ABSTRACT

This best-selling textbook offers a sound and practical introduction to the skills needed to gain Qualified Teacher Status, will help to develop the qualities that lead to good practice and a successful future in education, and covers the range of situations and potential problems faced by student and newly qualified teachers. Updates to this edition include the changes to the National Curriculum for England and Wales; and changes to the organization of, and curriculum for, early professional development.

Focusing on evidence-based practice, and full of strategies, ideas, and activities, this book covers key concepts and skills including:

  • managing classroom behaviour
  • planning lessons and schemes of work
  • assessment and recording
  • inclusion and special educational needs
  • using ICT in teaching and learning
  • getting the first teaching post.

This book is the core text for the subject-specific Learning to Teach in the Secondary School series, also published by Routledge, and is an essential buy for every student teacher. It also has a companion website.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part 1|2 pages

Becoming a Teacher

chapter 1|11 pages

1 What Do Teachers Do?

chapter 1|11 pages

3 Managing your Time and Stress

chapter 1|18 pages

4 Teaching and Learning with ICT

part 2|2 pages

Beginning to Teach

chapter 2|15 pages

1 Reading Classrooms

chapter 2|13 pages

2 Schemes of Work and Lesson Planning

chapter 2|12 pages

3 Taking Responsibility for Whole Lessons

part 3|2 pages

Classroom Interactions and Managing Pupils

chapter 3|15 pages

1 Communicating with Pupils

chapter 3|16 pages

2 Motivating Pupils

chapter 3|15 pages

3 Behaviour for Learning

part 4|2 pages

Pupil Differences

chapter 4|16 pages

1 Meeting Individual Differences

chapter 4|15 pages

2 Growth, Development and Diet

chapter 4|16 pages

3 Cognitive Development

chapter 4|12 pages

4 Responding to Diversity

chapter 4|15 pages

5 Moral Development and Values

part 5|1 pages

Helping Pupils Learn

chapter 5|14 pages

1 Ways Pupils Learn

chapter 5|18 pages

2 Active Learning

chapter 5|16 pages

3 Teaching Styles

chapter 5|8 pages

4 Improving your Teaching

part 6|1 pages

Assessment

chapter 6|24 pages

1 Assessment for Learning

chapter 6|13 pages

2 External Assessment and Examinations

part 7|2 pages

The School, Curriculum and Society

chapter 7|11 pages

1 Aims of Education

chapter 7|9 pages

2 The School Curriculum

chapter 7|8 pages

4 Pedagogy and Practice

part 8|1 pages

Your Professional Development

chapter 8|16 pages

1 Getting your First Post

chapter 8|11 pages

2 Developing Further as a Teacher

chapter 9|2 pages

And Finally Marilyn Leask