Good Teaching and Learning: Pupils and Teachers Speak

This book captures the voices of secondary school pupils and teachers and how they define key aspects of quality in learning and teaching. Based on individual interviews with 207 pupils and 133 teachers in ten British comprehensive schools with socially and geographically different catchment areas, the book describes and compares student and teacher perspectives on topics such as: 'what constitutes good teaching?', 'successful lessons' and, 'why pupils learn more in some classes'. The book provides the kind of information which can assist schools, teachers, and pupils in doing better.