Produce an analysis and evaluation of different teaching and learning strategies, which you have used during the first block experience to teach a unit of work in your main subject.

... INTRODUCTION The challenge had been set. After only six weeks of coaxing and cajoling in the disguise of guidance, tutors and mentors directed their students to "go forth and teach". Who me? I asked myself. Surely I'm not ready yet, do I have sufficient knowledge to undertake this role reversal? How would I adapt to the huge array of skills required to teach? Yet this was the challenge faced by all trainee teachers. For those of us teaching science there was the additional task of devising lessons that capture both the imagination and intellect of pupils, who were in a setting where the image of school science was increasingly perceived to be dull or abstract. The multi faceted nature of the task was reinforced by the observations of lessons being taught in the classroom. It was here that it was most apparent that teachers have to manage complicated and demanding

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