Full Description
Linked to the new Teachers' Standards, this is an essential text for all secondary trainees and PGCE students, training at an ITT institution or in a school. The text covers all fundamental issues for learning and teaching in secondary schools. It guides trainee teachers through the professional attributes, skills and knowledge they need, focusing on a range of key topics and summarising important educational research. It examines the curriculum, planning, assessing and SEN and explores EAL, equality and diversity and pastoral care. A chapter is included to help support students in their Masters level work at PGCE and throughout, interactive activities make essential links between theory and practice. In all chapters, practical examples demonstrates how all aspects relate to the classroom. About the Achieving QTS Series
All the books in this successful series support trainees through their initial teacher training and guide them in the acquisition of their subject knowledge, understanding and classroom practice. All new titles within the series are linked to the 2012 Teachers' Standards adn consider the impact of key government initiatives.
Viv Ellis is Professor of Head of Education at Brunel University in London, UK, and a Visiting Professor at Bergen University College in Norway.
Contents
PART ONE: PROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES AND LEARNING
PART ONE: PROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES AND LEARNING
Introduction - Viv Ellis
Teaching as a Masters' Level Profession: Implications for Beginning Teachers - Viv Ellis
Professional Values and the Teacher - Patrick Fullick with Alaster Douglas
Understanding Learning - Gary D Kinchin
PART TWO: PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: PLANNING AND ASSESSING LEARNING
Planning for Learning - Charlotte Wright, Miranda Peverett and Viv Ellis
Assessment for Learning - Jane Briggs and Viv Ellis
Managing Behaviour for Learning - Alan J Child with Lynne Parsons and Alaster Douglas
PART THREE: PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE: ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Teaching Literacy Across the Curriculum - Rob Batho with Alaster Douglas
Teaching Numeracy Across the Curriculum - Kate Mackrell with Alaster Douglas
Teaching ICT across the Curriculum - Cathy Wickens with Alaster Douglas
The 14-19 Curriculum: Aims and Values - Richard Pring
PART FOUR: PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE: INCLUSION
Pastoral Care, Personal, Social and Health Education and Citizenship - Trevor Mutton
Special Educational Needs - Geraldine A. Price with Alaster Douglas
English as an Additional Language - Sue Walters
Equality and Diversity - John Clay and Rosalyn George
Appendix 1: Practicing Teacher Standards (Wales)
Appendix 2: The Standards For Provisional Registration GTC Scotland
Appendix 3: Professional Competences for Teachers (Northern Ireland)
References
Index
