Becoming a Teacher

Issues in Secondary Teaching
2 Rev ed
ISBN: 978-0-335-20861-6
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

"This is a valuable book for the beginning teacher. It provides a sensible blend of practical and pragmatic chapters, alongside more philosophical and theoretical contributions" Education Review - What are the key issues that affect classroom teachers?
- What can research tell us about schooling?
- What are the arguments for and against specific educational issues?The second edition of this highly successful text addresses these important educational questions. Written for the benefit of student teachers and teachers at the beginning of their careers, the book is designed to represent a coherent, challenging and thoughtful set of articles that will help readers to firm up their own ideas and give a factual basis for discussion and debate. New teachers need accessible, readable and accurate information about educational issues. They need pithy accounts of the research findings relating to particular issues and they need to be able to see how their ideas and feelings compare with those of other people. Some of them will want answers to their questions - others will be more interested in understanding why some questions are more important than others. The book is written in a user-friendly style - providing ideas, arguments and enough references to help those interested in following-up the issues. This second edition contains new chapters on school and teacher quality, inspection, literacy, citizenship, parents and schooling, and social justice whilst all other chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dillon, Justin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Section 1: First thoughts
Developing as a student teacher
Better read
theorising the teacher!
Section 2: Policy, society and schooling
Ideology, evidence and the raising of standards
Values and schooling
School and teacher quality
problem-solving and critical perspectives
Reforming teachers and their work
Inspection
Social justice in schools
Parents and schooling
Excellence in cities
Teachers and the law
Section 3: Teaching and learning
Adolescence
Learning in the classroom
Managing effective classrooms
Differentiation in theory and practice
Setting, streaming and mixed ability teaching
Assessing pupils
Special educational needs
becoming more inclusive
English as an additional language
challenges of language and identity in the multilingual and multiethnic classroom
Section 4: Across the curriculum
Literacy
Citizenship
what does it mean to be a good citizen?
Spirituality
Healthy schools
health education and health promotion for the 21st Century
Information and communications technology
policy and practice
14-19 education
broadening the curriculum
Beyond the subject curriculum
the form tutor's role
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dillon, Justin
Justin Dillon is Professor of Science and Environmental Education and Head of the Science and Technology Education Group at King's College London. He taught science in London schools for 10 years before joining King's in 1989. He has carried out research into children's ideas about science, science teachers' professional development needs and wants and learning beyond the classroom. He is President of the European Science Education Research Association and an editor of the International Journal of Science Education.