The Media Teacher's Book Second Edition

Summary:
In a rapidly changing media landscape, THE MEDIA TEACHER'S BOOK SECOND EDITION and website is the one-stop shop for all media teachers, whatever your level of experience.

Providing you with invaluable lesson ideas and guidance through key areas that form the core of all specifications, whether you are teaching GCSE, A-level or Creative and Media Diplomas and BTECS, you will find this an essential teaching tool.

THE MEDIA TEACHER'S BOOK SECOND EDITION offers you:

- a strategy for contemporary media teaching based in active, practical learning
- access to 100 easily implementable, time-saving lesson ideas for approaching concepts and content
- sound advice on preparing lessons effectively
- strategies for raising achievement among your students
- guidance on how to assess your students' work effectively
- practical advice on best practice for teaching specific areas.

The authors combine the experience of a principal examiner and media teaching expert with that of a practised classroom teacher leading the delivery of new media qualifications in a successful and well-respected sixth form college.

• Written with the combined experience of a principal examiner and classroom practitioner to give you the support you need to teach Media Studies effectively
• Contains 100 tried and tested lesson ideas that save you time, whatever Media qualification you are teaching
• Provides up-to-date guidance on all new media qualification -- A-levels, GCSEs, Creative and Media Diploma, and BTEC
• Has a supporting, free-to-access website with interactive learning plans to help you and your students
• Offers lots of quality support to build confidence to teach Media Studies effectively

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Media Studies after the Media?
Teaching Media Practice
Teaching Media Literacy
Doing the Big Concepts
Media in Society: Doing the Big Debates
Supporting Media Coursework
Assessing Media Learning
Further Reading
Glossary

About the Author(s):
JULIAN MCDOUGALL is a principal examiner and leading media teaching expert who has written numerous books on Media for Hodder Education and other publishers.

NICK POTAMITIS is an experienced teacher of Media Studies at sixth form level.

Readership:
GCSE, A-level, Diploma, BTEC