This book is designed to help you through one of the most important aspects of your pre-service teacher education: your school experience placements. Highly practical and accessible, it gives guidance on what happens before, during and after placement, and provide you with strategies on how to deal with the issues that you will encounter in school, including classroom management, lesson planning and catering for individual differences.

Each chapter includes:

· Relevant AITSL standards that are being addressed

· Key terminology that you'll need to familiarise yourself with

· Essential questions that encourage discussion of teaching practice

· Frequently asked questions by pre-service teachers with potential responses

· Placement scenarios that offer valuable learning opportunities

The book is also supported by 30+ downloadable lesson plan and classroom-ready templates.

Autorentext

Dr Brian Mundy has been teaching at Victoria University since 2010. He has taught units in pedagogy and science education within the Bachelor of Education and Masters of Secondary Education. In 2014 he was awarded an Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) citation for excellence in his teaching. More specifically for the development of integrated and engaging curriculum and teaching practices by an early career teacher in support of student learning in teacher education placements. Prior to his arrival at Victoria University, Brian worked as a secondary teacher in the western suburbs of Melbourne for 31 years teaching classes from year 7 to year 12 across a wide range of subjects that included science, geography and integrated studies. He completed his doctoral studies in school based curriculum design and pedagogical change at Melbourne University in 2013.

Klappentext

This book is designed to help pre-service teachers through one of the most important aspects of their education: their school experience placements. Highly practical and accessible, it gives guidance on what happens before, during and after placement, and provides readers with strategies on how to deal with the issues that they will encounter in school, including classroom management, lesson planning and catering for individual differences.

Each chapter includes:

· Relevant AITSL standards that are being addressed

· Key terminology that pre-service teachers need to familiarise themselves with

· Essential questions that encourage discussion of teaching practice

· Frequently asked questions by pre-service teachers with potential responses

· Placement scenarios that offer valuable learning opportunities

The book is also supported by 30+ downloadable lesson plan and classroom-ready templates.

Brian Mundy is a lecturer in Education at Victoria University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part A: The placement stages
Chapter 2: Pre-placement
Chapter 3: Beginning placement
Chapter 4: The placement experience/completing placement
Chapter 5: Post-placement
Part B: Major placement issues
Chapter 6: Classroom management
Chapter 7: Lesson and unit planning
Chapter 8: Catering for all
Chapter 9: Assessment in the classroom
Chapter 10: Evaluating pedagogy
Chapter 11: Developing theory