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### An introduction to Secondary learning

Kris Stutchbury

Hello. I’m Kris Stutchbury. I’ve worked for many years as a chemistry teacher and more recently as a science teacher/educator in initial teacher education. I currently work on educational development projects at The Open University, the focus of which are teacher education.

As a beginning teacher you will almost certainly be preoccupied with survival – planning lessons, classroom management, marking work and meeting targets set for you and your school.

Learning to be a teacher involves developing your own teaching personality, which enables you to be the sort of teacher that you want to be.

The purpose of this course is to encourage you to stand back and think about what it is you are trying to do and what you believe. By doing this you will be able to develop a strong conceptual framework that includes a view of knowledge and a view of learning.

This course will introduce you to some of the ideas and concepts that underpin knowledge and learning. You will be encouraged to think about these ideas in the context of your subject and how to present your subject in a way that fits in with your values and beliefs about knowledge and learners.

There are no correct theories. You will find different ideas to be useful in different contexts. Furthermore, new ideas in this field are continually being developed. Hopefully, you will be inspired to follow some of these developments.

This course will provide you with a conceptual framework around knowledge and learning in which to develop your practice as a subject teacher.