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Secondary Education Reflective Reader
Series:
Achieving QTS Series
Achieving QTS Series
Other Titles in:
Secondary Professional Studies
Secondary Professional Studies
August 2010 | 208 pages | Learning Matters
This reflective reader looks at key themes and topical debates in secondary education using extracts and writings to exemplify different perspectives. It examines themes such as establishing teaching identity, approaches to teaching and learning and classroom practice. It gives advice on embedding assessment of pupil progress into teaching and how to use creativity as a way of teaching and learning. This text provides a model approach to the integration of theory and practice through learning from the analysis of research literature and applying this learning to the role of classroom teacher.
Introduction
Theme 1: Starting your teaching: identity, subject and pedagogy
- Establishing your teacher identity
- Teaching and learning
- Developing your classroom practice
Theme 2: Developing your teaching: some next steps
- Embedding assessment for learning
- Choosing and using technology for teaching and learning
- Personalisation and personalised learning
Theme 3: Your future teaching practice
Creativity as a way of teaching and learning
Enriching collaborations
Moving onwards
"The selection of readings is well targeted and provides students with a very useful digest as a starting point from which to develop out their own programmes of reading. It facilitates the introduction of a range of relevant issues and concepts." (Lecturer, Brunel University)
useful as suplementary reading
Department of Education, Newman University College
April 19, 2012
Excellent text and very uesful for PGCE secondary
The School of Education and Lifelong Learning, Exeter University
March 6, 2012