This practical guide offers valuable support for student-teachers and teachers in their early professional development. Divided into three sections, it covers: key pedagogical issues and planning; developing key skills, knowledge and understanding; and broadening your perspective. Teaching is rapidly becoming a more research and evidence-informed profession and the materials in this book are specifically designed to support developments in the (pedagogical) knowledge base in teaching.
This book is designed to help student teachers of physical education to feel comfortable and secure in developing the basic skills needed to be an effective teacher and to understand some of the essential background and issues of teaching physical education. It successfully covers practice and theory, and includes activities and further reading.
At a time when school-based English is becoming reductive and mechanistic, the authors of this book reconsider the fundamental philosophy of English teaching, evaluate current practice and offer a practical framework for new approaches to teaching this important subject. The authors draw on recent initiatives in the area, including the National Literacy Strategy, but offer also wider perspectives on the formation and development of both English and English teaching in a modern society. This will help teachers develop both a personal philosophy and a critical perspective on the various traditions of English teaching as well as on current initiatives and reforms. The book includes: * Provocative quotations from writers, artists and thinkers * Responses to key figures in modern educational thought * Exploration and development of the principle areas, illuminating key issues, tensions and opportunities * Practical possibilities for classroom practice The Art of Teaching Secondary English is a practical and accessible resource for everyone involved in English teaching.
