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.

Product Description: These two papers examine composing in secondary schools. They look at group composing and identify four recurring models to which most school composing conforms. Steven Hutchinson looks at 14-year-olds and with video recorded evidence analyses group discussiom and rehearsal as the way in which the finished product emerges...read more

Product Description: Recognising that journey and movement are vital not only to the novels of Cervantes but to much of world literature as well, Steven Hutchinson develops, in this book, a problematic of the journey in relation to literature and discourse...read more