Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School

Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School

Author: Jon Davison

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415840286

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Focused on the key skills needed to teach English at the secondary school level, this text covers a range of issues that include - use of new technology, reading, writing, speaking, listening, drama and the teaching of grammar.


Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School

Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School

Author: Jon Davison

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0415156777

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This forward-looking book combines theory and practice to present a broad introduction to the opportunities and challenges of teaching English in secondary school classrooms. Each chapter explains the background to current debates about teaching the subject and provides tasks, teaching ideas, and further reading to explore issues and ideas in relation to school experience. With reference to new legislation, the chapters suggest a range of approaches to the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening, drama, media study, information technology, language study, grammar, poetry, Shakespeare, GNVQ and A Level English Language and Literature. Learning to Teach English in the Secondary Schooloffers principles and practical examples of teaching and learning in the context of the end of the twentieth century when new notions of literacy compete with the demands of national assessment. Taking as its starting point the changing ideologies of English as a subject, the text addresses questions about the nature of teacher education. It raises issues concerning competence-based courses, working with a mentor in school and monitoring the development of a student teacher. Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School series, edited by Sue Capel, Tony Turner and Marilyn Leask.


Teaching English in Secondary Schools

Teaching English in Secondary Schools

Author: John Gordon

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1473918421

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This book is an indispensable guide for anyone training to become a secondary English teacher. It provides an overview of the main topics taught in schools, informed by good teaching practice drawn from the classroom and supported by research and theory, and engages with the requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum for England. Each chapter is based around a ‘lesson feedback’ case study informed by real classroom observations combined with research findings to explore and analyse what underpins high quality English teaching. Coverage includes: · Encouraging a love of reading in your classroom · How to teach effective writing for pleasure and for information · Developing students’ grammar, vocabulary and spoken English · Inspiring teaching using drama, poetry and Shakespeare · Intelligent use of media and new literacies in teaching This is essential reading on all secondary English initial teacher education courses, including school-based (SCITT, School Direct, Teach First), university-based (PGCE) and employment-based routes into teaching.


A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School

A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School

Author: ANNABEL WATSON

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1000483266

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A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School offers straightforward advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary English classroom. Covering all aspects of English teaching, it is designed for you to dip in and out of, and enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching, your programme or pupils’ learning. Fully updated to reflect what student and early career teachers see and experience when they enter the classroom, the second edition supports trainee and practicing teachers to teach in imaginative and creative ways to promote learning in English. Packed with ideas, resources, practical teaching activities and underpinned by the latest research into how children learn, the book examines the core areas of reading, writing and spoken English including: • Plays, poetry, non-fiction, myths and legends, drama and Shakespeare • Developing writing • Creative grammar • Talk and classroom dialogue • Media and digital writing • English across the curriculum • Well-being through writing • Literature and language post-16. Including tools to support critical reflection, A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School is an essential companion for all training and newly qualified English teachers.


Learning to Teach Using ICT in the Secondary School

Learning to Teach Using ICT in the Secondary School

Author: Marilyn Leask

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415516525

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Learning to Teach Using ICT in the Secondary School provides a starting point for teachers of all subjects, exploring the possibilities that ICT offers to schools, teachers and pupils. It offers practical tried-and-tested examples, advice and guidance and covers a range of issues and topics essential for teachers using ICT to improve teaching and learning in their subject.


Learning to Teach Art and Design In the Secondary School

Learning to Teach Art and Design In the Secondary School

Author: Nicholas Addison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-07

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1134702418

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Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School advocates art, craft and design as useful, critical, transforming, and therefore fundamental to a plural society. It offers a conceptual and practical framework for understanding the diverse nature of art and design in education at KS3 and the 14-19 curriculum. It provides support and guidance for learning and teaching in art and design, suggesting strategies to motivate and engage pupils in making, discussing and evaluating visual and material culture. With reference to current debates Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School explores a range of approaches to teaching and learning, it raises issues, questions orthodoxies and identifies new directions. The chapters examine: ways of learning planning and resourcing attitudes to making critical studies values and critical pedagogy. The book is designed to provide underpinning theory and address issues for student teachers on PGCE and initial teacher education courses in Art and Design. It will also be of relevance and value to teachers in school with designated responsibility for supervision.


Learning to Teach Citizenship in the Secondary School

Learning to Teach Citizenship in the Secondary School

Author: Liam Gearon

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0415276748

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Citizenship is the newest addition to the National Curriculum. For students training to teach citizenship as a first or second subject, this practical text is underpinned by a sound theoretical background.


Teaching English

Teaching English

Author: Andrew Goodwyn

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780415335270

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This authoritative and comprehensive text provides a source of advice and guidance for trainee and practising English teachers at both primary and secondary level.


Teaching the Content Areas to English Language Learners in Secondary Schools

Teaching the Content Areas to English Language Learners in Secondary Schools

Author: Luciana C. de Oliveira

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-17

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 3030022455

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This practitioner-based book provides different approaches for reaching an increasing population in today’s schools - English language learners (ELLs). The recent development and adoption of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (CCSS-ELA/Literacy), the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, the C3 Framework, and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) highlight the role that teachers have in developing discipline-specific competencies. This requires new and innovative approaches for teaching the content areas to all students. The book begins with an introduction that contextualizes the chapters in which the editors highlight transdisciplinary theories and approaches that cut across content areas. In addition, the editors include a table that provides a matrix of how strategies and theories map across the chapters. The four sections of the book represent the following content areas: English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. This book offers practical guidance that is grounded in relevant theory and research and offers teachers suggestions on how to use the approaches described.


Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School

Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School

Author: Jon Davison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0429016913

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Fully updated to reflect changes in teacher education and the curriculum, the Fifth Edition of Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School explores the background to debates about teaching the subject, alongside tasks, teaching ideas and further reading to expand upon issues and ideas raised in the book. Including chapters on planning, changes to the assessment system, language teaching, and cross-curricular aspects of secondary teaching, this new edition features: changes in policy and practice, including the most recent GCSE reforms; a new chapter on 'Media literacy in English'; a consideration of modern digital technology and how it underpins good practice in all areas of English teaching and learning; and cross-referencing to guidance on assessment and well-being and resilience in the core text Learning to Teach in the Secondary School. A key text for all student teachers, Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School combines theory and practice to present a comprehensive introduction to the opportunities and challenges of teaching English in the secondary school.