Guide to teaching practice

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Guide to Teaching Practiceis 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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part 1 Some Perspectives on Teaching and Learning
• 1 A Background to Current Developments in Education
• 2 Teacher Training Requirements
• 3 The Whole Curriculum and the National Curriculum
• 4 The Foundation Stage
• 5 Information and Communication Technology
• 6 Legal Issues
• Part 2 Preparation and Planning
• 7 The Preliminary Visit
• 8 Aims, Objectives and Intended Learning Outcomes
• 9 Beginning Curriculum Planning
• Part 3 Practising Teaching
• 10 Learning and Teaching
• 11 Primary Teaching
• 12 Secondary Teaching
• 13 Language in Classrooms
• 14 Inclusion, Equal Opportunities and Diversity
• 15 Managing Behaviour in the Classroom
• Part 4 Assessment, Record Keeping and Progress Files
• 16 Assessment
• 17 Record Keeping and Report Writing
• 18 Progress Files