The Learning Rainforest is an attempt to capture various different
elements of our understanding and experience of teaching. It is a
celebration of great teaching - the joy of it and the intellectual
and personal rewards that teaching brings. It is aimed at teachers
of all kinds; busy people working in complex environments with
little time to spare. The core of the book is a guide to making
teaching both effective and manageable; it provides an accessible
summary of key contemporary evidence-based ideas about teaching and
learning and the debates that all teachers should be engaging in.
It's a book packed with strategies for making great teaching
attainable in the context of real schools. The Learning Rainforest
metaphor is an attempt to capture various different elements of our
understanding and experience of teaching. Tom's ideas about what
constitutes great teaching are drawn from his experiences as a
teacher and a school leader over the last 30 years, alongside
everything he has read and all the debates he's engaged with during
that time. An underlying theme of this book is that a career in
teaching is a process of continual personal development and
professional learning as is engaging in fundamental debates rage on
about the kind of education we value. As you meet each new class
and move from school to school, your perspectives shift; your sense
of what seems to work adjusts to each new context. In writing this
book, Tom is trying to capture some of the journey he's been on. He
has learned that it is ok to change your mind. More than that -
sometimes it is simply necessary to get your head out of the sand,
to change direction; to admit your mistakes.
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