This best-selling text has been fully revised and updated for the new City & Guilds 7302 award and stages one and two of the 7407 award. As well as being endorsed by City & Guilds and written in line with the new awards, the book benefits from David Minton’s experience in teaching FE and Adult Education teachers. He is able to provide insight into practical aspects of how to manager a classroom and get the job done in sometimes difficult circumstances.
Features
Endorsed by City & Guilds
By 2010 every FE teacher will have to hold a level 4 teaching certificate: this book will help them get there
Best-selling title in the UK for this marketTable of Contents
Part 1: Effective Class Teaching
Introduction: the teachers role
Section A - A guide to the book
1. How to use the book: learning through activity
2. Leaning to learn: developing study skills
Section B - Gaining confidence
3. Observing other teachers
4. Peer-group pressure
5. Teams
Section C - Your own class
6. Getting started
7. Lesson preparation
8. Tasks and performance criteria
9. Managing and learning your class
10. communication
11. The learning environment
12. Assessment
Part 2: Developing a learning programme
Introduction
13. A case study approach
14. Identifying needs
15. Devising a learning/teaching strategy
16. Teaching methodology and skills
17. Managing flexible learning
18. Student guidance and support
19. Developing study skills
20. Aids to learning
21. Barriers to communication I
22. Barriers to communication II
23. Assessment and testing
Part 3: The theory behind it all
Introduction: discoveries in psychology
24. Behaviorism
25. Neo-behaviorism: structural analysis
26. Insight learning: Gestalt
27. Cognitive development: concrete and formal thinking
28. Perception
29. The cognitive revolution
Part 4: Growing responsibilities
30. More to learn
31. Effectiveness and the curriculum
Appendix
Glossary of terms
Suggestions for further reading
Index
