Your Secondary School Direct Toolkit
- John Keenan - Newman University, UK
- Andy Hind - Warwick University, UK
March 2023 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Teaching in secondary schools requires a professional mindset, a range of skills and the confidence to face challenging situations.
This highly practical and accessible book for all secondary School Direct trainees will give you the building blocks of knowledge and skill that all teachers need. It offers space to question what happens in school and advice about how to make sense of it.
With examples from students who have done it all ahead of you, you will be guided through key issues faced while training to be a teacher: wellbeing, managing classroom behaviour, handling the workload, lesson planning, adapting your teaching and assessing learning, and more.
Key features include:Reflections to help you think deeper about aspects of your practice
Action boxes with practical advice on how to further develop your teaching
Advice on further study
John Keenan is Senior Lecturer in Secondary Education at Newman University.
Andy Hind is Head of Secondary Teacher Education at the University of Warwick.
This highly practical and accessible book for all secondary School Direct trainees will give you the building blocks of knowledge and skill that all teachers need. It offers space to question what happens in school and advice about how to make sense of it.
With examples from students who have done it all ahead of you, you will be guided through key issues faced while training to be a teacher: wellbeing, managing classroom behaviour, handling the workload, lesson planning, adapting your teaching and assessing learning, and more.
Key features include:
John Keenan is Senior Lecturer in Secondary Education at Newman University.
Andy Hind is Head of Secondary Teacher Education at the University of Warwick.
Chapter 1: The school direct training route
Chapter 2: Wellbeing
Chapter 3: Role
Chapter 4: Law
Chapter 5: Lesson
Chapter 6: Classroom management
Chapter 7: Adaptive teaching
Chapter 8: Assessment
Chapter 9: Literacy and numeracy
Chapter 10: Parents, carers and community
Chapter 11: Curriculum
Chapter 12: Extra-curricular
Chapter 13: Principled practice