About the Book

A Practical Guide to Teaching ICT in the Secondary School

This practical and accessible workbook is designed to support student teachers as they develop their basic teaching skills, and increase their broader knowledge and understanding for teaching. Newly qualified and beginning teachers should also find it useful.

A Practical Guide to Teaching ICT in the Secondary School draws on the best available research concerning student teachers' needs and approaches to learning. It focuses on the key pedagogical issues which arise during school experience, including:

• managing the class and learning environment
• developing pupils' understanding of concepts including challenging misconceptions
• different ways of explaining aspects of the subject which pupils find problematic.

It provides a wealth of practical activities and materials, underpinned by relevant theory, which have been developed through the authors' vast experience of working with student teachers. These activities provide opportunities to analyse learning and performance. Photocopiable planning guides are included, together with case studies, examples of good practice and a range of tried-and-tested strategies. 

The workbook has been written to complement Learning to Teach ICT in the Secondary School (also published by Routledge), and can be used to develop further some of the basic teaching skills covered in this textbook. However, it can also be used equally successfully as a stand-alone text. It has been designed to be used by student teachers, on their own or with others, or by school- or university-based tutors with their student teachers, to develop and/or reinforce their understanding of some of the important aspects of learning to teach ICT.