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Becoming a Teacher

Issues in Secondary Teaching
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Teachers touch the lives of thousands of young people during their careers, inspiring and motivating learners to reach their maximum potential. In order to be able to do their jobs effectively, they need to understand the context within which they work and be able to reflect critically on what they do and why. If you are embarking on a career in teaching and the prospect of influencing the future through your work with young people is both exciting and daunting, then this is the book for you. The new edition is revised and updated throughout. It remains a unique and powerful combination of ideas, analysis, questions, answers and wisdom, with the combined professional experience of the editors and contributors providing a wealth of knowledge and opinion.Whilst the book's philosophy remains the same, the addition of three new chapters on 'education for sustainability', 'school effectiveness and improvement', and 'education policy' - combined with eleven new contributors - provides fresh perspectives, ideas and issues for discussion. The book is divided into four main sections: First thoughts; Policy, society and schooling; Teaching and learning; and, Across the curriculum. It provides a broader context in which education sits by addressing fundamental areas such as classroom management, adolescence and assessment for learning, alongside practical advice and key issues to consider. Finally, the authors provide information about roles and responsibilities in areas including personal, social and health education, information technology, literacy and citizenship. "Becoming a Teacher" is inspiring reading for prospective, trainee and new teachers, tutors and mentors.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Foreword to the 3rd edition Introduction Section 1: First thoughts Developing as a beginning teacher On being a teacher Section 2: Policy, society and schooling Education policy and schooling Ideology, evidence and the raising of standards Values and schooling School effectiveness and improvement Reforming teachers and their work Growing teachers: Inspection, appraisal and the reflective practitioner Social justice in schools: engaging with equality Education, schools and cities Teachers and the law Section 3: Teaching and learning Adolescence Learning in and out of the classroom Classroom management Differentiation in theory and practice Setting, streaming and mixed ability teaching Assessment for learning Aiming for inclusion -- removing barriers and building bridges English as an Additional Language: challenges of language and identity in the multilingual and multiethnic classroom Section 4: Across the curriculum Literacy Citizenship and citizenship education Spiritual education Personal, Social and Health Education Education, the environment and sustainability Information and communications technologies 14-19 education and the great divide Beyond the subject curriculum: the form tutor's role What's next? CPD and the whole school

Author Biography

Justin Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Science and Environmental Education at King's College London. Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education at King's College London.
Release date Australia
June 1st, 2007
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Illustrations
black & white tables, figures
Imprint
Open University Press
Pages
392
Publisher
Open University Press
Dimensions
178x247x28
ISBN-13
9780335221455
Product ID
3758700

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