Preparing to Teach in Secondary Schools: A Student Teacher's Guide to Professional Issues in Secondary Education: A Student Teacher’s Guide to Professional Issues in Secondary Education

by David Middlewood (Author), David Middlewood (Author), Ian Abbott (Author), Prue Huddleston (Author)

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  2019

  $27.12

  The fourth edition of this informative, accessible and intellectually-engaging teacher training book provides a definitive guide for trainee and newly-qualified secondary school teachers and their mentors.

  
  

  The book has been fully updated to reflect the many changes in policy and practice, including developments in the national curriculum, PSHEE and SEN provision. The latest edition also covers topics such as how pupils learn, assessment, planning classroom communication and developing positive approaches to pupil behaviour.

  
  

  The wide range of specialist contributors, each bringing extensive first-hand experience of teaching, cover the core professional skills and concepts that new secondary school teachers need to acquire, irrespective of their subject specialism or training route, while key features of the book are designed to encourage reader engagement:

  
  

  *Examples and illustrations from real classroom practice.

  *Details of current research.

  *Activities, case studies and scenarios.

  
  
  

  Ian Abbott is an associate professor at the University of Warwick's Centre for Education Studies, UK.

  Prue Huddleston is an emeritus professor at the University of Warwick's Centre for Education Studies, UK.

  David Middlewood is a research fellow at the University of Warwick's Centre for Education Studies, UK.