Good Teaching and Learning : Pupils and Teachers Speak

by Morgan, Colin; Morris, Glyn

• ISBN13: 9780335202621
• ISBN10: 0335202624
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Government intervention in the control of schools, irrespective of which political party has been in power, has changed as the 1990s have proceeded. Beginning with policy innovations centred on the system, the concerns are now with the classroom, and such issues as teaching methods and skills of 'good teachers'. The quality of learning and the quality of teaching are officially designated categories of evaluation in the inspection of schools' performance.This book reports a five year research project which aimed to capture the voices of secondary school pupils and teachers on how they defined key aspects of quality in learning and teaching. Based on individual interviews with 207 pupils and 133 teachers in ten British comprehensive schools with socially and geographically different catchment areas, the book describes and compares student and teacher perspectives on topics such as: 'what constitutes good teaching?', 'successful lessons' and, 'why pupils learn more in some classes'.The content of this book will be of interest and importance to all teachers in secondary comprehensive schools, educational policymakers, teacher trainers and trainee teachers, for it provides the kind of information which can assist schools, teachers, and pupils in doing better. It makes a significant contribution to knowledge of what the key participants in teaching and learning think. The research findings reported in this book raise important issues for policy makers with regard to training and the development support provided for teachers.

Author Biography

Colin Morgan is a senior lecturer in the school of education at the Open University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
List of tables and figure	ix
Introduction: the policy background, the research and the contents of this book	1	(17)
Pupils and learning: why they learn more in some lessons	18	(16)
Pupils and teachers: why some teachers are better than others	34	(21)
Pupils and lessons: the best, the worst and those where they learn the most	55	(13)
Teachers and pupil learning: why some learn better than others	68	(22)
Teachers and pedagogy: views of their own teaching	90	(22)
Teachers' and pupils' perspectives compared: shared or dissimilar?	112	(12)
Pupil and teacher perspectives on learning and teaching quality: issues for policy-makers	124	(13)
Bibliography	137	(3)
Index	140