Preparing to Teach in Secondary Schools: A Student Teacher's Guide to Professional Issues in Secondary Education

Part 1:&nbsp;Becoming a teacher |&nbsp;<div><div>Learning to be a teacher;&nbsp;</div><div>The professional framework and professional values and practice;&nbsp;</div><div>Key issues, opportunities and challenges for new teachers</div><div><br></div><br><div>Part 2:&nbsp;Core professional competences |&nbsp;</div><div>Understanding how pupils learn: Theories of learning and intelligence;&nbsp;</div><div>Planning for learning;&nbsp;</div><div>Using differentiation to support learning;&nbsp;</div><div>Working with parents and support staff;&nbsp;</div><div>Communications in the classroom;&nbsp;</div><div>Using assessment for formative purposes;&nbsp;</div><div>Using assessment data to support pupil achievement;&nbsp;</div><div>Positive approaches to pupil behaviour;&nbsp;</div><div>Using digital tools to support learning</div><div><br></div><br><div>Part 3:&nbsp;Secondary schools and the curriculum |&nbsp;</div><div>What should we teach? Understanding the secondary curriculum;&nbsp;</div><div>Spiritual, moral and cultural development;&nbsp;</div><div>Raising attainment;&nbsp;</div><div>Literacy across the curriculum;&nbsp;</div><div>Numeracy and mathematics across the curriculum;&nbsp;</div><div>Personal, social, health and economic education;&nbsp;</div><div>14–19 curriculum reform</div><div><br></div><br><div>Part 4: Making school work for all: Every Child Matters, Safeguarding and the Inclusion Agenda |&nbsp;</div><div><div>Does every child matter? Education, social care and the emerging safeguarding agenda;&nbsp;</div></div></div><div>Special educational needs and inclusive schooling;&nbsp;</div><div>Schooling, ethnicity and English as an additional language;&nbsp;</div><div>Schooling and gender;&nbsp;</div><div>Supporting disadvantaged children to raise their attainment;&nbsp;</div><div>Pastoral care and the role of the tutor;&nbsp;</div><div>Government policy</div>