Motivating Your Secondary Class

Introduction: Motivating Pupils in the Secondary Classroom Is there a Crisis in the Lower Secondary School? - Tony Pell Initial Encounters: Moving to Secondary School - Maurice Galton Working Together - Learning Together: Co-operative Working in the Classroom - Maurice Galton 'It's good to talk!' Improving communication between pupils and teachers and why it's worth the effort - Linda Hargreaves Teacher and pupil development in different school and classroom contexts - Susan Steward and Charlotte Page Why were some classrooms more successful? - Susan Steward One Big Family? Promoting Harmony and Resilience - Maurice Galton

'This book sets out to address the question of why so many pupils in years 7-9 "switch off" and make insufficient progress in the core subjects. An overall conclusion is that the increased top-down emphasis (in the UK) on careerist motives to learn has had damaging effects; rather, pupils should learn to love learning for its own sake' - The Teacher Trainer Journal 'I approached this book with the view that it could be suitable for my students on the KS2/3 ITE routes, both undergraduate and post/professional graduate and that, additionally it could spark interest at M level: I wasn't disappointed!...I can strongly recommend it' - ESCalate 'This is a very important book. It should be read by teachers, headteachers and all those with policy responsibilities for curriculum and school development at the secondary level. The Cambridge team are global leaders in research in education. Their findings merit very close scrutiny' - Bob Moon, Professor of Education, The Open University, UK