Preparing to Teach in Secondary Schools by Val Brooks

Preparing to Teach in Secondary Schools by Val Brooks

Review of the first edition:"An excellent introduction to all of the core professional issues that trainee teachers need to address during their training… a first port of call for all student teachers keen to understand the challenges involved in becoming a professional teacher in today's schools." Professor John Furlong, Director, Department of Educational Studies, Oxford University, UK.The new edition of this bestseller is the definitive guide for all trainee secondary school and newly qualified teachers. Using practical examples, it covers the range of core professional skills and concepts that all student teachers need to acquire, irrespective of their subject specialism or training route.Updated and revised throughout to take into account recent developments in teaching, the second edition covers topics such as Every Child Matters, Special Educational Needs, and ICT in the classroom, making it suitable for use by newly qualified teachers to support their early professional development.Informative, accessible and engaging, the book offers students:Use of examples and illustrations to make abstract or unfamiliar ideas concrete and meaningful An interactive approach whereby readers are invited to engage with the text and respond to it through a set of objectives, to be achieved by the end of the chapter Thought-provoking research to alert readers to fresh thinking and initiatives, which are at the cutting-edge of developments in the field Self-contained tasks to enable readers to complete them there and then

Val Brooks is an associate professor in the Institute of Education at Warwick University where she has been involved with three programmes of secondary initial teacher training: PGCE, Flexible Postgraduate Initial Teacher Training and the Graduate Teacher Programme. Previous to this, she taught English in the secondary sector. Ian Abbott is Deputy Director of the Institute of Education at Warwick University. He has been the co-ordinator of the PGCE Economics and Business Studies programme and a core professional studies tutor. Previous to this he taught Economics and Business Studies in schools and colleges. Liz Bills is a university lecturer at Oxford University. She teaches on the PGCE mathematics subject course as well the Professional Development Programme. She taught mathematics in secondary schools before becoming a university lecturer.

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ISBN 13	9780335225347
ISBN 10	0335225349
Titel	Preparing to Teach in Secondary Schools
Autor	Val Brooks
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Open University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-12-16
Seitenanzahl	384
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