Sage Publications Succeeding on your School Experience Placement

This book is designed to help you through one of the most important aspects of your pre-service teacher education: your school experience placements. Highly practical and accessible, it gives guidance on what happens before, during and after placement, and provide you with strategies on how to deal with the issues that you will encounter in school, including classroom management, lesson planning and catering for individual differences. Each chapter includes: ·         Relevant AITSL standards that are being addressed ·         Key terminology that you’ll need to familiarise yourself with ·         Essential questions that encourage discussion of teaching practice ·         Frequently asked questions by pre-service teachers with potential responses   ·         Placement scenarios that offer valuable learning opportunities  The book is also supported by 30+ downloadable lesson plan and classroom-ready templates.   About the Author Dr Brian Mundy has been teaching at Victoria University since 2010. He has taught units in pedagogy and science education within the Bachelor of Education and Masters of Secondary Education. In 2014 he was awarded an Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) citation for excellence in his teaching. More specifically for the development of integrated and engaging curriculum and teaching practices by an early career teacher in support of student learning in teacher education placements. Prior to his arrival at Victoria University, Brian worked as a secondary teacher in the western suburbs of Melbourne for 31 years teaching classes from year 7 to year 12 across a wide range of subjects that included science, geography and integrated studies. He completed his doctoral studies in school based curriculum design and pedagogical change at Melbourne University in 2013.