Learning to Teach in the Secondary School (8^th Ed.) A Companion to School Experience Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series

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. Underpinned by evidence-informed practice and focussing on what you need to know to thrive in the classroom, the eighth edition is fully updated in light of changes in the field, covers new topics and provides additional guidance on topics such as developing your resilience, using digital technologies, closing the achievement gap and using data to inform your teaching and pupil learning.

The text includes a wealth of examples and tasks to demonstrate how to successfully apply theory to practice and how to critically reflect on and analyse your practice to maximise pupil learning. The wide range of pedagogical features support both school and university-based work up to Masters level. Written by experts in the field, the 37 concise units create unit-by-unit coverage that can be dipped into, offering guidance on all aspects of learning to teach including:

• Managing your workload
• Lesson planning
• Curriculum
• Motivating pupils
• Promoting behaviour for learning
• Assessment, marking and feedback
• Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
• Applying for jobs, developing as a professional and networking

Learning to Teach in the Secondary School provides practical help and guidance for many of the situations and potential challenges you are faced with in school. The text is extended by a companion website which includes additional information as well as specific units covering England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Supported by the subject-specific titles in the Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series, it is an essential purchase for every aspiring secondary school teacher.

UNIT 1.1 BECOMING A TEACHER: WHAT DO TEACHERS DO?

Linda la Velle and Marilyn Leask

1.2 Student teachers’ roles and responsibilities

Susan Capel

UNIT 1.3: DEVELOPING YOUR RESILIENCE: MANAGING STRESS, WORKLOAD AND TIME

Maddy Findon and Sue Johnston-Wilder

UNIT 1.4 USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

Andrew Csizmadia and Sarah Younie

UNIT 2.1 READING CLASSROOMS: How to maximise learning from classroom observation

Ana Redondo

UNIT 2.2 SCHEMES OF WORK, UNITS OF WORK AND LESSON PLANNING

Sophy Bassett, Mark Bowler and Angela Newton

UNIT 2.3 TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WHOLE CLASS

Michelle Lowe and Clyde Redfern

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

4.1 Pupil grouping, progression and differentiation

Alexandra Titchmarsh

UNIT 4.2 ADOLESCENCE, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

Ceri Magill and Barbara Walsh

UNIT 4.3 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Judy Ireson and Paul Davies

UNIT 4.4 RESPONDING TO DIVERSITY

Helen Bowhay and Stefanie Sullivan

UNIT 4.5 VALUES EDUCATION

Discussion and deliberation

Ruth Heilbronn

UNIT 4.6 AN INTRODUCTION TO INCLUSION, SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITY

Nick Peacey

UNIT 5.1 WAYS PUPILS LEARN

Diana Burton

UNIT 5.2 ACTIVE LEARNING

Michelle Lowe

Unit 5.3 TEACHING STYLES

Chris Carpenter and Hazel Bryan

UNIT 5.4 IMPROVING YOUR TEACHING: An introduction to practitioner research, reflective practice and evidence-informed practice

Marilyn Leask and Tony Liversidge

UNIT 5.5 CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP: SELF-REGULATION AND PERSONALISING LEARNING

Carrie Winstanley

UNIT 5.6 NEUROEDUCATION: Classroom Practice and the Brain

Paul Howard-Jones

UNIT 5.7 DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING

Hazel Bryan and Chris Carpenter

UNIT 5.8 CREATING A LANGUAGE-RICH CLASSROOM

Annabel Watson and Debra Myhill

UNIT 6.1 IN-SCHOOL SUMMATIVE AND MINUTE-BY-MINUTE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN THE CLASSROOM.

Nikki Booth

Unit 6.2 External assessment and examinations

UNIT 7.1 AIMS OF EDUCATION

Ruth Heilbronn, Janet Orchard and Graham Haydon

Unit 7.2 The Secondary School Curriculum

Shirley Lawes

8.1 Getting your first post

8.2 Developing further as a teacher

UNIT 8.3 ACCOUNTABILITY

9 And finally

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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.