Lessons for Learning: 12 Building Blocks for Effective Teaching

Twelve evidence-informed didactical building blocks for good teaching and learning, and examples of how to apply them in the classroom.

Tim Surma MSc has been in secondary (secondary) education and teacher training for nearly 20 years, conducts PhD research at the Open University (NL) and coordinates practice-oriented research at Thomas More Hogeschool (BE). Kristel Vanhoyweghen MSc has been a secondary (secondary) education teacher for two decades, is a Master in Educational Sciences and teaches education and didactics at the teacher-training course of Karel de Grote Hogeschool (BE). Dr. Dominique Sluijsmans is a lecturer in Professional Assessment at Zuyd Hogeschool. Before that, she also worked as a researcher at the Open University and Maastricht University and as a Sustainable Assessment lecturer at the Education Faculty of the Hogeschool van Arnhem and Nijmegen. Dr. Gino Camp is an associate professor of educational psychology at the Open University (NL) and a researcher in the field of effective learning strategies and their application in practice. Prof. Dr. Daniel Muijs is a university professor of educational science at the University of Southampton, scientific director of Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) in the United Kingdom, and conducts research into the effectiveness of teachers and schools. Prof. Paul A. Kirschner, dr.h.c. is emeritus professor of educational psychology at the Open University (NL). He is a research fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the International Society of Learning Sciences and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities and a former member of the Education Council.