Preparing to Teach

<p>This book gives student-teachers the chance to learn from the experiences of students who have just completed a course in preparing to teach. They offer all manner of insights from the amusing to the cautionary to the thought-provoking. Course tutors provide additional commentary identifying key themes and structuring chapters and the whole book to mirror the process of learning to teach.</p><p>Each chapter takes a different facet of learning to teach and issues covered include: </p><ul> <li>observing experienced teachers</li> <li>interaction with pupils</li> <li>discussions with mentors and new colleagues</li> <li>exploring the concept of ‘subject knowledge’</li> <li>what this means in practice.</li> </ul><p>Later chapters consider the many frameworks in which student-teachers will find themselves working the Qualifying to Teach Standards included but also acknowledging tacit frameworks such as the ‘hidden’ curriculum. </p><p>Students who are thinking of learning to teach applying for a course or just starting one will find voices here that give them a sense of how it feels to work through that process. The book is a companion; its tone friendly conversational and relaxed. Even at the most testing times in a course you can turn to <em>Preparing to Teach: Learning from Experience</em> and find voices that say ‘yes I’ve felt like that too’.</p>