Teaching Secondary English

by Mark Pike

Overview

The author shows how teachers can enable their students to acquire skills and knowledge, as well as to recognize the value of aesthetic experience and emotional literacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761941644
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/02/2003
Series:	1-Off Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Mark A Pike is Lecturer in English in Secondary Education and Head of PGCE English at the University of Leeds. He was Head of English in a large comprehensive school and taught English in secondary schools for over ten years. He has written widely on the teaching of English

Table of Contents

PART ONE: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
The Art of Teaching English
‘Operational' Lesson Planning
‘Metre' Reading
Assessment in English
English Teachers' Professional Development
PART TWO: TEACHING THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM
Literature and Literacy at Key Stage 3
Teaching GCSE English and English Literature
Teaching English 16-18
Advanced Level
PART THREE: CHALLENGING ENGLISH
Making Meaning
The Media, ICT and Drama
Differentiation and the Individual
Gender, Ethnicity and Special Needs
Firing the Canon
Popularizing Poetry
Spiritual and Moral Development Through English

Editorial Reviews

‘Instead of taking us yet again on a tour through the four modalities of English, this book's tri-partite structure takes a refreshingly different approach by offering thought-provoking argument grounded in classroom practicality' - Nick Mc Guinn, University of York

Students' comments on

Teaching Secondary English:

‘The book is written in clear, digestible terms, offering many practical ideas for teaching the key skills and the wide range of material encountered in the English classroom. .. It is the kind of book which can be dipped into, which is particularly useful for people who spend most of their time planning lessons!'

‘Teaching Secondary English is a must for student teachers and NQTs. It is a clear, comprehensive and practical guidebook dealing not solely with theory and pedagogy, but with the very real issues facing new teachers today'

‘ It is clear that Teaching Secondary English, unlike so many textbooks on the subject, is written by someone with recent classroom experience and this helps the reader to trust and respect the advice it purports. I certainly feel it is grounded in practicalities not "pie in the sky" theory that will not work in most ‘real' classrooms!'

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