Becoming a Teacher : Issues in Secondary

Teachers touch the lives of thousands of young people during their careers, inspiring and motivating learners to reach their maximum potential. In order to be able to do their jobs effectively, they need to understand the context within which they work and be able to reflect critically on what they do and why. If you are embarking on a career in teaching and the prospect of influencing the future through your work with young people is both exciting and daunting, then this is the book for you.The new edition is revised and updated throughout. It remains a unique and powerful combination of ideas, analysis, questions, answers and wisdom, with the combined professional experience of the editors and contributors providing a wealth of knowledge and opinion. Whilst the book's philosophy remains the same, the addition of three new chapters on 'education for sustainability', 'school effectiveness and improvement', and 'education policy' - combined with eleven new contributors - provides fresh perspectives, ideas and issues for discussion. The book is divided into four main sections: First thoughts Policy, society and schooling Teaching and learning Across the curriculum It provides a broader context in which education sits by addressing fundamental areas such as classroom management, adolescence and assessment for learning, alongside practical advice and key issues to consider. Finally, the authors provide information about roles and responsibilities in areas including personal, social and health education, information technology, literacy and citizenship. Becoming a Teacher is inspiring reading for prospective, trainee and new teachers, tutors and mentors.

Justin Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Science and Environmental Education at Kingn++s College London.

..Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education at Kingn++s College London..

Notes on contributors	p. xi
Foreword to the third edition	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
First thoughts	p. 1
Developing as a beginning teacher	p. 3
On being a teacher	p. 12
Policy, society and schooling	p. 27
Education policy and schooling	p. 29
Ideology, evidence and the raising of standards	p. 42
Values and schooling	p. 55
School effectiveness and improvement	p. 69
Reforming teachers and their work	p. 85
Reflection, inspection and accountability	p. 98
Social justice in schools: engaging with equality	p. 112
Education, schools and cities	p. 127
Teachers and the law	p. 139
Teaching and learning	p. 151
Adolescence	p. 153
Learning in and outside of the classroom	p. 163
Classroom management	p. 175
Differentiation in theory and practice	p. 187
Setting, streaming and mixed-ability teaching	p. 201
Making assessment work in the classroom	p. 213
Aiming for inclusion: removing barriers and building bridges	p. 224
English as an Additional Language: challenges of language and identity in the mutilingual and multi-ethnic classroom	p. 237
Across the curriculum	p. 253
Literacy	p. 255
Citizenship and citizenship education	p. 267
Spiritual education	p. 280
The importance of teachers and schools in health promotion	p. 292
Education, the environment and sustainability	p. 304
Information and communications technologies	p. 318
14-19 education and the great divide	p. 332
Beyond the subject curriculum: the form tutor's role	p. 344
What's next? CPD and the whole school	p. 357
Index	p. 367
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