PGCE reading list
There are lots of really good books available to help you through your PGCE and on your way to the classroom.
We have put our heads together to give you our top 10 from our PGCE / NQT reading list.
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In no particular order:
The Essential Guide to Teaching
By Susan Davies
The Essential Guide to Teaching provides teachers with a comprehensive package at the outset of their professional lives. Read more……
Learning to Teach in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience (Learning to Teach in the Secondary School)
This fourth edition of the bestselling textbook offers a sound and practical introduction to the skills needed to gain Qualified Teacher Status, will help to develop the qualities that lead to good practice and a successful future in education, and covers the range of situations and potential problems faced by student and newly qualified teachers. Read more…….
Essential Teaching Skills
By Chris Kyriacou
This book covers the nature and development of teaching skills, including classroom climate and discipline. It includes specific information on planning, preparing, presenting and managing lessons. Read more………
Learning and Teaching in Secondary Schools (Achieving QTS)
By Viv Ellis
Trainee secondary teachers will find this an invaluable guide to understanding and meeting the teaching requirements for initial teacher training and the Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status. Read more…….
Improving Learning How to Learn: Classrooms, Schools and Networks (Improving Learning): Classrooms, Schools and Networks (Improving Learning)
By Robert McCormick, Alison Fox, Leslie Honour, John MacBeath, Mary James, Bethan Marshall, David Pedder, Sue Swaffield, Joanna Swann, Dylan Wiliam
Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils how to learn. Read more……….
Learning and Teaching in Secondary Schools (Achieving QTS)
From Learning Matters Ltd
Trainee secondary teachers will find this an invaluable guide to understanding and meeting the teaching requirements for initial teacher training and the Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status. Read more…….
Becoming a Secondary School Teacher
By Alan Bloomfield, Alison Scott-Baumann, Linda Roughton
A support text for PGCE students at the beginning of their teaching careers and the mentors who support them. Read more…….
Supporting Gifted and Talented Pupils in the Secondary School
By Moira Thomson
This is an excellent book which is organised for teachers, heads of schools, and those specifically involved with very able youngsters.Read more……….
Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Teaching
(2nd Edition)
By Justin Dillon, Meg Maguire
The second edition of this highly successful text addresses these important educational questions. Written for the benefit of student teachers and teachers at the beginning of their careers, the book is designed to represent a coherent, challenging and thoughtful set of articles that will help readers to firm up their own ideas and give a factual basis for discussion and debate, Read more……
There’s No Need to Shout! The Secondary Teacher’s Guide to Successful Behaviour Management
By David Wright
Written in a clear, easy to follow style, this title is packed with real case studies drawn from a wide range of educational contexts.Read more…….
Preparing to Teach in Secondary Schools
By Val Brooks, Ian Abbott, Liz Bills
The new edition of this bestseller is the definitive guide for all trainee secondary school and newly qualified teachers. Using practical examples, it covers the range of core professional skills and concepts that all student teachers need to acquire, irrespective of their subject specialism or training route. Read more……….
Controlling your Class: A Teachers Guide to Managing Classroom Behavior: Teacher’s Guide to Managing Classroom Behaviour
By Bill McPhillimy
This book is about the management of pupils behaviour in the classroom. The author provides a short, readable set of ideas and guidelines that a busy student or teacher can relate to her or his own experience, and put into practice. Read more……..
Behaviour Management Pack: With Classroom Behaviour, And Cracking the Hard Class, And, Behaviour Management, And How to Manage Children’s Challenging Behaviour
By Bill Rogers, Sue Roffey, Chris Derrington
Classroom Behaviour: A Practical Guide to Effective Teaching, Behaviour Management and Colleague Support. Second Edition
By Bill Rogers
Classroom Behaviour, Second Edition explores the relationship between effective teaching, behaviour management, discipline and colleague support. Read more…………
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