
Targeted Teaching
Description
This new text challenges the idea that there is a 'best way' to teach. Instead, the authors explain, a more pragmatic approach is required. Teachers need a range of skills and strategies to select from, work with and adapt. Every school, cohort, class and child is different. Beyond that, strategies that worked well with a class one week, may prove ineffective the next.
This book:
presents a range of strategies, well grounded in research, for trainees and beginning teachers to use in their own classroom settings and contexts
presents a model of teaching that views teaching not as a profession in which there is always a single correct answer, but as a complex interaction between teacher and students
addresses common issues that beginning teachers face when developing their practice
If you are a teacher wanting to find out what works best for your class, in your school, right now, this text will show you how to harness the power of small or large scale research to help you find the answer.
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About the Authors
Tremaine Baker is Senior Lecturer (Practice) in Secondary Teacher Education at Middlesex University. Previously, Tremaine taught in a mainstream secondary school and, as an Advanced Skills Teacher and a Specialist Leader of Education, he supported the development of educational excellence across Essex.
Gareth Evers is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University responsible for Professional Studies. Prior to this, he was a Professional Coordinating Mentor at a North London comprehensive school. As a teacher, Gareth taught English for twelve years.
Richard Brock is a PhD student at Cambridge University. Prior to this, he taught secondary physics at a comprehensive school in Essex. He acted as an associate tutor on a school-based MEd course certified by Middlesex University, has supervised undergraduate students and assisted with teaching Masters' sessions as the Faculty of Education, Cambridge.
Content
Behaviour management
Pace
Teaching and modelling
Questioning
Assessment
Feedback
Differentiation