Big Fish, Little Fish

Teaching and Learning in the Middle Years

Susan Groundwater-Smith, Nicole Mockler

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781107432314
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316277218
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: History of Education

Big Fish, Little Fish: Teaching and Learning in the Middle Years provides pre-service and early career teachers with a pathway to understanding the needs of students as they make the important transition from primary to secondary schooling. The book explores contemporary challenges for teaching and learning in the middle years, with a focus on student experience, identity, engagement and resilience. Key issues, such as teaching academically at-risk students, the impact of education policy on middle years students, and teacher preparation and identity, are given comprehensive coverage. Unique to this text is its focus on and analysis of the history of middle-years education, as well as its in-depth discussion of the experiences of young Indigenous and M?ori students. Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its contributors, Big Fish, Little Fish prepares pre-service teachers to best meet the needs of students as they enter the challenging middle years of their education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of contributors
• Preface
• Part 1 Introduction
• Part 2 The needs of learners in the middle years
• Part 3 Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment in the middle years
• Part 4 Preparing teachers for the middle years
• Part 5 Conclusion
• Index