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Cognitive Load Theory: A handbook for teachers
Brings clarity to the complexity surrounding cognitive load theory (CLT) and provides a user-friendly toolkit of techniques designed to help teachers optimise their pupils' learning.
Foreword by John Sweller.
CLT is rapidly becoming education's next 'big thing' - and Professor Dylan Wiliam recently vouched for its significance as being 'the single most important thing for teachers to know'. It is natural, therefore, that teachers will want to know more about it and, more importantly, understand how they can adapt their classroom teaching to take it into account.?
Written by author and international teacher trainer Steve Garnett, this invaluable pocket guide offers a complete yet concise summary of what CLT involves and how it can impact on pupil performance. Steve provides a wide range of classroom-based teaching strategies to help teachers avoid 'overloading' their pupils' working memories, and empowers them with the tools to improve learners' retrieval from long-term memory and get them learning more effectively - particularly when learning new content. ?
Suitable for teachers, department heads, school leaders and anyone with a responsibility for improving teaching and learning.
Foreword by John Sweller.
CLT is rapidly becoming education's next 'big thing' - and Professor Dylan Wiliam recently vouched for its significance as being 'the single most important thing for teachers to know'. It is natural, therefore, that teachers will want to know more about it and, more importantly, understand how they can adapt their classroom teaching to take it into account.?
Written by author and international teacher trainer Steve Garnett, this invaluable pocket guide offers a complete yet concise summary of what CLT involves and how it can impact on pupil performance. Steve provides a wide range of classroom-based teaching strategies to help teachers avoid 'overloading' their pupils' working memories, and empowers them with the tools to improve learners' retrieval from long-term memory and get them learning more effectively - particularly when learning new content. ?
Suitable for teachers, department heads, school leaders and anyone with a responsibility for improving teaching and learning.
146 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 30, 2020
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October 9, 2023
Steve Garnett authored great guidelines not only for teachers, but for the education materials writers (designers) as well. I wonder why we still don't have evidence pedagogy and andragogy courses at the university and teacher training colleges! I wish I knew these simple rules 14 years ago when I started teaching. However, I followed some of them intuitively. The list of the 14 CLT effects is concise, clear and well delivered. My hat off, Mr Garnett!
December 18, 2024
Got important ideas from the book. I don't completely agree that "Working memory" is the main reason for why we struggle to store everything in long-term memory. The interests of the individual and the content being processed also matter. Linking this theory with "MBTI" and cognitive functions will be super-good.
Nevertheless, it is a small book, definitely it was worth reading once.
Nevertheless, it is a small book, definitely it was worth reading once.
June 28, 2025
A very simple and practical guide to CLT that will help any teacher deliver a curriculum designed for students to recall effectively
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