The articles which make up this reader provide both overview and analysis of the central issues in secondary education. Focused closely upon what it means to teach and learn in the modern secondary classroom, this book provides invaluable insight into the development of secondary education today. It is an ideal introduction to the task of teachers in secondary schools. Issues covered in the book include:the new agenda around teaching and learning effective pedagogy the teacher-student relationship teaching, learning and the digital agegrouping by ability managing the curriculum change assessment equal opportunities and educational changeThis is the lead book in a series which bring together collections of articles by highly experienced educators which introduce, explore and illuminate the issues surrounding teaching in secondary schools. They are invaluable resources for those training to become teachers, newly qualified teachers and more experienced practioners, particularly those mentoring NQTs.
Author(s): Steven Hutchinson; Bob Moon; Ann Shelton Mayes
Edition: 1
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 336
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 11
List of abbreviations......Page 12
Sources......Page 14
Foreword......Page 16
Preface......Page 18
Introduction......Page 19
Learning perspectives on the teachers' task......Page 24
Tenets to understand a cultural perspective on learning......Page 31
Ability, intelligence and attainment in secondary schools......Page 46
How children learn - implications for practice......Page 52
What do new views of knowledge and thinking have to say about research on teacher learning?......Page 59
Teacher effectiveness......Page 70
What do we know about effective pedagogy?......Page 85
New understandings of teachers' pedagogic knowledge......Page 91
'He's such a nice man, but he's so boring, you have to really make a conscious effort to learn': the views of Gemma, Daniel and their contemporaries on teacher quality and effectiveness......Page 101
The teacher-student relationship in secondary school: insights from excluded students......Page 112
Teachers for the comprehensive idea......Page 128
Life in classrooms......Page 140
Has classroom teaching served its day?......Page 145
Teaching, learning and the digital age......Page 163
Grouping by ability - what research tells us......Page 186
How is language used as a medium for classroom education?......Page 190
Understanding the context of curriculum......Page 212
The origins of the National Curriculum......Page 215
Planning and implementing change......Page 225
Assessment: a changing practice......Page 229
Assessment and gender......Page 235
The positive effects of schooling......Page 248
Transitions between primary and secondary schools......Page 274
The intelligent school......Page 284
Equal opportunities and educational performance: gender, race and class......Page 290
Home-school links......Page 300
Policy alternatives to exclusion from school......Page 313
Index......Page 322
