Useful Links & References

The following texts have lots of interesting ideas.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any views on any of them
– we will consider setting up a place on the website for your comments. 

Many of these authors’ thinking in audio/visual format are featured on their own websites and on YouTube – they are easily found.

The most reliable and fastest supplier of all texts in Ireland is Conor Holmes, Outside the Box, near Naas, Co Kildare: conor@otb.ie.

Learning to Learn – The Fourth Generation: making sense of personalised learning
Guy Claxton

TLO
ISBN: 1901219526

2006

Learning to Learn in Practice: the  L2 approach
Alistair Smith with Mark Lovatt & John Turner

Crown House
ISBN:  9781845902872

2009

Brain-Based Learning (Second edn)
Eric Jensen

Sage Publications
ISBN: 9781412962568

2009

Superteaching (Fourth edn)
Eric Jensen

Corwin Press (Sage Publications)
ISBN: 9781412963329

2009

The Little Book Of Big Stuff About The Brain
Andrew Curran

Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 978-184590085-4

2008

Smart Moves: why learning is not all in your head
Carla Hannaford

Midpoint Trade Books
ISBN: 9780915556373
Revised Edition

2005

Building 101 Ways To Learning Power
Maryl Chambers, Graham Powell & Guy Claxton

TLO
ISBN: 1901219488

2005

Thinking For Learning
Mel Rockett and Simon Percival

Network Educational Press
ISBN: 1855390965

2002

The Learner’s Toolkit: supporting the SEAL framework in secondary schools
Jackie Beere

Crown House
ISBN: 978184900790

2007

ASK: how to teach learning to learn in the secondary school
Juliet Strang, Philip Masterson & Oliver Button

Crown House
ISBN: 1845900243

2006

Learning How to Learn: improving practice
Mary James et.al.

Routledge
ISBN: 9780415400268

2006

Improving Learning How to Learn: classrooms, schools and networks
Robert McCormick et.al.

Routledge
ISBN: 9780415404273

2007

The Unfinished Revolution: learning, human behaviour, community and political paradox
John Abbott & Terry Ryan

Network Educational Press
ISBN: 1855390647

2000

The Teacher’s Toolkit: raise classroom achievement with strategies for every learner
Paul Ginnis

Crown House Publishing
ISBN: 9781899836765

2002

Learning: a sense-maker’s guide
Chris Watkins

Commissioned by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers

2003

Principles Into Practice: a teacher’s guide to research evidence on teaching and learning
Andrew Pollard et al

Teaching & Learning Research Programme (TLRP) (www.tlrp.org) with Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)

2007

Learning Futures: next practice in learning & teaching

The Innovation Unit (www.innovationunit.org)

with Paul Hamlyn Foundation

2008

Effective Learning in Schools
Christopher Bowring Carr & John West Burnham

Pearson
ISBN:027362413X

1997

Manageable School Self Evaluation
David Potter

ETS
ISBN:0954629027

2004

A Policy for Learning
Mike Hughes

ETS
ISBN: 0954629000

2003

Teach Like a Champion
Doug Lemov

Jossey Bass
ISBN: 9780470550472

2010

What’s the Point of School
Guy Claxton

Oneworld Oxford
ISBN: 9781851686031

2010

The Learning Powered School
Guy Claxton, Meryl Chambers, Graham Powell, Bill Lucas

TLO Bristol
ISBN: 9781901219548

2011

New Kinds of Smart
Bill Lucas, Guy Claxton

Open University Press
ISBN: 9780335236183

2010

Personalizing Learning
John West Burnham & Max Coates

Network Educational Press
ISBN: 1855391147

2005

Coaching in Schools
Mike Hughes

ETS
ISBN: 0954629019

2004

The Trainer’s Toolkit
Kimberly Hare & Larry Reynolds

Crown Publishing
ISBN: 1904424236

2005

Tweak To Transform
Mike Hughes & David Potter

Network Educational Press/ETS
ISBN: 1855391406

2002

And The Main Thing Is Learning
Mike Hughes

ETS
ISBN: 9780954629038

2006

Embedded Formative Assessment
Dylan Wiliam

Solomon Tree Press
ISBN: 9781934009307

2011

Making Thinking Visible
Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin  Morrison

Jossey-Bass
ISBN:9780470915516

2011

Mindset
Carol Dweck

Robinson
ISBN: 9781780332000

2006

Bounce
Matthew Syed

Fourth Estate
ISBN: 9780007350544

2010

Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell

Penguin
ISBN: 9780141036250

2008

Finnish Lesson
Pasi Sahlberg

Teachers College Press
ISBN: 9780807752579

2010

Out Of Our Minds – Learning to be Creative
Ken Robinson

Capstone
ISBN: 9781907312472

2011

The Decisive Moment
Jonah Lehrer

Canon Gate
ISBN: 9781847673152

2009