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Your Teacher Training Companion: Essential Skills and Knowledge for Very Busy
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Your Teacher Training Companion: Essential Skills and Knowledge for Very Busy Trainees Paperback - 2015

by Jim McGrath; Anthony Coles

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From the publisher

The second edition of Your Teacher Training Companion is your one-stop-shop for the essential knowledge and skills you need to pass your course with confidence. Guiding you through your time in school and your studies, it will ensure you develop both the practical teaching skills and academic skills required to become a successful teacher.

Written in an accessible, no-nonsense style, it succinctly covers the most important aspects of becoming a teacher, showing you how to balance the competing demands of teaching in school, your course and social life. It is illustrated throughout with the case study of a fellow trainee teacher, focusing on developing best practice and ways in which you can pass on key skills to your learners.

  • Essential topics covered include:
  • classroom management
  • effective lesson planning
  • teaching methods
  • learning theory
  • assessment and feedback
  • delivering a highly successful lesson
  • making time and space for your studies
  • improving your writing skills
  • writing assignments and building your teaching portfolio
  • planning and delivering an effective presentation

Designed for the very busy trainee on all routes to qualified teacher status, Your Teacher Training Companion, 2ed offers you the essential knowledge and skills you need to get the most out of your time with pupils, improve your study skills, successfully achieve qualified teacher statues and manage your early career as an NQT.

Details

  • Title Your Teacher Training Companion: Essential Skills and Knowledge for Very Busy Trainees
  • Author Jim McGrath; Anthony Coles
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 244
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2015
  • ISBN 9781138841970 / 1138841978
  • Category Education / Teaching
  • Library of Congress subjects Teachers - Training of - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015008176
  • Dewey Decimal Code 370.711

About the author

Jim McGrath was Course Director for the MA in Education and Professional Development at Birmingham City University, UK.

Anthony Coles was Reader in Post-Compulsory Education and Director of Continuous Professional Development for the Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences at Birmingham City University, UK.

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