1st Edition
Designing Tasks in Secondary Education Enhancing subject understanding and student engagement
Foreword: Walter Doyle Part 1: 1. The background Introduction: Tasks, Concepts, and Subject Knowledge Ian Thompson 2. Designing Tasks which Engage Learners with Knowledge Anne Edwards 3. Policy Perspectives on Task Design: Classroom learning and the national curriculum Mark Chater Part 2: Learning from the subjects 4. Mathematics and Pedagogy: Designing tasks for Mathematics teacher education Gabriel J. Stylianides and Anne Watson 5. Disciplinary Knowledge: Task design in Geography Roger Firth 6. Communication, Culture, and Conceptual Learning: Task design in the English classroom Ian Thompson 7. Practical Theorizing: Designing tasks for Science explanations Ann Childs and Jane McNicholl 8. Promoting Learning: Task design in the Foreign Language classroom Trevor Mutton and Robert Woore 9. Negotiating Knowledge: Task design in the History classroom Jason Todd 10. Insiders and Outsiders: Task design in learning about religions/ Task design in Religious Education Nigel Fancourt Part 3: Looking forward 11. Designing the Task of Teaching Novice Teachers How to Design Instructional Tasks Peter Smagorinsky
Biography
Ian Thompson is Associate Professor of English Education at the University of Oxford, UK.
