ABSTRACT

A Guide to Teaching Practice is the major standard text for all students on initial teacher training courses in the UK.
Authoritative yet accessible, it covers the important basic skills and issues that students need to consider during their practice, such as planning, classroom organization, behaviour management and assessment. The book's focus on the quality of teaching and learning and consideration of the latest regulations and guidelines ensures that it fits comfortably within TTA and OfSTED frameworks.
In addition, comprehensively revised and fully updated, this fifth edition features brand new chapters on the foundation stage, legal issues, learning and teaching and using ICT in the classroom, as well as new material on numeracy, literacy, children's rights, progress files and gifted and talented children.
This book is the most respected and widely used textbook for initial teacher training courses and will be an essential resource for any student teacher.

part |2 pages

PART I SOME PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING AND LEARNING

chapter 2|15 pages

Teacher Training Requirements

chapter 3|19 pages

The Curriculum

chapter 4|24 pages

Information and Communications Technology

chapter 5|21 pages

Legal Issues

part |2 pages

PART II: PREPARATION AND PLANNING

chapter 6|12 pages

The Preliminary Visit

chapter 8|51 pages

Beginning Curriculum Planning

part |2 pages

PART III: PRACTISING TEACHING

chapter 9|28 pages

Learning and Teaching

chapter 10|41 pages

Early Years and Primary Teaching

chapter 11|17 pages

Secondary Teaching

chapter 12|25 pages

Language in Classrooms

chapter 13|39 pages

Inclusion, Equal Opportunities and Diversity

chapter 14|54 pages

Managing Behaviour in the Classroom

part |2 pages

PART IV: ASSESSMENT, RECORD KEEPING AND REPORT WRITING

chapter 15|54 pages

Assessment

chapter 16|19 pages

Record Keeping and Report Writing