Teachers and Schooling Making a Difference: Productive pedagogies, assessment and performance

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Drawing on one of the largest studies of primary and secondary classrooms ever undertaken in Australia, the authors explain how teachers and schools can refocus on the classroom strategies that make a real difference to learning outcomes. Education debates are currently dominated by free-market ideologists who push privatisation and competition as the answer to every problem, regardless of damage to schools and pupils. Teachers & Schooling Making a Difference shows that we can think about education in a far more productive way.? Teachers & Schooling Making a Difference takes seriously the question that teachers ask, "What do I do on Monday?"...and does provide answers.? Based on extensive research in 1000 primary and secondary classrooms, this book examines the tough questions about teaching methods, curriculum, assessment and teachers? professionalism. The authors isolate the key elements that make the difference in the classroom, and offer teachers practical approaches to working with all their students.

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Debra Hayes is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Technology, Sydney. Martin Mills and Pam Christie are Associate Professors in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. Bob Lingard is Professor in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield (formerly at the University of Queensland). They are the authors of Leading Learning (Open University Press, 2003). Table of Contents Introduction Productive pedagogies Productive assessment Productive performance Schools can make a difference