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My #IngredientsForGreatTeaching presentation at #rEDHan
This was the presentation I gave at my first stop of my little world tour promoting my new book for this lovely audience:
Read two free chapters of The Ingredients for Great Teaching: Something about a burned steak and Prior knowledge: how learning begins
My new book The Ingredients for Great Teaching is almost available now. For the people who really can’t wait or who want to learn something about the importance of prior knowledge, I’ve got great news. Sage lets you download the second chapter for free!
Click this link to access the chapter. This free access offer is only available till the 31st of March. After that Sage will be closing the page. So get it while it’s hot. And if you want to read also the first chapter of the book, click on look inside on Amazon.
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For those who cannot wait…
To my own surprise Google has received my new book first, making it possible to read a couple of pages as preview.
You can check The Ingredients for Great Teaching at Google Books here, but keep watching this space as soon you’ll be able to get another way to read a more interesting preview…
Oh, and if you want to read the full book? You don’t have to believe the dates on Amazon, as the book will be out in the second half of March.
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Suddenly I realized: I’m going on a world tour with my new book! #IngredientsforGreatTeaching
As a teenager I only had one dream: becoming a rock star. Ok, I admit I’m still having that dream. Remember that bath tub scene in The Commitments, yes, that was me. This morning when I was updating my event-page at Amazon, I suddenly realized that I fulfilled a part of this dream. The next coming months I’ll be going on a World Tour to talk about my new book The Ingredients for Great Teaching.
And the great thing is… there are still talks for more venues in more countries. If you want me to come over to your country – and if I’m not teaching – contact Walter, Desmond & co here.
| Date | City, State | Venue | Event |
| Mar 10, 2018 9:30 AM |
Haninge, Sweden | Fredrika Bremergymnasiet | Leads Network Day/ResearchED Haninge |
| Apr 14, 2018 9:30 AM |
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | Mississauga Secondary School | ResearchED Ontario |
| Apr 20, 2018 9:00 AM |
Barcelona, Spain | TBA | The EGIN annual conference 2018 |
| Jun 22, 2018 9:00 AM |
Crowthorne, Berkshire, UK | Wellington College | Festival of Education |
| Jul 22-26, 2018 9:00 AM |
Potomac, MD, US | St. Andrews Episcopal School | CTTL’s The Science Of Teaching & School Leadership Academy |
| Sep 15, 2018 9:30 AM |
Pretoria, South-Africa | TBA | ResearchED South-Africa |
This is the cover of my new book: The Ingredients for Great Teaching
The book has been a success already in Dutch with almost 1800 copies sold in 5 weeks time.
For who can’t read Dutch, the English version will be published in March by Sage Publishing.
Some people were lucky enough to read the book already, and had this to say about it:
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.
author of ‘Education is Upside-Down: Reframing Reform to Focus on the Right Problems’
Pedro de Bruyckere helped to reveal the lack of evidence behind many intuitively appealing ideas within teaching in his previous book. In Ingredients for Great Teaching he takes the next logical step – pointing teachers towards the more reliable evidence about teaching and learning they can use in the classroom. This excellent and accessible book represents an important contribution to one of the major foundations of professionalism in teaching; expertly describing the evidence-informed, scientific insights that teachers can use to make deliberate choices for the benefit of their pupils and students.
educational researcher and author
And there is also somebody else who read the book already, check the cover and yes, I’m proud:
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A totally different aspect of my scientific interests in a new book chapter: talking about New Beat
When I started working on my PhD 2 elements were key: education and popular culture, more specific pop music. After a while I had to make a tough decision and had to focus on authenticity in education. But that didn’t mean that I forgot about that other element. Yes, I’m still a musician, but also still a proud member of IASPM, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. And once and a while I still write something that is more relevant to the studies of popular music than to education.
There is a now book out soon called ‘Made in The Low Countries’ published by Routledge and edited by Lutgard Mutsaers and Gert Keunen. And there is a chapter in it written by me about a true musical genre that originated from Belgium: New Beat.
The book is expensive as hell, and that’s a pity, because it’s a great book.
And if you don’t know what New Beat was? Check:
Btw, a main character in my chapter on New Beat is this great guy:
