Learning to Teach in the Secondary School

A Companion to School Experience
10. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-22734-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 570 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series

This market leading text for beginning teachers on all undergraduate, postgraduate and school-based routes to qualified teacher status provides an essential introduction to the key skills and knowledge needed to become a successful teacher. Offering advice on all aspects of teaching and learning, this tenth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the field and covers key new topics including artificial intelligence (AI), online pedagogies and working with your mentor. There are also expanded units on diversity and inclusion, teacher wellbeing and professional development.

The text includes a wealth of examples, resources and tasks to support you in successfully applying theory to practice, and in critically reflecting on and analysing your practice to maximise pupil learning. The wide range of pedagogical features supports both school- and university-based work up to Master’s level. Written by experts in the field, the 42 concise units are underpinned by evidence-informed practice and focus on what you need to know to thrive in the classroom, including:

- lesson planning;

- curriculum;

- managing behaviour;

- digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI);

- effective communication with pupils;

- how pupils learn, cognitive development, educational neuroscience;

- assessment, marking and feedback;

- neurodivergent pupils, diversity and inclusion;

- special educational needs and disabilities (SEND);

- building resilience, managing stress, workload and time;

- applying for jobs and early career development.

The book is extended and enhanced with digital resources available at routledgelearning.com/learningtoteach. These include downloadable chapter-specific resources, links to useful websites, interactive quizzes and flashcards. You’ll also find animated explainer videos and author-created videos, as well as specific online-only units covering England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Supported by the subject-specific titles in the Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School and A Practical Guide to Teaching Subjects in the Secondary School Series, this book is an essential purchase for every aspiring secondary school teacher.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hidson, Elizabeth

Younie, Sarah

Lawrence, Julia

Booth, Nikki

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Weiterführende Schulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Becoming a teacher

1.1 What do teachers do? (Linda la Velle and Stephen Newman)

1.2 Student teachers’ roles and responsibilities (Moira Hulme and Rachel O’ Sullivan)

1.3 Using digital technologies for professional purposes (Andrew Csizmadia and Andy Connell)

2. Beginning to teach
2.1 Reading classrooms: How to maximise learning from classroom observation (Ana Redondo)
2.2 Schemes of work, units of work and lesson planning (Sophy Bassett-Dubsky, Mark Bowler
Bethan Coles)
2.3 Taking responsibility for the whole class (Helen Carr)

2.4 Working with your mentor (Susan Lewis)
3. Classroom interactions and managing pupils
3.1 Communicating with pupils (Paula Zwozdiak-Myers)

3.2 Motivating pupils (Ros Mclellan)

3.3 Managing classroom behaviour: adopting a positive response (Philip Garner)

3.4 Primary-Secondary transitions (Divya Jindal-Snape)

4. Meeting individual differences

4.1 Pupil grouping options, progression and adaptive teaching

4.2 Adolescence, health and wellbeing (Sophie-Lauren McPhee)
4.3 Cognitive development (Paul Davies)
4.4 Responding to diversity (Helen Bowhay)
4.5 Values education – discussion and deliberation (Ruth Heilbronn)
4.6 An introduction to inclusion, special educational needs and disability (Sana Ritzvi and Helen Knowles)
5. Helping pupils learn
5.1 Ways pupils learn (Diana Burton)
5.2 Active larning (Chris Harris)
5.3 Teaching styles (Martin Fautley)

5.4 Improving your teaching (Helen Lewis and Tony Liversidge)
5.5 Closing the achievement gap: self-regulation and personalising learning (Carrie Winstanley)
5.6 Neuroeducation: Classroom practice and the brain (Paul Howard-Jones)
5.7 Developing critical thinking (Chris Bolton)
5.8 Creating a language-rich classroom (Annabel Watson and Ruth Newman)
5.9 Pedagogy: the science of teaching (Liz Hidson and Andrew Carr)

6. Assessment
6.1 Summative and formative assessment in the classroom (Nikki Booth)
6.2 External assessment and examinations (Cara Mcloughlin)
6.3 Marking and using data (Nikki Booth)

7. The school, curriculum and society
7.1 Aims of education (Ruth Heilbronn)

7.2 The secondary school curriculum (Brian Lightman)

7.3 Secondary schools in England (Brian Lightman)
7.4 Secondary schools in Northern Ireland (Paul Mcflynn & Mairead Davidson & Clare Mcauley)

7.5 Secondary schools in Scotland (Anna Beck)

7.6 Secondary schools in Wales (Tom Crick)

8. Your professional development
8.1 Getting your first post (Julia Lawrence)

8.2 Developing your resilience (Maddy Findon & Sue Johnston-Wilder)

8.3 Developing further as a teacher (Polly Clegg)

8.4 Accountability (Deb Outhwaite)

9. And Finally (Marilyn Leask)

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Younie is Professor of Education Innovation at De Montfort University and co-founder of the Education Futures Collaboration Charity and the MESHGuides research summaries initiative.

Elizabeth Hidson is a Senior Lecturer in Professional Development and International Education at the University of Sunderland.

Julia Lawrence is Assistant Professor at the School of Communities and Education, Northumbria University, Newcastle.

Nikki Booth is currently a part-time research assistant for the Birmingham Music Education Research Group (BMERG) at Birmingham City University.