2nd Edition

Explaining in the Secondary School

By Dr George A Brown Copyright 2001
88 Pages
by Routledge

88 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores strategies for building up a repertoire of ideas, approaches and techniques that allow teachers to develop effective explanatory skills. It covers issues such as the use of an appropriate language register and analogies for handling topics with which teachers might be unfamiliar.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Aims and content -- UNIT 1 What is explaining? -- UNIT 2 Strategies of explanation -- UNIT 3 Analysing explanations -- UNIT 4 Knowing the subject matter -- UNIT 5 Effective explaining -- UNIT 6 Feedback.

Biography

Brown, Dr George A