Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum in Secondary Schools A Reader

This generic book heads the Open University's flexible PGCE series of 'readers'. Through this new series, student teachers and practising teachers looking to update their knowledge, will be introduced to the big issues of their subject.

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.

Section 1: Learners and Learning 1. Learning Perspectives on the Teachers Task 2. Tenets to Understand a Cultural Perspective on Learning 3. Ability, Intelligence and Attainment in Secondary Schools 4. How Children Learn: Implications for Practice 5. What do New Views of Knowledge and Thinking Have to Say About Research on Teacher Learning? Section 2: Teachers and Teaching 6. Teacher Effectiveness 7. What Do We Know About Effective Pedagogy? 8. New Understanding's of Teacher's Pedagogic Knowledge 9. 'He's such a nice man, but he's so boring, you have to really make a conscious effort to learn' 10. The Teacher-student Relationship in Secondary School: Insights from Excluded Students 11. The Many Roles of the Comprehensive Teacher Section 3: Classrooms 12. Life in Classrooms 13. Has Classroom Teaching Served its Day? 14. Teaching Learning and the Digital Age 15. Grouping By Ability - What Research Has To Tell Us? 16. How is Language used as a Medium for Classroom Education? Section 4: Curriculum 17. Understanding the Context of Curriculum 18. The Origins of the National Curriculum 19. Planning and Implementing Change 20. Assessment: A Changing Practice 21. Assessment and Gender Section 5: Schools 22. The Positive Effects of Schooling 23. Transitions between Primary and Secondary Schools 24. The Intelligent School 25. Equal Opportunities and Educational Performance: Gender, Race and Class 26. Home-School links 17. Policy Alternatives to Exclusion from School