Overview
- This book identifies effective teaching of low SES students in open-plan schools
- This book provides research-based guidelines on how the curriculum can be renewed and enacted effectively in these and like schools
- The book addresses larger questions about quality secondary curriculum and successful teacher professional learning support
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"How can widely acknowledged challenges facing regional secondary schools with high concentrations of low SES students, ineffectual curricula, and poor levels of student engagement, attendance, and wellbeing, be addressed? In this book we report on key outcomes of the Bendigo Education Plan that aimed to improve the academic attainment and wellbeing of 3000 regional secondary students. This Plan entailed rebuilding four Years 7-10 colleges, and developing a differentiated and personalised curriculum, with teachers team-teaching in open-plan settings. We analyse how and why teachers and students adapted to these new practices. We focus on both generic changes in the schools, around the use of ICTs and the organisation of the curriculum, and on specific approaches to teaching and learning in English, mathematics, science, social studies and studio arts. This book provides research-based guidelines on how the curriculum can be renewed and enacted effectively in these and like schools.
In analysing a large-scale attempt to address the challenge of making learning personalised and meaningful for this cohort of students, our book addresses larger questions about quality secondary curriculum and successful teacher professional learning support."
In analysing a large-scale attempt to address the challenge of making learning personalised and meaningful for this cohort of students, our book addresses larger questions about quality secondary curriculum and successful teacher professional learning support."
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Key Orientations
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Curriculum Case Studies
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Personalising Learning in Open-Plan Schools
Editors: Vaughan Prain, Peter Cox, Craig Deed, Debra Edwards, Cathleen Farrelly, Mary Keeffe, Valerie Lovejoy, Lucy Mow, Peter Sellings, … Bruce Waldrip
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-193-9
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-193-9Published: 03 November 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 244
Topics: Education, general