Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Teaching

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Notes on Contributors xi
• Foreword to the Third Edition xvii
• Introduction xix
• Part 1 - First Thoughts 1
• 1: Developing as a Beginning Teacher 3
• 2: On Being a Teacher 12
• Part 2 - Policy, Society and Schooling 27
• 3: Education Policy and Schooling 29
• 4: Ideology, Evidence and the Raising of Standards 42
• 5: Values and Schooling 55
• 6: School Effectiveness and Improvement 69
• 7: Reforming Teachers and Their Work 85
• 8: Reflection, Inspection and Accountability 98
• 9: Social Justice in Schools: Engaging with Equality 112
• 10: Education, Schools and Cities 127
• 11: Teachers and the Law 139
• Part 3 - Teaching and Learning 151
• 12: Adolescence 153
• 13: Learning in and Outside of the Classroom 163
• 14: Classroom Management 175
• 15: Differentiation in Theory and Practice 187
• 16: Setting, Streaming and Mixed-Ability Teaching 201
• 17: Making Assessment Work in the Classroom 213
• 18: Aiming for Inclusion: Removing Barriers and Building Bridges 224
• 19: English as an Additional Language: Challenges of Language and Identity in the Multilingual and Multi-Ethnic Classroom 237
• Part 4 - Across the Curriculum 253
• 20: Literacy 255
• 21: Citizenship and Citizenship Education 267
• 22: Spiritual Education 280
• 23: The Importance of Teachers and Schools in Health Promotion 292
• 24: Education, the Environment and Sustainability 304
• 25: Information and Communications Technologies 318
• 26: 14–19 Education and the Great Divide 332
• 27: Beyond the Subject Curriculum: the Form Tutor's Role 344
• 28: What's Next? Cpd and the Whole School 357
• Index 367