Evaluating for engagement: Enhancing learning in the middle years
Jenny Nayler
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Evaluating for engagement: Enhancing learning in the middle years is a key resource for teachers and schools in their investigations of what works in the middle years of schooling. The challenges associated with engaging students during this phase of their schooling are widely documented. As a result, practical and powerful ideas about how to go about evaluating the success or otherwise of programs are needed. Along with case studies describing innovative practice and a review of key issues related to student engagement, this text provides practical resources in relation to:
- a user-friendly evaluation framework that values the perspectives of students and their teachers in finding out what works and what doesn't work in their contexts
- specific strategies that can be used to evaluate school-based initiatives
- building a collaborative inquiry culture among teachers
- successful teaching and learning strategies transferable to a
range of contexts.
Gender and IT: Ongoing challenges for Computing and Information Technology education in Australian secondary schools
Edited by Julianne Lynch
Item no: B22
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Gender and IT: Ongoing challenges for Computing and Information Technology education in Australian secondary schools brings together a diverse group of scholars to address critical questions about the decline in enrolments in computing and information technology (CIT) subjects at the school level, and the long-standing problem of the under representation of girls in CIT education. Drawing on data from three Australian states, the authors analyse current curriculum structures, pedagogical practices, school contexts and student and teacher beliefs, in order to interrogate how CIT as a curriculum area is socially constructed, and how this construction is gendered.
Going beyond questions of gender, the book contributes to our understanding more generally of a nascent discipline which holds a complex position in relation to other curriculum areas, cross-curricular initiatives, and a world outside of schools which is increasingly permeated with technology. This is an important book for teachers, curriculum designers and administrators with investments in CIT education.
12 to 18: a qualitative longitudinal study of students, values and differences in Australian schools Lyn Yates and Julie McLeod
Item no: B21
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How do young people see themselves today? How do they make decisions as they go through school? What effect does going to different schools have?
This book is based on a major eight year Australian research study that followed a number of girls and boys at four different schools from the beginning of secondary schooling through every year until their first year beyond it. The study was set up to look at girls and boys from different backgrounds, and to look at what happened to similar young people going to different schools, as well as what happened to different types of girls and boys attending the same school. It was set up to take a close-up look at what gender meant to girls and boys now; and how their individual and family qualities interacted with the particular school setting they encountered. The stories of young people and their schools in this book are one way readers might revisit some important current debates: debates about the role of public and private education; perennial questions about the shape and patterns of educational inequality; and the current concern with citizenship and values - what kinds of people are schools forming today?
Philosophy with young children - a classroom handbook
Philip Cam, Liz Fynes-Clinton, Kathlyn Harrison, Lynne Hinton, Rosie Scholl, Simon Vaseo
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Imagining, wondering, reflecting, questioning, talking and speculating - philosophy with children is exciting, surprising and challenging.
Philosophy with Young Children - a classroom handbook is a handbook for teachers of early primary. The handbook is designed to assist teachers in the teaching of philosophy, and in developing skills of inquiry and reasoning in their students, utilising story books.
The handbook focuses on twelve stories and includes activities relating to each story. For each story the handbook details the area of philosophy emphasised, philosophical themes to be covered, and activities based on eliciting good questions, exploring concepts and developing reasoning skills.
To assist teachers with planning and curriculum design, two indexes are also included in the handbook - one according to themes and one according to skills. This practical handbook will assist teachers to explore philosophy in the classroom with their students - enabling students to consider issues, to ask questions, to discuss ideas and to gain further insights into their lives, and the lives of others.
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