Teacher Skills Tests For Dummies 1st Edition by Colin Beveridge, Andrew Green ISBN 9781118661642 1118661648
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ISBN 10: 1118661648
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Author: Colin Beveridge, Andrew Green
Teacher Skills Tests For Dummies 1st Edition Table of contents:
Part I: Getting Started with the Skills Tests
Chapter 1: Receiving Your Ticket to the Classroom
Tracing the Routes to Becoming a Teacher
Passing the early stations en route to Teaching Central
Pursuing an undergraduate degree
Taking a postgraduate path
Getting qualified: Teachers without QTS
Introducing the Professional Skills Tests
Taking the tests despite having the relevant GCSEs
Understanding why you have to do the tests
Chapter 2: Scoping out the Skills Tests
Discovering the Test Basics
Arranging your test
Showing up (it’s a good idea!)
Taking the test
Limbering up for Your Literacy Test
Succeeding at the spelling section
Preparing for the punctuation section
Grappling with the grammar section
Understanding the comprehension section
Nailing down the Numeracy Test
Thinking about the mental arithmetic section
Managing maths questions on the screen
Chapter 3: Studying to Succeed
Setting Yourself up Physically
Compiling your tools of the trade
Creating a space of your own
Maintaining good notes
Preparing Yourself Mentally
Studying for a reason
Keeping your head on straight
Acing your Exam: Tips for Exam Technique
Revising for Success
Mastering maths
Limbering up at literacy
Playing games for revision
Shopping for exam success
Treating yourself for motivation
Part II: Literacy Skills
Chapter 4: Falling Under the Spell of Spelling
Breaking Words Up
Sounding off! Finding out about phonics
Making pronouncements on syllables
Getting to the roots
Looking at Patterns and Rules
Considering Other Spelling Approaches
Minding mnemonic strategies
Heeding homophones
Knuckling down to remember words
Having a Go: Practice Tests
Test A
Test B
Test C
Test D
Test E
Test F
Checking out the Practice Test Answers
Test A
Test B
Test C
Test D
Test E
Test F
Chapter 5: Punching above Your Weight at Punctuation
Discovering the Need for Pace
Looking at Beginnings: Capital Letters
Kicking off sentences
Starting proper nouns
Opening a sentence in speech marks
Pausing for Breath: Commas
Working with commas
Considering commas in subordinate clauses
Finishing off with Separators
Asking questions
Conveying emphasis
Speaking Up
Seeing precisely what’s said: Speech marks
Indicating written quotes: Quotation marks
Pondering Other Punctuation Marks
Approaching apostrophes
Carrying out joined-up thinking: Hyphens
Perusing parentheses
Coping with colons
Summing up semi-colons
Having a Go: Practice Tests
Passage A
Passage B
Passage C
Passage D
Passage E
Passage F
Passage G
Checking out the Practice Test Answers
Passage A
Passage B
Passage C
Passage D
Passage E
Passage F
Passage G
Chapter 6: Getting to Grips with Grammar
Introducing Standard English
Meeting the Different Parts of Speech
Noticing nouns, proper nouns and pronouns
Visiting the venue of verbs
Messing with modifiers
Pondering prepositions
Considering conjunctions
Clawing at clauses
Fitting phrases into your writing
Working with Sentences
Viewing sentences by structure
Looking at sentences by purpose
Having a Go: Practice Tests
Test A
Test B
Checking out the Practice Test Answers
Test A
Test B
Chapter 7: Considering the Comprehension Test
Meeting the Comprehension Test
Comprehending comprehension
Seeing how you make sense of writing
Following a process for tackling the test
Getting an idea of the passages
Examining the questions
Having a Go: Practice Tests
Test A
Test B
Checking out the Practice Test Answers
Test A
Test B
Part III: Numeracy Skills
Chapter 8: Making Sense of Mental Maths
Blitzing through the Basic Arithmetic Processes
Dealing with decimals
Dividing confidently
Multiplying longhand
Working with Parts of the Whole
Finding fractions of a number
Simplifying fractions
Performing perfectly with percentages
Fiddling with further fractions
Playing with proportion
Answering Real-life Maths Problems
Making sense of money
Taking care of time
Working with weight and volume
Converting distances
Covering rates and speed
Having a Go: Practice Tests
Test A
Test B
Test C
Test D
Test E
Checking out the Practice Test Answers
Test A
Test B
Test C
Test D
Test E
Chapter 9: Stepping up to the Screen: Arithmetic Review
Playing with Parts of the Whole: Percentages
Juggling with the Table of Joy
Putting percentages in their place
Mastering Measures
Calculating complicated money sums
Tackling time
Working with weight, volume and distance
Reeling in the Ranges (and Averages)
Meeting the three averages
Spreading the news of ranges and quartiles
Tracking Trends
Carrying on extrapolating
Minding the gap: Interpolating
Chapter 10: Getting on Top of On-Screen Tests with Tables and Graphs
Dealing with Data Tables
Reading about regular data tables
Doubling up with two-way tables
Meeting table-element criteria
Sussing out Simple Graphs
Battling it out with bar graphs
Lining up and shooting down line graphs
Pigging out on pie charts
Seeing through scatter graphs
Grafting Away at Complex Graphs
Getting the better of box-and-whiskers plots
Adding in cumulative frequency graphs
Chapter 11: Trying out Your Numeracy Skills: On-Screen Practice Questions
Having a Go Yourself: The Tests
Test A
Test B
Test C
Test D
Test E
Checking How You Did: Test Answers
Test A
Test B
Test C
Test D
Test E
Part IV: Timed Practice Tests
Chapter 12: Practising Literacy Tests under Timed Conditions
Putting Your Literacy Skills to the Test
Spelling questions
Punctuation questions
Grammar questions
Comprehension questions
Checking Your Answers
Spelling answers
Punctuation answers
Grammar answers
Comprehension answers
Chapter 13: Tackling the Timed Numeracy Test
Practising Numeracy Questions
Mental arithmetic questions
On-screen questions
Checking Your Answers
Mental arithmetic answers
On-screen answers
Part V: The Part of Tens
Chapter 14: Ten Top Tips for Keeping Your Head
Breathing Well
Sitting up Straight
Talking Kindly To Yourself
Making Studying a Habit
Knowing What’s Coming
Using a Last-Minute Cheat Sheet
Thinking Creatively
Keeping Your Notes Neat
Pressing the Reset Button
Focusing on the Result
Chapter 15: Ten Tricks for Acing Your Numeracy Test
Reading the Exam Question Properly
Approaching a Question in a Different Way
Managing Your Time Effectively
Guessing Quickly When All Else Fails
Writing Down What’s Important
Making Things Simple
Keeping on Track
Reading Your Answers Again
Laying Your Work Out Neatly
Doing the Most Obvious Thing
About the Authors
Cheat Sheet
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