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An introduction to the skills and knowledge necessary for becoming a secondary school teacher, with updates on resilience, digital technologies, closing the achievement gap and using data.
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List of tasks
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the 8th Edition
Unit 1 BECOMING A TEACHER
1.1 Becoming a teacher: What do teachers do?
Linda la Velle and Marilyn Leask
1.2 Student teachers’ roles and responsibilities
Susan Capel
1.3 Developing your resilience: Managing stress, workload and time
Maddy Findon and Sue Johnston-Wilder
1.4 Using digital technologies for professional purposes
Andrew Csizmadia and Sarah Younie
Unit 2 BEGINNING TO TEACH
2.1 Reading classrooms: How to maximise learning from classroom observation
Ava Redondo
2.2 Schemes of work, units of work and lesson planning
Sophy Bassett, Mark Bowler and Angela Newton
2.3 Taking responsibility for the whole class
Michelle Lowe and Clyde Redfern
Unit 3 CLASSROOM INTERACTIONS AND MANAGING PUPILS
3.1 Communicating with pupils
Paula Zwozdiak-Myers and Susan Capel
3.2 Motivating pupils
Misia Gervis and Susan Capel
3.3 Managing classroom behaviour: Adopting a positive approach
Philip Garner
3.4 Primary-secondary transitions
Divya Jindal-Snape
Unit 4 MEETING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
4.1 Pupil grouping, progression and differentiation
Alexandra Titchmarsh
4.2 Adolescence, health and well-being
Ceri Magill and Barbara Walsh
4.3 Cognitive development
Judy Ireson and Paul Davies
4.4 Responding to diversity
Helen Bowhay and Stefanie Sullivan
4.5 Values education: Discussion and deliberation
Ruth Heilbronn
4.6 An introduction to inclusion, special educational needs and disability
Nick Peacey
Unit 5 HELPING PUPILS LEARN
5.1 Ways pupils learn
Diana Burton
5.2 Active learning
Michelle Lowe
5.3 Teaching styles
Chris Carpenter and Hazel Bryan
5.4 Improving your teaching: An introduction to practitioner research, reflective practice and evidence-informed practice
Marilyn Leask and Tony Liversidge
5.5 Closing the achievement gap: Self-regulation and personalising learning
Carrie Winstanley
5.6 Neuroeducation: Classroom practice and the brain
Paul Howard-Jones
5.7 Developing critical thinking
Hazel Bryan and Chris Carpenter
5.8 Creating a language-rich classroom
Annabel Watson and Debra Myhill
Unit 6 ASSESSMENT
6.1 In-school summative and minute-by-minute formative assessment in the classroom
Nikki Booth
6.2 External assessment and examinations
Cara McLaughlin
6.3 Using feedback and data effectively to move teaching and learning forward
Nikki Booth
Unit 7 THE SCHOOL, CURICULUM AND SOCIETY
7.1 Aims of education
Ruth Heilbronn, Janet Orchard and Graham Haydon
7.2 The secondary school curriculum
Shirley Lawes
7.3 Secondary schools in England: Governance, policy and curriculum
Shirley Lawes
7.4 Secondary schools in Northern Ireland: Governance, policy and curriculum
Paul McFlynn and Paul McQueen
7.5 Secondary schools in Scotland: Governance, policy and curriculum
Anna Beck
7.6 Secondary schools in Wales: Governance, policy and curriculum
Susan Lewis, David Grace and Susan Capel
Unit 8 YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
8.1 Getting your first post
Julia Lawrence and Susan Capel
8.2 Developing further as a teacher
Jeanne Keay
8.3 Accountability
Leora Cruddas
8.4 Developing as a professional
Caroline Daly and Clare Brooks
Unit 9 AND FINALLY
9.1 And finally
Marilyn Leask
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
References
Author index
Subject index
About the author
Susan Capel is an Emeritus Professor (Physical Education) at Brunel University, UK.
Marilyn Leask is Chief Editor of the MESHGUides initiative (www.meshguides.org) and visiting professor at the University of Winchester and De Montfort University, UK.
Sarah Younie is Professor of Education Innovation at De Montfort University, UK, and Chair of the Education Futures Collaboration charity.
Summary
For all undergraduate, postgraduate and school-based routes to qualified teacher status, Learning to Teach in the Secondary School is an essential introduction to the key skills and knowledge needed to become a secondary teacher.
