Teaching English

Reflective practice is at the heart of effective teaching, and this book helps you develop into a reflective teacher of English. Everything you need is here: guidance on developing your analysis and self-evaluation skills, the knowledge of what you are trying to achieve and why, and examples of how experienced teachers deliver successful lessons. The book shows you how to plan lessons, how to make good use of resources and how to assess pupils' progress effectively. Each chapter contains points for reflection, which encourage you to break off from your reading and think about the challenging questions that you face as a new teacher.The book comes with access to a companion website where you will find: videos of real lessons so you can see the skills discussed in the text in action; links to a range of sites that provide useful additional support; and, extra planning and resource materials. If you are training to teach English this book will help you to improve your classroom performance, by providing you with practical advice, but also by helping you to think in depth about the key issues. It also provides examples of the research evidence that is needed in academic work at Masters level, essential for anyone undertaking an M-level PGCE.

ISBN 1412948185   Pages 232 ISBN13 9781412948180 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd   Weight (grammes) 431 Imprint SAGE Publications Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Developing as a Reflective Secondary Teacher Publication date 18 Mar 2009   Height (mm) 232 Library of Congress LB1025.3   Width (mm) 186 DEWEY 428.00712   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

English Teachers and English Teaching - Phil Rigby Planning for Learning - Carol Evans More Than One Way to Teach a Lesson - Peter Woolnough Managing Learning, Managing Learners - Lynne Warham Monitoring Performance and Securing Progress - Alyson Midgley Teaching Different Pupils, Teaching Different Abilities - Phil Rigby Catering for an Assessment-Driven Curriculum - Peter Woolnough PSHE: Developing the Whole Child Through English - Carol Evans Using ICT in English - Lynne Warham Beyond ITT: What Next? - Carol Evans and Peter Woolnough

'My entry into the teaching profession would have been a whole lot easier if I'd had access to this text. This book is both informative and deeply sane. Intelligent, practical and eminently sensible, and it will help to guide many a beginning teacher through their first few years in the profession - English Drama Media

Peter Woolnough and colleagues have written a useful and well thought out guide to teaching English. It contains everything a trainee teacher needs and more. - Hannah

Peter Woolnough and colleagues have written a useful and well thought out guide to teaching English. It contains everything a trainee teacher needs and more. - Hannah



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