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Becoming a teacher : issues in secondary teaching

edited by Justin Dillon and Meg Maguire

Open University Press, 1997

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes index

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Description

Providing a clear overview of topics affecting new teachers, this volume covers: contemporary educational policy and practice; salient issues in schools today; concerns of new teachers - such as adolescence, language and class management; and special educational needs and vocational training.

Table of Contents

  • Section 1 A basic framework
  • developing as a student teacher
  • teaching in a new ERA
  • values and schooling
  • teacher education - looking back in anger
  • teachers and the law. Section 2 Social and political issues
  • ideology, evidence and the raising of standards
  • diversity and social justice
  • multicultural matters
  • understanding the urban experience - inner city schooling. Section 3 Teaching and learning
  • adolescence
  • learning in the classroom
  • language, thought and learning
  • classroom management and organisation
  • differentiation in theory and practice
  • setting, streaming and mixed ability teaching
  • assessing pupils. Section 4 The whole curriculum
  • educating the spirit
  • teaching for health - health education and health promotion in schools
  • information technology - policy and practice
  • vocational education in schools
  • special educational needs - inclusion, IT and indecision
  • beyond the subject curriculum - the form tutor's role
  • epilogue
  • better read - theorizing the teacher!

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