Learning to teach in the secondary school - Susan Anne Capel

Learning to teach involves hard work and careful preparation. To become an effective teacher requires subject knowledge, an understanding of your pupils and how they learn and the confidence to respond to dynamic classroom situations. Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 6^th edition offers a comprehensive, in-depth and practical introduction to the skills needed to qualify as a teacher, and is designed to help you to develop those qualities that lead to good practice and a successful future in education.

With a focus on evidence-based practice and written by expert practitioners, 35 units cover key concepts and skills, including:

Managing behaviour to support learning
Ways pupils learn

Planning lessons and schemes of work
Motivating pupils

Assessment
Inclusion and special educational needs

Using ICT and digital technologies
Pupil grouping, progression and differentiation

Managing time, workload and stress
Getting your first teaching post

This fully updated 6^th edition includes five new units:

Primary-secondary transition
Developing critical thinking

Creating a language rich classroom
Education across the four home countries of the UK

UK education in an international context

The book contains many examples of how to analyse practice to ensure pupil learning is maximised. Activities and tasks in each unit offer opportunities for you to analyse your own learning and performance. Masters level tasks and annotated further readings respond to the requirements for teachers to engage in M level work.