Professional Issues in Secondary Teaching
Integrating Research into Secondary Teacher Training
Helen Scott editor Carey Philpott editor Carrie Mercier editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
Published:8th Feb '13
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This textbook guides aspiring secondary teachers on integrating research into their practice. Professional Issues in Secondary Teaching is essential for teacher training.
This textbook serves as an essential resource for those training to teach in secondary schools, emphasizing the integration of research into effective teaching practices. Professional Issues in Secondary Teaching is structured around professional studies modules, which are fundamental components of all teacher training programs. It addresses critical questions such as how to develop a teacher's identity and the ways in which engaging in research can enhance personal teaching practices.
To become a successful secondary educator, it is vital to grasp a broad spectrum of professional teaching issues. This includes practical elements like curriculum development and learning through classroom observation, along with significant conceptual themes such as critical reflection and the understanding of learning processes. The book tackles these topics while also covering various contemporary issues relevant to secondary education, ensuring that future teachers are well-prepared for the challenges they may face.
Professional Issues in Secondary Teaching highlights the necessity for student teachers to engage with research actively, which not only supports their professional growth but also enriches their teaching methodologies. It is tailored to support professional studies modules in secondary initial teacher education, including postgraduate and employment-based pathways, as well as early career teachers looking to refine their practice. The authors, including Carrie Mercier, Carey Philpott, and Helen Scott, bring extensive experience and insight into the field of education.
′This is one of the most readable texts I have come across in rencent times. This timely publication reinforces the need for critical reflection on classroom practice, and emphasises the essential need for an understanding of practice underpinned by research and theory, a truism seemingly forgotten by governments in recent times′
-Melanie Norman, University of Brighton
There is a useful, up-to-date, thumbnail account of how the curriculum in the UK has come to be what it is. Very good, big-picture preparatory reading for a would-be-teacher in the UK.
Informative & reader-friendly.
I will use this book as essential reading for course.
I like the issues presented in the form of questions, which represent beginning teachers′ practical concerns. All the issues derived from the contributors′ rich school experience, and are relevant to beginning teachers. Examining those issues from a positive perspective will prepare them for the reality about which they have limited knwoledge.
I like the structure of each chapter, pariticularly the points for reflection and case studies. They are more practical than theoretical and abstract concepts and prescriptive principles without any examples. That is what studnet teachers need.
The style of writing is easy-to-read. It can reduce student teachers′ resistance to academic reading. -- Dr Chunmei Yan * drupal *
A really good outlining of the core issues. Students have this extremley useful.
-- Mr Alastair Arnott * drupal *
This book tackles many of the more important issues NQTs will indeed face and need to reflect upon as they climb the ladder of standards into their teaching careers. -- Mr Neville Crouch * drupal *
This text is well laid out and accessible for the trainee teachers. It covers a number of interesting and highly relevant topics for trainee teachers. -- Mr Peter Kay * drupal *
Useful for those on any secondary teaching programme to support modules of study or school-based ITT. -- Mrs Catherine Carden * drupal *
This is a valuable text for challenging the thinking of beginning teachers, responding meaningfully to those who are asking important questions about the relevance of ITE to classroom practice. -- Mrs Julia Croft * drupal *
ISBN: 9781446207901
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 450g
248 pages