Learning To Teach In The Secondary School

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.

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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

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References

Author index

Subject index