Engaging Learners

A class can be skilled and motivated to learn without a teacher always having to lead. Engaging learners in this way unpicks intrinsic motivation, the foundation that underpins a productive learning environment and helps to develop independent learning, creativity and improved behaviour management.

Based on five years of intensive research through Osiris Educational's award-winning Outstanding Teaching Intervention programme, during which the authors have trained more than 500 teachers to teach over 1,300 lessons in schools nationwide, this book is packed with proven advice and innovative tools developed in these successful outstanding lessons.

Written in the same humorous, thought-provoking style with which they both teach and train, Andy and Mark aim to challenge all who teach, from NQTs to seasoned professionals, to reflect on their day-to-day practice and set an agenda for sustainable teacher and leadership improvement.

Shortlisted for the Education Resources Awards 2013, Educational Book Award category.

Click here to view the related paperback title Outstanding Teaching: Teaching Backwards, 14.99.

; At the end of every week many teachers leave school exhausted. In an era when responsibility for exam results lies with them and not their students it's time to redress the balance so that students take more of the responsibility for their learning and progress.

Andy Griffith is a leading trainer with Osiris Educational and a director of Malit Limited, a Merseyside-based education training company that helps teachers and schools to raise the quality of teaching and learning through high quality INSET, training and consultancy. Andy taught for 12 years in secondary schools, for four years of which he was Head of Careers and Alternative Curriculum provision. He still links closely with schools and is a consultant on motivational learning and alternative curriculum design to different LEAs. Mark Burns is a leading trainer with Osiris Educational and a director of Malit Limited. Mark brings a wealth of experience from his twelve years of teaching as well as from working in the field of gifted and talented education. His keen appreciation about what motivates people to learn and engage lies at the core of his training.