1. THE STUDENT TEACHER’S ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Michael Allen and Rob Toplis From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009 UNIT 1.2

2. OBJECTIVES At the end of this unit you should be able to: prepare for school experience work with other staff and pupils on school experience identify expectations, roles and responsibilities of student teachers on school experience explain what it means to be a professional chart aspects of your development as a teacher over your ITE course and into your future learning and development. From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009

3. SCHOOL EXPERIENCE Preparing for school experience During school experience –Work with other staff and pupils on school experience –Relationship with the professional tutor –Relationship with your subject tutor (often called subject mentor) –Relationships with class teachers –Expectations, roles and responsibilities on school experience. From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009

4. TEACHERS AS PROFESSIONALS A model of student teacher development (Furlong and Maynard, 1995) –Stage 1: Focusing on self development –Stage 2: Focusing on whole-class learning –Stage 3 Stability and focusing on individual pupils’ learning. beyond your ITE course. From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009

5. FURTHER INFORMATION To explore this material further, read: Allen, M. and Toplis, R. (2009) ‘The student teacher’s roles and responsibilities’, in S. Capel, M. Leask and T. Turner (eds) Learning to Teach in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience, 5th end, London: Routledge. From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009

6. FURTHER READING The subject specific texts in the Learning to Teach in the Secondary School series provide detailed advice about teaching Art and Design, Citizenship, Design and Technology, English, Geography, History, ICT, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Music, Physical Education, Religious Education and Science. From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009