Successful Teaching Placement: Primary and Early Years (Achieving QTS Practical Handbooks Series)

Successful Teaching Placement: Primary and Early Years (Achieving QTS Practical Handbooks Series)

by Jane A Medwell (Author)

Synopsis

Full of practical help and guidance, this is a must have for primary trainees on school experience, whether they are in a school-based or university-based teacher training programme. It begins by helping trainees to plan their own journey through training and beyond. Taking control of their own training in this way supports student teachers to approach the course with confidence, and secure their first teaching job. The book provides guidance on: * adapting to working in school * observing, planning and evaluating in school * teaching on placement * assessing, monitoring and reporting on children's progress * self-evaluation and how to pre-empt and resolve issues * securing the first teaching job and succeeding in the NQT year For student teachers, the experience of school-based training is exciting but also challenging - this book supports them throughout and prepares them for the journey ahead.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Learning Matters
Published: 24 Apr 2007

ISBN 10: 1844450910
ISBN 13: 9781844450916

Media Reviews
This is the best generic teaching placement book that I have seen. PGCE Primary Leader, Manchester Metropolitan University
Author Bio
Jane Medwell taught in primary schools in Cardiff and South Devon, before moving into teacher education. She has lectured at the Universities of Cardiff, Plymouth and the College of St Mark and St John, and is currently Director of Teacher Education and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research and writing has covered areas such as the teaching of writing and the use of electronic books to teach reading. More recently she has begun a major research programme exploring the teaching of handwriting, and has begun a unique programme of teacher education in primary Modern Foreign Languages. She is fluent in French and Russian, and is learning Chinese.