Barak Rosenshine

Barak Rosenshine (1930 to 2017) was an American educational researcher and professor of educational psychology, best known for the set of teaching principles that bear his name, Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction. Born in Chicago, he studied psychology at the University of Chicago, taught history in schools for six years, and then earned a doctorate in education at Stanford University in 1968 before teaching at Temple University and, from 1971, the University of Illinois, where he ended his career as emeritus professor of educational psychology. His research dealt with reciprocal teaching, instructional scaffolding, cognitive strategies, direct instruction and teacher performance. His 2012 article Principles of Instruction distilled ten research-based practices, drawn from cognitive science, studies of master teachers and work on cognitive support for complex tasks, into a bridge between research and classroom practice that has been especially influential among teachers in the United Kingdom.