What Does This Look Like in the Classroom?

“If you are a teacher or school leader, imagine having the opportunity to ask questions about what could work in your classroom, to some leading researchers and practitioners, based on their critical engagement with research? Carl and Robin have pulled all that together for you in one book. Engagement with research and evidence is the only thing that can protect teachers from fads and trends, the myths of education. This book demonstrates how you can do that, and reduce your workload at the same time.”

“The pairings of interviewees are brilliant and, through answering teachers’ questions in a discursive style, each chapter provides a fascinating insight that is often absent from formal papers. Wiliam and Christodoulou, Lemov and Robinson, Weinstein and Kirschner and all the others explore the territory of their expert fields in a way that will encourage all teachers and schools leaders at every career stage to engage with contemporary research and reflect on their own practice at a deep level. A great idea, executed brilliantly.”

“This book is marvelous. It’s all too easy for those of us fascinated by thinking, emotion, and motivation to get caught up in lovely theories about these processes. What Does It Look Like in the Classroom? brings us back to reality to focus on the classroom utility of education research, and offers practical applications for teachers and administrators.”

“Teachers are eager to use education research, but no one wants to wade through dense academic prose. Happily, this book takes a different approach and provides the “human voice’ of leading education thinkers on key issues, and shares their insights in ways that teachers will find relevant to their practice.”

“I read a great many education books. I love the ones that ask the right questions to make me think and challenge my own views. BINGO! Without doubt this book focuses on the questions that we all need to answer; anyone that can influence practice in their school must read this. Quite simply this book will be a big driver to improving my school and I will never become a victim of the Abilene paradox again.”