Teaching Secondary English
- Mark Pike - University of Leeds, UK
The author shows how teachers can enable their students to acquire skills and knowledge, as well as to recognize the value of aesthetic experience, emotional literacy, and spiritual and moral response to literature in their own lives and in their communities.
`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 McGuinn, 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!'
This book is informative and organised very well, I have used a great many idea out of it, I would recommend for trainee teachers and NQTs
This has been helpful for both new and exsisting tutors delivering English lessons of varying levels. Informative and insightful, with some interesting ideas.
