Rooted in thirty years of classroom experience this book is packed with proven time saving practical pedagogical tips and techniques designed to make lessons tick.
It's a treasury of authentic, carefully curated, easy to implement ideas which lead to smooth, running classroom experiences for you and your students.
The book aims to reconnect macro research with micro classroom interactions. There are impactful takeaways that you can trial yourself using chapter-based templates which encourage you to quickly make a positive difference in your setting.
There are suggestions here to help you pare back your practise, and you might even find you are doing less - give them a try!
Carmel has 33 years of experience working in schools. She has taught, observed or filmed over 20,000 lessons in primary and secondary classrooms.
She is an honorary fellow of the Historical Association and co-authored two editions of Amazon best-selling Hodder 'My Revision Notes' for GCSE History AQA and OCR B GCSE. She is the host of the Reteach History Podcast into its third series. She has been a GCSE and A'Level examiner and regularly presents at conferences.
She has worked with The British Library, The Premier League and has created several series for BBC Bitesize and BBC Teach. She was proudly part of the BBC Daily Bitesize Team during the Covid Lockdown.
She's currently working with Historian Tracy Borman to bring scholarship to students and teachers on a CPD webinar series focusing on The Historic Environment and is honoured to be a judge in the inaugural 'Inspiring History Teacher' Awards 2026.
However, most importantly most of her time is still spent with young people in the classroom. She undertakes video coaching of teachers in lessons using experience and research to put evidence of what works best, for smooth running lessons, into action.
