Making Every Lesson Count - 6 Principles That Improve Science Teaching

By Julian Dance - Head of Big Ideas at SideCog There are very few books in education that genuinely change how you think about teaching. Making Every Lesson Count by Shaun Allison and Andy Tharby is one of them. It is not a book of strategies in the usual sense. There are no gimmicks, no quick wins, no performative techniques. What it offers instead is clarity - and in education, clarity is rare. I have returned to it repeatedly over the years because it reflects what actually works in classrooms. Not in theory, but in practice - particularly in complex subjects like science, where misundersta