Your Secondary School Placement Toolkit

John Keenan, Andy Hind

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English

Sage Publications Ltd
28 March 2025

Secondary schools; Teacher training

Teaching in secondary schools requires a professional mindset and the confidence to face challenging situations.

This highly practical and accessible book for all secondary initial teacher education trainees will help you to develop the knowledge and skills required to excel on your school placements.

With case studies from qualified teachers who have been through it all ahead of you, you will be guided through key issues in training to be a teacher: planning and teaching lessons, working with your school mentor, understanding how pupils learn, and discovering how schools really work.

John Keenan is Senior Lecturer in Education at Birmingham Newman University.

Andy Hind is Head of the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Warwick.

By: John Keenan, Andy Hind
Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 170mm,
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781529684568
ISBN 10: 1529684560
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 28 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Becoming part of the teaching profession 2. How schools work 3. Working with your mentor 4. Subject knowledge: being the expert in the room 5. What you need to know about the law, policy and regulation 6. Cognitive science 7. Running a lesson 8. Recognising and responding to diversity 9. Knowing and documenting progress 10. The complex nature of learning 11. Creating your professional identity 12. Looking towards the future 13. Classroom enquiry, critical engagement, and going beyond

Dr John Keenan taught English in secondary schools, sixth form and Further Education before moving to Higher Education, teaching at Leicester University, Coventry University, Worcester University and now Newman University. He has had a variety of roles including being lead tutor of Teach First English for the West Midlands, co-ordinator of an Advertising and Media degree and lead tutor of PGCE English. John also works as a supervisor for doctoral students and has a research focus on teacher education and Further Education. Dr Andy Hind worked as a science teacher in Leeds and Bradford before moving the University of Leeds as a researcher of science education. At the end of these projects Andy returned to secondary teaching as a Head of Science in a secondary school in Leeds and then moved on to work in Initial Teacher Education as a science tutor for both the Open University and Manchester University. Andy moved to Newman University in 2010 where he taught on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes before his current role as a Head of Secondary Teacher Education at Warwick University. He is also member of Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers and on national steering committees helping to define the future direction of teacher training.