Learning to Teach in the Secondary School A Companion to School Experience

1. BECOMING A TEACHER, 1.1. What do teachers do?, 1.2. Beginning teachers' roles and responsibilities, 1.3. Developing your resilience: Managing stress, workload and time, 1.4. Using digital technologies for professional practice, 2. BEGINNING TO TEACH, 2.1. Reading classrooms: How to maximise learning from classroom observation, 2.2. Schemes of learning, units of learning and lesson planning, 2.3. Taking responsibility for the whole class, 2.4. Working effectively with your mentor, 3. CLASSROOM INTERACTIONS AND MANAGING PUPILS, 3.1. Communicating with pupils, 3.2. Motivating pupils, 3.3. Managing classroom behaviour: Adopting a positive approach, 3.4. Conceptualising and theorising primary-secondary transitions, 4. MEETING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 4.1. Pupil grouping, progression and adaptive teaching, 4.2. Adolescence, health and wellbeing, 4.3. Cognitive development, 4.4. Responding to diversity, 4.5. Values education - discussion and deliberation, 4.6. An introduction to inclusion, special educational needs and disability, 5. HELPING PUPILS LEARN, 5.1. Ways pupils learn, 5.2. Active learning, 5.3 Teaching styles, 5.4. Improving your teaching: An introduction to practitioner research, reflective practice and evidence-informed practice, 5.5. Closing the achievement gap: Self-regulation and personalising learning, 5.6. Educational neuroscience: Classroom practice and the brain, 5.7. Developing critical thinking, 5.8. Creating a language-rich classroom, 5.9. Pedagogy - the science, craft and performance of teaching, 6. ASSESSMENT, 6.1. Developing formative assessment practice for high-impact teaching, 6.2. External assessment and examinations, 6.3. Using assessment data effectively: making better decisions for teaching and learning, 7. THE SCHOOL, CURRICULUM AND SOCIETY, 7.1. Aims of education, 7.2. The secondary school curriculum, 7.3. Secondary schools in England: governance, policy and curriculum, 7.4. Secondary schools in Northern Ireland: governance, policy and curriculum, 7.5. Secondary schools in Scotland: the policy landscape and drivers of school reform, 7.6. Secondary schools in Wales: governance, policy and curriculum. 8. YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 8.1. Getting your first post, 8.2. Developing further as a teacher, 8.3. Accountability, 9. AND FINALLY