Learning to Teach in the Secondary School
Learning to Teach in the Secondary School
£55.00
GBPLearning to Teach in the Secondary School presents secondary teaching theory and practice within a contemporary, holistic framework that empowers pre-service teachers to become effective and reflective practitioners. This practical and engaging book includes many valuable teaching resources such as:
• practical examples and case studies based on personal teaching experiences in school systems, to encourage effective education intervention for the empowerment of secondary students
• questions and research topics to emphasise the importance of collaboration and to highlight opportunities for discussion within each chapter
• explicit instructional and behavioural strategies and guidance for pre-service teachers to implement in their classrooms.
Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its contributors, Learning to Teach in the Secondary School provides teachers with the specialist skills necessary to make a difference to the lives and outcomes of young people at a time of significant physical, social, emotional and cognitive development.
- Includes practical examples and case studies based on personal teaching experiences in school systems, to encourage effective education intervention for the empowerment of secondary students
- Questions and research topics are provided to emphasise the importance of collaboration and to highlight opportunities for discussion within each chapter
- Authors are from diverse backgrounds with different areas of experience and expertise, led by Dr Noelene Weatherby-Fell
Product details
September 2015Paperback
9781107461802
309 pages
249 × 176 × 15 mm
0.58kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Welcome to the world of secondary teaching and pedagogy Tania L. Aspland
- 2. Teacher professional resilience: thriving not just surviving Susan Beltman
- 3. The developing child and adolescent: implications for learning Karen Swabey
- 4. Transition from primary to secondary school: middle schooling concepts Peter Hudson and Sue Hudson
- 5. Effective and reflective teaching practice Jennifer M. Gore
- 6. The Australian Curriculum: secondary considerations Val Thomas
- 7. Planning to pedagogy: a tool kit for the beginning teacher Noelene Weatherby-Fell
- 8. Managing student behaviour: individual and group contexts Wendy Moran
- 9. Inclusive classrooms and differentiation Jane Jarvis
- 10. Developing a professional sensibility to 'the digital' in secondary classrooms Chris Bigum and Leonie Rowan
- 11. Aboriginal education: more than adding different perspectives Nerida Blair
- 12. Approaching disadvantage with 'care' Nicoli Humphry
- 13. Professional experience in schools Rosie Le Cornu
- 14. The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, and professionalism Graeme Hall and Noelene Weatherby-Fell
- 15. Managing the complex interconnection of practice: professional portfolios as a technology for teacher reflection Jo-Anne Reid.
