The Working Classroom: How to Make School Work for Working-Class Students - Couverture souple

Bromley, Matt; Griffith, Andy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785836986 ISBN 13 : 9781785836985

Editeur : Crown House Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Written by Matt Bromley and Andy Griffith, The Working Classroom: How to make school work for working-class students offers practical strategies and tools to help secondary schools address the needs of working-class students, including by building cultural capital and designing more engaging learning.

Schools do amazing work to support children from disadvantaged backgrounds. But this book will enable them to do more. Disadvantage comes in many forms, but cultural poverty, where some students have relative knowledge gaps compared with their more affluent peers, can be addressed successfully by schools. The Working Classroom explores how working-class students are disadvantaged by a flawed system and what schools can do to close the gap.

Written by two experienced authors with a deep understanding of the challenges that poverty and low aspiration can bring, and a passion for social justice, The Working Classroom examines how and why we must seek systemic changes. The book focuses on actions within the control of teachers and school leaders which will ensure that we create a socially just education system – one that builds on the rich heritage of the working-class, rather than seeing their background as a weakness. It offers practical ways for students and families to build on the best of working-class culture, whilst also empowering teachers, students and parents to change the system.

The Working Classroom provides teachers with useful methods to improve the cultural capital of students from disadvantaged backgrounds that can be easily replicated and implemented in their own setting. Backed up by practical case studies that have a proven impact in schools with high levels of deprivation, this book will enable teachers to audit their current provision and encourage them to adopt new systems and practices so that they, and the wider school, will have a greater impact on the lives of working-class students and their families.

Suitable for both teachers and leaders in a secondary school or sixth form college setting who seek to support social change in education and anyone in the corporate or non-education world who wants to practice effective altruism or philanthropy.

• Contents include:


• Introduction
• Part I: Why isn’t secondary school working for working-class students?
• Chapter 1. Who are the working class and why do they underachieve?
• Chapter 2. How is the ‘game’ rigged?


• Part II: What can we do to make secondary school work better for working-class students?
• Chapter 3. What can we do about classism?
• Chapter 4. Equality through the core curriculum
• Chapter 5. Equality through extra-curricular activities
• Chapter 6. Equity through adaptive teaching approaches and curriculum interventions
• Chapter 7. Extension through curriculum enhancements
• Chapter 8. How can we engage parents and carers as partners in the process?


• Part III: Seven lessons to teach working-class students
• Lesson 1. What is classism?
• Lesson 2. Class shaming
• Lesson 3. The power of story
• Lesson 4. Motivation
• Lesson 5. Emotional regulation
• Lesson 6. Memory and revision
• Lesson 7. Time management
• Conclusion

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Andy Griffith is the founding director of MALIT Ltd. He has won a national training award for his work in education and has consulted for a number of organisations including the BBC and Comic Relief. Andy's prime focus is to design training and learning opportunities that challenge people to strive for excellence.

Andy's work has been shortlisted in the Best Learning & Development Initiative - Public/Third Sector category of the 2018 CIPD People Management Awards.

Matt Bromley is an education writer and advisor with over twenty years’ experience in teaching and leadership including as a secondary school headteacher, FE college vice principal, and multi-academy trust director. Matt is a journalist, public speaker, ITT lecturer, and school improvement advisor. He also remains a practising teacher, working in secondary, FE and HE settings. Matt writes for various magazines, is the author of numerous best-selling books on education, and co-hosts the award-winning SecEd podcast.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Crown House Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785836986
• ISBN 13: 9781785836985
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Easy Access System Europe Oü, 16879218; gpsr.requests@easproject.com; ; Mustamäe tee 50, 10621, Tallinn, Estonia; Tallinn; 10621; Estonie