Your Secondary School Placement Toolkit

Teaching in secondary schools requires a professional mindset and the confidence to face challenging situations.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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 <em>really</em> work.<br/><br/><strong>John Keenan</strong> is Senior Lecturer in Education at Birmingham Newman University.<br/><strong>Andy Hind</strong> is Head of the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Warwick.