Accessible, readable and engaging, Becoming a Teacher draws on Alan Newland''s decades of professional work and academic study in education to set out the key principles for developing and understanding the professional values essential to becoming a good teacher.
The book features a constructive examination of the Teachers'' Standards and shares a series of illustrative scenarios, exemplar strategies and practical resources that will equip trainee teachers with easy-to-understand but justifiable rationales to deal with a range of contentious and sensitive issues that they are likely to encounter during the course of their career.
It also explores a series of searching questions relating to the philosophical nature of teaching, the definitions of legal, ethical and moral responsibility as a teacher, and what it means- objectively- to be professional. Becoming a Teacher therefore serves as a professional studies course reader for trainees and early career te
