This book clarifies the specific skills that students are expected to learn in practical settings and provides an up-to-date review of how to develop these skills. It provides concrete, evidence-informed teaching strategies to ensure that students are really learning from their experiences in the lab, field or work placement and developing the practical, job-ready skills that universities are increasingly asked to deliver. By focusing on teaching interactions around questioning, providing feedback on student work, explaining and demonstrating, and the management of relationships with a class, the book allows teachers to rapidly understand and apply these techniques with their own classes.

This book clarifies the specific skills that students are expected to learn in practical settings and provides an up-to-date review of how to develop these skills. It provides concrete, evidence-informed teaching strategies to ensure that students are really learning from their experiences in the lab, field or work placement and developing the practical, job-ready skills that universities are increasingly asked to deliver. By focusing on teaching interactions around questioning, providing feedback on student work, explaining and demonstrating, and the management of relationships with a class, the book allows teachers to rapidly understand and apply these techniques with their own classes.