Product reviews for Uncharted Territories

School leaders all know that a really good teacher is the greatest asset a school can have - they change lives for the better. Top-quality, career-long professional learning supports the nurture and development of such teachers, and there are many handbooks on the market that can help this process - yet it is not always easy to know which ones are worth the investment.

But what if you could find a book that contains a rich mine of professional learning, one that is full of rich contexts and inspiring ideas with which to support young people in exploring moral dilemmas and engage them in creative problem solving in a collaborative, inter-disciplinary manner? A book that offers teachers, both primary and secondary, countless possibilities within ten specific contexts that immediately grab learners' imaginations, with formative assessment suggestions included as well? As a teacher or a school leader you would want to read it. Uncharted Territories is such a book.

The ideas in Uncharted Territories work. I have seen them come to life in a classroom setting - they hook the learners in, ensure they become invested in the subject in hand and lead to very high-quality work. The benefit of experiencing learning in this way is considerable, and the impact on both achievement and behaviour is marked.



As Roberts and Kidd suggest in the book's introduction, teachers must become -˜Sherpas of the curriculum': I will make sure all of our teachers have a copy of Uncharted Territories to enable them to move, with their learners, upwards to the pinnacles of learning and towards greater successes.