Pedro De Bruyckere is an educational scientist at the Artevelde University College of Applied Sciences in Ghent, Belgium and Leiden University, the Netherlands. He wrote The Ingredients for Great Teaching and co-authored the two Urban Myths about Learning and Education books.

• Chapter 1: Cooking, medicine and evidenceChapter 2: Prior knowledge: how learning beginsChapter 3: The subject matter knowledge of the teacherChapter 4: Make them think!Chapter 5: Repeat, pause, repeat, linger, pause, repeatChapter 6: The importance of practiceChapter 7: Metacognition: Teaching your pupils and students how to learnChapter 8: Evaluate and give feedbackChapter 9: Use multimedia, but use it wiselyChapter 10: Have a vision (and it doesn′t matter which one)Chapter 11: Like your pupilsChapter 12: Underlying themes

If you’re seeking to improve your knowledge of education research but unsure where to start, you won’t find a better gateway book than this. Its insights are scholarly enough to inspire future study, yet practical enough to be applied in first period tomorrow.