Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning

Pooja K. Agarwal · Patrice Bain

Oct 2019 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Coleen Marlo

About this audiobook

Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to harness rigorous research on how students learn and unleash it in their classrooms. In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, PhD, and veteran K-12 teacher Patrice M. Bain, EdS, decipher cognitive science research and illustrate ways to successfully apply the science of learning in classrooms settings. This practical resource is filled with evidence-based strategies that are easily implemented in less than a minute-without additional prepping, grading, or funding! Research demonstrates that these powerful strategies raise student achievement by a letter grade or more; boost learning for diverse students, grade levels, and subject areas; and enhance students' higher order learning and transfer of knowledge beyond the classroom. Drawing on a fifteen-year scientist-teacher collaboration, more than 100 years of research on learning, and rich experiences from educators in K-12 and higher education, the authors present highly accessible step-by-step guidance on how to transform teaching with four essential strategies: Retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and feedback-driven metacognition.

About the author

Pooja K. Agarwal, PhD, is an expert in the field of cognitive science, and an assistant professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, teaching psychological science to exceptional undergraduate musicians. Her work has been featured in the newspapers, books, academic journals, and podcasts.

Patrice M. Bain, EdS, is a middle school teacher with over twenty-five years of expertise. Her classroom was the first in the US to conduct research with cognitive scientists, examining how students learn. Patrice's classroom strategies have been featured in NOVA and Scientific American.

AudioFile Earphones Award winner Coleen Marlo has earned numerous Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards and won an Audie Award for her narration of Snakewoman of Little Egypt by Robert Hellenga.