This reader-friendly and accessible text introduces 50 teaching and learning approaches and explores how they work in practice by taking an honest look at the advantages and disadvantages of each one. For each approach, the authors include in-practice examples taken from a range of teaching contexts. The text also offers clear support for teachers on how they can assess learners' progress when using each approach. This focus on the need to see and measure the learning that is taking place supports the reader to concentrate on the learning and not be distracted with the newness of different approaches.

Introduction1. Analogue versus digital2. Bingo3. Board rotation4. Brainstorming5. Break it up6. Buzz groups7. Card activities8. Case study9. Catchphrase10. Charades11. Concept mapping12. Debates13. Demonstration14. Discovery15. Field trip16. Find your match17. Flipped classroom18. Guess who or what19. Guest speakers20. Half and half21. Hot potato22. Inner and outer circles23. Interleaving24. Jigsaw puzzle25. Labelling26. Learner presentation27. Live lecture28. Mind mapping29. Newspaper article or blog30. Online quizzes, discussions and surveys31. Optimists and pessimists32. Peer review33. Picture prompt34. Quescussion35. Question bowl36. Rhyme and rap37. Role play38. Simulation39. Snowballing40. Textbook challenge41. Think, pair and share42. Three minute paper43. Three two one44. True or False45. TV commercial46. Walking in your shoes47. Watch, summarise and question48. Whip round49. Who wants to be a millionaire?50. WorksheetAppendix