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Teaching in secondary schools requires a professional mindset, a range of skills and the confidence to face challenging situations. This highly practical and accessible book for all secondary School Direct trainees will give you the building blocks of knowledge and skill that all teachers need. It offers space to question what happens in school and advice about how to make sense of it. With examples from students who have done it all ahead of you, you will be guided through key issues faced while training to be a teacher: wellbeing, managing classroom behaviour, handling the workload, lesson planning, adapting your teaching and assessing learning, and more. Key features include: Reflections to help you to think what it means to your practice Action boxes with practical advice on how to further develop your teaching Advice on further study John Keenan is Senior Lecturer in Secondary Education at Newman University. Andy Hind is Head of Secondary Teacher Education at the University of Warwick.

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Dr John Keenan taught English in secondary schools, sixth form and Further Education before moving to Higher Education, teaching at Leicester University, Coventry University, Worcester University and now Newman University. He has had a variety of roles including being lead tutor of Teach First English for the West Midlands, co-ordinator of an Advertising and Media degree and lead tutor of PGCE English. John also works as a supervisor for doctoral students and has a research focus on teacher education and Further Education. Dr Andy Hind worked as a science teacher in Leeds and Bradford before moving the University of Leeds as a researcher of science education. At the end of these projects Andy returned to secondary teaching as a Head of Science in a secondary school in Leeds and then moved on to work in Initial Teacher Education as a science tutor for both the Open University and Manchester University. Andy moved to Newman University in 2010 where he taught on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes before his current role as a Head of Secondary Teacher Education at Warwick University. He is also member of Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers and on national steering committees helping to define the future direction of teacher training.

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