Ian Gilbert takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through the theories of teaching. On the way the author highlights seven key factors that affect motivation and offers a range of strategies to help teachers implement and use them at the chalk face.

Why do I need a teacher when I've got Google? is just one of the challenging, controversial and thought-provoking questions Ian Gilbert poses in this urgent and invigorating book.

Questioning the unquestionable, this fully updated new edition will make you re-consider everything you thought you knew about teaching and learning, such as:

- Are you simply preparing the next generation of unemployed accountants?
- What do you do for the 'sweetcorn kids' who come out of the education system in pretty much the same state as when they went in?
- What's the real point...

Ian Gilbert's There is Another Way: The second big book of independent thinking shares inspirational ideas from a number of contributors intended to inspire educators to do what they know is right - regardless of the pressures from above. We are living at a time when loud voices from inside and outside the profession are telling teachers and school leaders `this' is the way education should be done. This is how you should lead a school. This is how you should manage a class. This is how children should learn. This is what you should do to make children behave. These messages are given as...