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Reflective practice is at the heart of effective teaching, and this book helps you develop into a reflective teacher of English. Everything you need is here: guidance on developing your analysis and self-evaluation skills, advice on assessing pupils' progress effectively, and examples of how experienced teachers deliver successful lessons. The book shows you how to plan lessons, how to manage behavior and use ICT in English and how to make good use of resources. Each chapter contains points for reflection, which encourage you to break off from your reading and think about the challenging questions that you face as a new teacher.The book comes with access to a companion website, www.sagepub.co.uk/secondary.
Teaching Different Pupils, Teaching Different Abilities
Teaching Different Pupils, Teaching Different Abilities
This chapter considers:
- the principal issues involved in teaching pupils with a wide range of abilities, aptitudes and interests in order to provide for their individual needs
- inclusion in the English classroom
- definitions of different abilities
- differentiation and how we differentiate
- mixed-ability teaching
- creating an atmosphere for learning
- personalized learning.
By focusing on two particular trainee teachers preparing for a teaching placement, you can reflect upon practical approaches to meeting pupils’ needs. You also examine medium-term planning documents, considering the ways in which they address the particular abilities, aptitudes and interests of the pupils in the class.
In Chapter 2, you have already been introduced to some of the practicalities of planning in English, including:
- planning from the National Curriculum for English
- using the Framework for ...
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