Learning to Teach in the Secondary School

Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its contributors, this text empowers pre-service teachers to become effective and reflective practitioners.

Noelene L. Weatherby-Fell (Author)

9781107461802, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 July 2015

309 pages
24.9 x 17.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.58 kg

Learning to Teach in the Secondary School presents secondary teaching theory and practice within a contemporary, holistic framework that empowers pre-service teachers to become effective and reflective practitioners. This practical and engaging book includes many valuable teaching resources such as: • practical examples and case studies based on personal teaching experiences in school systems, to encourage effective education intervention for the empowerment of secondary students • questions and research topics to emphasise the importance of collaboration and to highlight opportunities for discussion within each chapter • explicit instructional and behavioural strategies and guidance for pre-service teachers to implement in their classrooms. Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its contributors, Learning to Teach in the Secondary School provides teachers with the specialist skills necessary to make a difference to the lives and outcomes of young people at a time of significant physical, social, emotional and cognitive development.

1. Welcome to the world of secondary teaching and pedagogy Tania L. Aspland
2. Teacher professional resilience: thriving not just surviving Susan Beltman
3. The developing child and adolescent: implications for learning Karen Swabey
4. Transition from primary to secondary school: middle schooling concepts Peter Hudson and Sue Hudson
5. Effective and reflective teaching practice Jennifer M. Gore
6. The Australian Curriculum: secondary considerations Val Thomas
7. Planning to pedagogy: a tool kit for the beginning teacher Noelene Weatherby-Fell
8. Managing student behaviour: individual and group contexts Wendy Moran
9. Inclusive classrooms and differentiation Jane Jarvis
10. Developing a professional sensibility to 'the digital' in secondary classrooms Chris Bigum and Leonie Rowan
11. Aboriginal education: more than adding different perspectives Nerida Blair
12. Approaching disadvantage with 'care' Nicoli Humphry
13. Professional experience in schools Rosie Le Cornu
14. The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, and professionalism Graeme Hall and Noelene Weatherby-Fell
15. Managing the complex interconnection of practice: professional portfolios as a technology for teacher reflection Jo-Anne Reid.

Subject Areas: Teaching skills & techniques [JNT], Teaching staff [JNKH], Inclusive education / mainstreaming [JNFN], Education [JN]