Teaching Secondary English

The author shows how teachers can enable their students to acquire skills and knowledge, as well as to recognize the value of aesthetic experience and emotional literacy.

Pike (U. of Leeds, UK) draws on over ten years' recent experience teaching English at the secondary level, his current work with student teachers in the PGCE Secondary English course at the U. of Leeds, and classroom-based research conducted during his Ph.D. program to provide insights to help English teachers to both appreciate what they do and see new possibilities in their teaching. The text covers some foundational principles and practices for the English classroom and their application to planning and assessment; teaching English at Key Stage 3, GCSE and AS/A2 levels; and challenges facing contemporary English teachers, and strategies for handling them. Distributed by Sage Publications. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in Educational Values and Pedagogy, having previously been a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer in the School of Education where I currently lead the Learning, Leadership and Policy (LLP) academic team and am a member of the senior management team. Recently funded projects include: Principal Investigator on AHRC/ESRC projects looking at school ethos, leadership and learning in English and the Humanities (£60k) and moral education and character education in new academies (£50k); lead consultant on two evaluations of English in vocational diplomas (£30k) and lead investigator on a project working with English and history teachers on the teaching of texts from other times (£10k). I also provide INSET on pedagogy for teachers across the curriculum, lead and teach on the PGCE in Secondary English. Before doing my ESRC funded Ph.D at Southampton University I taught and led learning for over ten years in high schools.