practice is a low effort, high impact strategy, and it is therefore one that is very worthwhile for all teachers to know more about. As well as running through the fundamental theory in an accessible way, the book highlights many of the broader benefits of retrieval practice, such as improving metacognitive awareness of the learning process among a class, and helping teachers to be more confident about what their class know. And as Kate rightly points out, teachers who report a lack of time to use retrieval should consider that there are few strategies (if any) that result in such benefits for both the durability and transferability of learning. A real strength of the book’s approach is the many practical tasks it presents. The diagrams and example worksheets will make such tasks very easy for teachers to understand and implement.’ — Jonathan Firth (@JW_Firth) Author and Teaching Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow