1. Aims and Objectives 2. The English Environment 3. Talking for Effect 4. Reading in Class 5. Writing for a Purpose 6. Approaching Poetry 7. The Basics 8. English and Assessment 9. English and Drama 10. Finding a Balance
Biography
Tricia Evans, at the time of the first publication, was Lecturer in English and Drama in Education at the University of Keele, UK.
Reviews of the first publication:
‘A comprehensive, well organised, sensibly balanced book which suggests and explains how a variety of good practice might be undertaken in all the subject’s important areas. It never ignores the realities likely to be encountered in schools…’
— Margaret Mathieson
‘To detail everything I found worthwhile would be to summarise the book…even war-scarred veterans will find something of value in the book.’
— Walter McCall
‘From the first principles of all good teaching, the establishment and maintenance of good relationships within the classroom environment, through the practicalities of organisation and the physical environment to the specifics of the teaching material and its presentation to the pupil, Tricia Evans offers sound advice. By assimilating a mass of modern research material to support her conclusions, balancing statistics with statements from classroom experience, Tricia Evans answers many of the questions which disturb secondary school teachers, both the young and the experienced…Her book should be compulsive, even compulsory, reading for those interested in evaluating, assessing and improving their classroom performance.’
— W.F. Boyle, British Book News
