Teaching Rebooted- Jon Tait @teamtait with Bernie Kaye

<p><strong>About Jon</strong></p> <p>Jon is an experienced senior leader and current deputy headteacher working in a large and diverse secondary school in Middlesbrough. As a classroom teacher he has experience of working in 3 different North East schools for over 15 years.</p> <p>Trained as a Physical Education teacher, Jon taught both boys and girls PE for over 10 years as well as more recently teaching Computer Science. Jon is an expert in teaching and learning and is responsible for the strategic leadership of the quality of teaching in his school.</p> <p>Jon has also been recognised by Microsoft as one of their <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/educators/miee/default.aspx?Search=true">Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts</a>&nbsp;and forms part of their global educator visionary team, showcasing how technology&nbsp;can pave the way&nbsp;to better student outcomes.</p> <p>Jon regularly writes for his own education blog on topics about strategic school leadership and classroom pedagogy. He also is a regular education blogger for various UK education websites and contributes regular thoughts and think pieces on topical matters across the education landscape.</p> <p>Jon is also a published author for Bloomsbury Publishing – <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Ideas-Secondary-Teachers-Engaging/dp/1472945328/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484774305&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=jon+tait">‘100 Ideas on Engaging Learners’ </a>(published August 2017) and ‘Senior Leadership’ for the Bloomsbury CPD Library (due to be published summer 2018).</p> <p><strong>This weeks book&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><em>Teaching Rebooted </em>uncovers the most important pieces of educational research on the science of learning, helping teachers to understand how we learn and retain information. Jon Tait explores strategies such as metacognition, interleaving, dual coding and retrieval practice, examining the evidence behind each approach and providing practical ideas to embed them in classroom practice. This pick-up-and-go manual h