This book has been written by teachers for teachers to:

highlight key issues emerging from recent discoveries about the brain
provide practical strategies that apply this new understanding in the classroom
help increase pupil motivation, improve learning and raise attainment.

Our understanding of the brain and the learning process is greater today than ever before. Strategies for Closing the Learning Gap applies this new knowledge and the resulting advances in learning approaches to the everyday classroom.

Presented in the same easy-to-read style as Mike Hughes' Closing the Learning Gap, this practical book is ideal for teacher to browse through during the lunch hour or non-contact periods.

With over 40 years' combined teaching experience and a wealth of knowledge gained through training and supporting schools across the country, Mike Hughes and Andy Vass provide a fund of effective down-to-earth ideas that have been successfully implemented and refined in the classroom.

About the Author

Mike Hughes has extensive experience of working with teachers to help them develop and improve their classroom practice. During a 20 year teaching career, he worked as a head of department, deputy head and head teacher, and spent time working in an advisory capacity for Gloucestershire LEA in the field of teaching and learning. He is now advising and supporting a wide variety of schools in their efforts to improve teaching quality, both working at strategic leadership level and coaching individual teachers in the classroom.

He is well known for his work in the field of teaching and learning styles, having developed a reputation for being prepared to put his ideas into practice on a daily basis. He has done extensive INSET work and is the author of a number of other highly regarded books including Closing the Learning Gap, Lessons are for Learning and Tweak to Transform.

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