TY - GEN digital ID - 131707116 TI - Personalising Learning in Open-Plan Schools AU - Prain, Vaughan AU - Cox, Peter AU - Deed, Craig AU - Edwards, Debra AU - Farrelly, Cathleen AU - Keeffe, Mary AU - Lovejoy, Valerie AU - Mow, Lucy AU - Sellings, Peter AU - Waldrip, Bruce PY - 2015 SN - 9789463001939 PB - Rotterdam SensePublishers DB - UniCat KW - Teaching KW - onderwijs KW - opvoeding UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131707116 AB - "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.". ER -