Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Education 6e

6th Edition
0335251676 · 9780335251674
Becoming a Teacher offers a broad context for understanding education, addressing issues such as social justice, educational ideology and teacher well-being and identity. The theoretical content is balanced with practical advice for the classroom on … Read More
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Part 1: Becoming a Teacher

1. Becoming a Teacher
2. On being a teacher
3. Teacher identity: Developing a positive professional identity in your teaching career
4. Teachers’ lives, careers and wellbeing: becoming and staying a teacher

Part 2: Policy, society and schooling 

5. Social justice in schools: engaging with equality 
6. Education Policy, Schools and Teachers 
7. Policy Shifts in Initial Teacher Education
8. Assessment policy, raising standards, league tables            
9. International assessments             
10. Schools and the Safeguarding Agenda             
11. School Leadership and Management         

Part 3: Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum

12. An introduction to learning theories and their application in educational practice          
13. Using Data in the Classroom        
14. Curriculum planning      
15. 14-19 Education: education and training in school and beyond      
16. Differentiation in theory and practice      
17. Classroom Assessment      
18. Managing student behaviour and engagement in the classroom  
19. Inclusive approaches to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities  
20. English as an Additional Language: Challenges of ethnicity, language and subject identity in the contemporary classroom   
21. Decolonizing the curriculum  
22. Environment, Sustainability and Education  
23. Literacy and numeracy across the curriculum

Part 4 Beyond the Classroom

24. Spaces for learning beyond the classroom
25. The pastoral role of the teacher
26. The role of the mentor in initial teacher education                                            
27. Approaches to teachers’ continuing professional development
28. Final Editorial Chapter
Becoming a Teacher offers a broad context for understanding education, addressing issues such as social justice, educational ideology and teacher well-being and identity. The theoretical content is balanced with practical advice for the classroom on topics such as assessment for learning, behaviour management, differentiation and curriculum planning.

Becoming a Teacher draws extensively on contemporary research and empirical evidence to support critical reflection about learning and teaching. Encouraging the reader to reflect on their own knowledge and beliefs, it explores some of the complex social and cultural dimensions that influence professional learning and practice. Becoming a Teacher’s approach chimes with the commonly accepted recognition that all those involved in the education of young people should take a research-informed approach towards classroom practice. The substantial rethinking that has informed this sixth edition means the Becoming a Teacher continues to provide invaluable support, guidance and insight for all those training to be secondary teachers and a rich resource for students undertaking undergraduate or postgraduate education studies programmes.