Description

Reflective Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School

Informed teaching is built upon a clear understanding of a wide range of professional issues.  Reflective Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School offers a comprehensive overview of core teaching topics for professional studies modules on secondary initial teacher education courses.
Offering a critically engaged examination of practical and theoretical topics to encourage a deeper reflection on what underpins good teaching practice, this second edition provides a contemporary introduction to secondary education.
New to this edition:

• A new chapter on diversity, social justice and global issues in teaching
• A new chapter on pastoral and tutorial roles
• Masters-level critical reading tasks in every chapter
• Awareness of recent developments in education policy

This is indispensable reading for anyone training to teach in secondary education including postgraduate (PGCE, SCITT) and school-based routes into teaching.

Editor
Sue Dymoke is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Leicester where she leads the Secondary English PGCE course and the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) programme.

Contributors
Jennifer Harrison was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and leader of the PGCE Secondary Science course until her retirement. She co-edited the first edition of Reflective Teaching and Learning.

Joan Smith is a Lecturer in Education and has co-ordinated the Secondary PGCE programme, leading the core Teacher Development Course.  Joan taught in urban, 11-18 comprehensive schools for almost 20 years. 

Ingrid Spencer is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Leicester where she works on the Secondary PGCE English/English with Media Studies and the Primary PGCE English and Primary TeachFirst programmes.

Chris Wilkins is a Senior Lecturer in Education. He was Head of Primary PGCE for five years, and has served as Director of Teacher Education at the University of Leicester for three years.

Phil Wood has been Programme leader of the PGCE Secondary course at the University of Leicester and coordinates the PGCE Secondary Geography programme. He also leads the Pedagogy Pathway specialism on the Masters in International Education and supervises doctoral students.