TY - BOOK AU - Nicholls, Gill TI - Learning to teach: a handbook for primary and secondary school teachers SN - 9780749428655 AV - LB 1775 .N6 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - London, United Kingdom PB - Kogan Page Limited KW - ELEMENTARY -- TEACHERS -- TRAINING N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. An Introduction to Teaching -- 2. The National Curriculum - a decade of reform -- 3. Children's Learning -- 4. Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Pupils' Learning -- 5. Plan and Prepare to be an Effective Teacher -- 6. Teaching and Classroom Management -- 7. Assessment, Recording and Reporting -- 8. Special Needs in the 'Mainstream' -- 9. The Inspection Process -- 10. Working with Parents -- 11. Professional Requirements -- 12. Continual Professional Development -- 13. Induction for Newly Qualified Teachers N2 - Teacher training continues to go through significant changes, the most recent of which has been the response to circulars 10/97, High Status, High Standards: requirements for courses of initial teacher training and 4/98, Requirements for Courses of initial Teacher Training. These circulars have increased the expectations of what it is be a teacher, and have also set the standards by which future teachers are to be assessed. School-based training has not changed: trainees are still expected to nd the majority of their training time in schools with their mentors. However, circular 4/98 gives clear categories and standards under which trainees have to demonstrate their abilities ER -