Your Secondary School Placement Toolkit

Dr John Keenan taught English in secondary schools, sixth form and Further Education before moving to Higher Education, teaching at Leicester University, Coventry University, Worcester University and now Newman University. He has had a variety of roles including being lead tutor of Teach First English for the West Midlands, co-ordinator of an Advertising and Media degree and lead tutor of PGCE English. John also works as a supervisor for doctoral students and has a research focus on teacher education and Further Education. Dr Andy Hind worked as a science teacher in Leeds and Bradford before moving the University of Leeds as a researcher of science education. At the end of these projects Andy returned to secondary teaching as a Head of Science in a secondary school in Leeds and then moved on to work in Initial Teacher Education as a science tutor for both the Open University and Manchester University. Andy moved to Newman University in 2010 where he taught on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes before his current role as a Head of Secondary Teacher Education at Warwick University. He is also member of Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers and on national steering committees helping to define the future direction of teacher training.

1.Becoming part of the teaching profession
2.How schools work
3.Working with your mentor
4.Subject knowledge: being the expert in the room
5.What you need to know about the law, policy and regulation
6.Cognitive science
7.Running a lesson
8.Recognising and responding to diversity
9.Knowing and documenting progress
10.The complex nature of learning
11.Creating your professional identity
12.Looking towards the future
13.Classroom enquiry, critical engagement, and going beyond