Description
Understanding Learning and Teaching in Secondary Schools has been specifically researched, written and developed to inform, support and guide anyone training to become a secondary teacher today.
This comprehensive new text strikes a balance between the depth of theory covered in the book and its practical application in the classroom. The authors introduce and explore key ideas and issues in an accessible, highly readable way, inviting you to reflect on your own practice and challenge both your own and others thinking.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
Part 1 YOU AS A LEARNER
2 Becoming a reflective practitioner
3 Academic writing and reading
Part 2 LEARNING AND TEACHING
4 Every Child Matters: a holistic view of the school
5 Engaging learners
6 Individual needs
7 Raising achievement
8 Planning and preparation
9 Assessment and feedback
10 Behaviour management in the classroom
Part 3 HOW SCHOOLS ARE ORGANISED
11 The mentoring process
12 School structures, leadership and management
13 Collaborative working
14 Personal, Social, Health and Economic education and Citizenship
15 Vocational and work-based learning in the school environment
16 Pastoral care and the role of the form tutor
17 Learning from others
18 Getting a job and keeping it
