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"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.".

Education - General --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Open plan schools --- Individualized instruction --- Education, Secondary --- Differentiation (Education) --- Individual instruction --- Interest centers approach to teaching --- Learning center approach to teaching --- Open classroom approach to teaching --- Open education --- Open schools --- Open-space plan schools --- Education. --- Education, general. --- Tutors and tutoring --- Individualized education programs --- Mastery learning --- Free schools --- Experimental methods --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Education, Secondary. --- Individualized instruction. --- Open plan schools. --- High school education --- High school students --- Secondary education --- Secondary schools --- Teenagers --- High schools --- Education (Secondary)