Product Description: The Expert Teacher of English is for all passionate teachers – both novice and expert - who aspire to become outstanding professionals. It considers what we mean by ‘expert’ and ‘expertise’, explores concepts that are vital to understanding what expertise in teaching is ‘for’, and discusses the characteristics of excellent teaching...read more

Product Description: Following other volumes in the Learning to Read Critically series, Learning to Read Critically in Language and Literacy aims to develop skills of critical analysis and research design.

Product Description: This authoritative and comprehensive text provides a source of advice and guidance for trainee and practising teachers at both primary and secondary level. Based on DfES and TTA guidelines and requirements, it presents an account of the background, theory and practice of teaching this essential subject...read more

Product Description: This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to teaching English in primary and secondary schools. It brings together the latest standards with authoritative guidance, ensuring that readers feel confident about how to approach their teaching...read more

Andrew Goodwyn's straightforward approach to teaching about the moving image de-mystifies this topic and shows how it can be easily incorporated into classroom practice. The first of its kind, this book builds on teachers' knowledge of teaching about advertising, newspapers and visual adaptations of literary texts, and provides practical advice and guidance on: * Adaptations: not just the film of the book* Teaching film* Teaching television* Practical work* New technologies and the moving audience. This jargon-free book will be a stimulating and useful guide to teachers and student teachers looking to improve their knowledge of the moving image and its recent arrival in secondary school teaching.

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Product Description: New communications technology has been a boon to teaching and learning subjects of English, from reading and writing to literature such as Shakespeare. This book explores the ways that information and communications technology, or ICT, can be employed in teaching English and enriching the abilities of students...read more

Product Description: Examining how to make English teaching exciting and relevant in a modern technological and culturally diverse society, this text explores poetry and classic texts, and media and multicultural texts. It gives approaches to unexpected texts and explores gender issues in adolescent fiction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Aimed at anyone interested in helping English teachers to develop and improve, this text's main focus is on the ways in which experienced English teachers can support and develop student teachers, and induct them into the profession...read more

Product Description: Offers a discussion of the nature of pupil achievement in secondary English. It should help teachers and lecturers to clarify their thinking about pupil ability, especially in relation to the current assessment structures in the National Curriculum...read more

Product Description: This text explores the troubled relationship between English and media education. It places the hostility to the mass media of key figures like Leavis in its historical context, showing how this initial antipathy provided the starting point from which all English teachers began to take the media seriously...read more

Product Description: This is the third book in the Modes of Writing series which aims to bring a wide range of writing to the attention of students aged 14 and upwards. The three anthologies are Narratives, Arguments and Descriptions. Narratives is a collection of stories, anecdotes, tales, con-dc strips, myths, fables and letters, all of which depend on the linking of events and states of mind in a sequence...read more