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Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli team up to present 50 essential teaching techniques, each with five clear and concise illustrations and explanations. It forms a truly unique repository of key teaching methods, valuable to any classroom practitioner in any setting.

The book covers important practical techniques in behaviour and relationships; curriculum planning; explaining and modelling; questioning and feedback; practice and retrieval; and Mode B teaching. Each technique is simply explained and beautifully illustrated in five short steps, to make sense of complex ideas and support student learning.

About the authors

Tom Sherrington started teaching in 1987 and has had a 30 year career in education. He's now in demand as a consultant and conference speaker, working with schools and colleges to improve teaching, curriculum and assessment. He is the author of 'The Learning Rainforest', described as 'one of the best teaching books of all time' by Book Authority.

Oliver Caviglioli is uniquely placed to bridge the gap between education and graphic design. A former special school head teacher, Oliver learned design principles from an early age from his architect and typographer father. Four decades of reading educational research found its visual expression in his spectacular, image-rich book 'Dual Coding With Teachers'.

Reviews

‘Two wise souls bringing together complex research into bite-sized, classroom content; accessible and pragmatic. The perfect recipe for any classroom teacher.’ -- Ross McGill, TeacherToolkit

‘I’ve never seen anything quite like this before. This is not only a beautiful book, but an incredibly useful one. Powerful strategies brought to like by concise descriptions and clear images. Brilliant!’ - Craig Barton, Mr Barton Maths

‘I love this book! It is a cliché that to make something look really simple you need to be very clever and think very hard about the message and how to communicate it. The combination of words and images here is beautifully crafted: concise, elegant, clear and effective. You feel there isn’t a line or a word that has not been thought about, debated, refined and polished to be the best it can be. Teaching WalkThrus is sure to become a much-valued classic.’ — Professor Rob Coe

‘TEACHING WALKTHRUs is billed as ‘a guide to instructional coaching’ and of course, as you would expect from something produced by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli, it is certainly an excellent resource for that purpose. But it is also much much more. It is a beautifully illustrated tour of the most important things to be thinking about in teaching, and in the leadership of teaching. Teaching is such a complex endeavour that the idea of a complete guide to teaching excellence is surely impossible, but this comes closer than anything I have seen to date. Anyone seriously interested in improving education needs this at their side.’- Dylan Wiliam