Teaching Meaning

Teaching Meaning reveals what truly drives understanding in the classroom. Grounded in the science of how humans make sense of the world, it reframes teaching as an evolving game built on five essential moves: Communicating, Conversing, Varying, Modelling, and Practising.

Many teachers have been left disenchanted by the myth of a single “best practice.” Teaching Meaning offers something different: a dynamic, co-adaptive way of teaching where success comes from deepening, not perfecting, the conversation between teacher and learner.

You’ll see explanations as ways of helping students notice what matters, questions as tools for surfacing their thinking, variation as the key to moving beyond recall into real understanding, and modelling and practice as the moves that turn new insights into lasting habits. Transform every lesson from fact-recall into meaning-making and rediscover the living art of teaching.

  • Distinct Perspective

    “In Teaching Meaning, Christian Moore-Anderson Christian Moore-Anderson gets to the heart of how well-designed teaching can transform student learning. Writing with his distinctive perspective, he shows how many rules of thumb in teaching are half-truths. Greater clarity in our own thinking as teachers, along with a better understanding of what is needed in the minds of students if they are to learn, can make teaching much more effective.”
    Dr. Michael Reiss
    Professor of Science Education, University of London