Intended to help anyone who teaches, this book has something of a cult following. Drawing on extensive teaching experience, the author presents a personal account of good practice, written in an engaging and accessible style and based on extensive scholarly sources. Part I 'Learning' and Part II 'Teaching' complement one another, and the book as a whole offers an insight into how to teach in any set of circumstances. It does so without being prescriptive, instead helping teachers to think through their own problems and situations. As a result When Teaching Becomes Learning is a book to which teachers will return on countless occasions. This edition has been updated throughout and now has 2 new chapters - Reflections of Educational Technology, and Why Teach? Chapters are now also divided up so they are each shorter and more user-friendly than before.
Part I: Learning; 1 Introduction; 2 Preliminaries; 3 Motivation and Learning; 4 The Learning Process; 5 Learning Applications; 6 Perception; 7 Memory - Facts and Answers; 8 Real Learning; 9 A Model of the Mind; 10 Tacit Learning and Conscious Learning; 11 Learning and Experiencing; Part II: Teaching; 12 The Transmission Method and an Alternative Approach; 13 The Teaching Process; 14 Teaching a Factual Subject; 15 Preparing a Lesson; 16 Classroom Interaction; 17 Difficult Lessons; 18 Teachers and Learners Asking Questions; 19 Overview; Afterword; Further Reading; Notes; Index.
