The Complete Guide to Becoming an English Teacher

by Stephen Clarke, Paul Dickinson, Jo Westbrook

This is a complete guide to how to become a successful teacher of English in secondary school. The book enables readers to design a tailor-made program to suit their individual needs as a student teacher.

496 pages, Hardcover

First published March 22, 2004

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Reviews

[Mícheál · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some nuggets of gold in a mine of airy-fairy progressive ideas

There are some good chapters in this book, but overall it didn’t really enlightenment me in terms of being and English teacher. It did not provide me with any information, practical or theoretical, that I could use to improve my practice.

[Alice Visser · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me a while to finish this, as it is a one-chapter-per-day kind of read. I wanted to read this book before I started the teaching programme, as I find that academic books go in one ear and out the other. By reading this book before the course, then engaging with it again during the school year as I engage with different types of teaching experiences, I think I will gain much more out of it. It is a well-written book with many practical suggestions, meaning I will return to it again and again.