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Teaching WalkThrus: Five-step guides to instructional coaching: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques
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 behavior 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.
166 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2020
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February 8, 2025
Een interessant boekje wat je eigenlijk nooit echt uit zal hebben. Ideaal om regelmatig door te nemen als je in het onderwijs werkt. Ik hou altijd wel van dit soort tips en handige boekjes. Goed gebruik gemaakt van illustraties ter ondersteuning.
March 27, 2022
A really good little guide to many different aspects of pedagogical practice, broken down into easy steps in an appealing and readable layout. Does what it sets out to do really well, and is a very valuable resource for (particularly) early career teachers. Good for flicking through to focus on one particular element within a lesson, or to reassure yourself you're doing something right(ish) when your mentor/provider is vague!
Opted for 4 stars instead of 5 purely due to the lack of depth and specificity that I often felt like I wanted when reading/flicking through. This book doesn't set out to provide that (and fair enough!), but I would love a similar resource that did; preferably both a bit more explicit on the pedagogical research and knowledge underpinning techniques, and more helpful in the provision of examples to make it clear how (in fluid, diverse ways) a practice might be adapted into classroom settings. Would still strongly recommend, and also look forward to reading Walkthrus 2 and 3.
Opted for 4 stars instead of 5 purely due to the lack of depth and specificity that I often felt like I wanted when reading/flicking through. This book doesn't set out to provide that (and fair enough!), but I would love a similar resource that did; preferably both a bit more explicit on the pedagogical research and knowledge underpinning techniques, and more helpful in the provision of examples to make it clear how (in fluid, diverse ways) a practice might be adapted into classroom settings. Would still strongly recommend, and also look forward to reading Walkthrus 2 and 3.
January 31, 2022
This is not a book to read all at once. I read it one WalkThru at a time, at most two or three over a full day, thinking about each one after I read it. This has given me an idea of what is in here. I now look forward very much to dipping into this as I want to work on a particular point.
The Why and How sections solidly show how you can use the methods in this book in your own context. The authors emphasise that there is no panacea for education that will suddenly make all your lessons perfect. But they do show convincingly, based on both research and experience, that by adapting these techniques to our individual contexts we can certainly improve our teaching practice a lot.
The Why and How sections solidly show how you can use the methods in this book in your own context. The authors emphasise that there is no panacea for education that will suddenly make all your lessons perfect. But they do show convincingly, based on both research and experience, that by adapting these techniques to our individual contexts we can certainly improve our teaching practice a lot.
June 15, 2024
At just 140 pages this contains a lot of information which is structured into bite sized snippets, which makes it a useful resource for ongoing training or revision purposes
The book contains a cross section of some of the most popular educational theories and sets of ideas. For example, Rosenshine’s Principles are summed up very early on, as also is Dan Willingham’s book ‘Why don’t students like school.’ One of the advantages of this approach is that readers can cover a lot of material very quickly. But that is also a disadvantage for readers less familiar with the material, as the brief and compact format in this book means that there is significant summarising and abbreviation of the ideas in the book, so that some original nuances are less evident.
The contents of the book also raises some questions about the series of three books of which this is the first. For example, we are introduced to worked examples with a reference to cognitive load theory (36%) but there is no presentation of cognitive load theory itself within this book. That occurs in the second book in the series. Its not clear whether, and to what extent, all three books were planned as a cohesive set of books, but there are some rough edges involving the sequencing of ideas where further editing might be helpful.
Overall this is a helpful book because it summarises so many ideas and brings them together into a single helpful volume. The focus of the book is upon teachers and those who already have some familiarity with pedagogical issues, and so readers from that demographic will probably get the most out of the book.
The book contains a cross section of some of the most popular educational theories and sets of ideas. For example, Rosenshine’s Principles are summed up very early on, as also is Dan Willingham’s book ‘Why don’t students like school.’ One of the advantages of this approach is that readers can cover a lot of material very quickly. But that is also a disadvantage for readers less familiar with the material, as the brief and compact format in this book means that there is significant summarising and abbreviation of the ideas in the book, so that some original nuances are less evident.
The contents of the book also raises some questions about the series of three books of which this is the first. For example, we are introduced to worked examples with a reference to cognitive load theory (36%) but there is no presentation of cognitive load theory itself within this book. That occurs in the second book in the series. Its not clear whether, and to what extent, all three books were planned as a cohesive set of books, but there are some rough edges involving the sequencing of ideas where further editing might be helpful.
Overall this is a helpful book because it summarises so many ideas and brings them together into a single helpful volume. The focus of the book is upon teachers and those who already have some familiarity with pedagogical issues, and so readers from that demographic will probably get the most out of the book.
March 19, 2021
This book was deceptively simple. On its face, it seems like a collection of strategies/procedures that most teachers already do. However, with its focus on cross-referencing each, an assortment of references for further study, and the ADAPT model for putting everything into action, it becomes a valuable resource for teachers at any level. In fact, I think if you replace most people's teacher training programs with this one book (I'd throw in Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion as well), the profession would be much better off.
June 22, 2021
Excellent summaries of different teaching strategies. This book would be great to dip into & to use in delivering CPD to a group of teachers, but as a cover to cover read, I found it hard going. Many if the techniques I have come across before, in other books, where they are explained in more detail with case studies given as examples. By trying to make these WalkThrus context free, they have become a bit dry.
August 19, 2020
Using walkthrus - a form of dual coding - this book aims to give an overview of key educational theories and techniques for teaching. Easy to dip in a out of and to get the idea of each technique really quickly - highly recommended.
April 5, 2021
Excellent book for any instructional coach. Clear, concise language and deeply informed by research and evidence of what works for teachers and students. WalkThrus 2 is out now I can't wait to get my hands on it.
August 27, 2021
A great bit of CPD and really useful - 5*
It's not even too dense and in your face like some books.
Great to flick back to and will be doing this a lot I think as part of the instructional training.
It's not even too dense and in your face like some books.
Great to flick back to and will be doing this a lot I think as part of the instructional training.
June 2, 2020
A dynamic visual resource to be able to connect back to whenever needed. Easily digestible and immediately useful.
October 4, 2020
A clear, easy-to-digest and helpful guide for busy teachers in graphic form. I loved it, and I loved that it wasn't a huge time commitment.
June 9, 2021
A well designed resource to support teachers to grow their pedagogical approaches.
September 18, 2021
A concise guide to best practices.
July 25, 2022
Eigenlijk heb je dit boek nooit uitgelezen. Een naslagwerk om als leerkracht in de klas te hebben en regelmatig mee aan de slag te gaan.
August 21, 2022
Promising read; good use of visuals to support abstract ideas
January 18, 2023
Met al die pictogrammen en weetikveelwat is elk doorloopje een flinke aanslag op het werkgeheugen. Vermoeiend om te lezen.
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