Everything You Need to Know to Survive Teaching, Second edition

✍ Scribed by Ranting Teacher

• Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 185
• Edition: Second edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

'If you are easily offended, think the sun shines out of your kid's behind, or are the chief inspector for schools, you'd better stop right here. The Ranting Teacher The warning as you enter the Ranting Teacher's website most definitely applies to Everything you Need to Know to Survive Teaching (2nd edition) too. A fully up-dated collection of the nation's top teaching rants, the Ranting Teacher finds solutions to the issues that really bother teachers - from controlling behaviour, wising up to kids' excuses and coping with extra-curricular activities, to dealing with parents, curing hangovers and impressing the inspectors. This book is the ultimate survival guide for teachers everywhere.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Preface to the second edition......Page 10
Introduction: Why do you want to be a teacher?......Page 12
The peculiar process of interviewing......Page 16
The mentor – make or break time......Page 20
Finding your true calling......Page 26
Things you lose when you are a teacher......Page 30
Firm but fair......Page 34
Preventing misbehaviour......Page 37
Mixed abilities......Page 40
The Workload Agreement......Page 43
The lesson introduction......Page 48
The lesson in progress......Page 53
The lesson plenary......Page 58
Irritating interruptions during your lessons......Page 60
Irritating interruptions during your day......Page 64
Learning support assistants......Page 68
Incorporating ICT......Page 71
Incorporating communication skills......Page 75
The unanimous groan of homework......Page 77
Playing truant......Page 84
Language matters......Page 86
Well versed in the art of lying......Page 90
Classroom banter......Page 94
What we sometimes forget......Page 99
Form time......Page 104
The school production......Page 109
Training courses......Page 112
The school holidays......Page 117
Trying to get away from it all......Page 122
The last boy scout......Page 125
Have a break before you have a breakdown......Page 129
Tour of duty......Page 131
Sports Day......Page 134
Marking madness......Page 136
Surviving a hangover......Page 140
Gossip......Page 144
Being sporty......Page 147
When your classroom is used and abused......Page 150
Ships that pass in the night – leaving work for supply teachers......Page 153
Meeting the parents at parents’ evening......Page 160
Dealing with situations at parents’ evening......Page 165
Letters from parents......Page 170
The school run......Page 174
End of term reports......Page 177
Conclusion......Page 182

✦ Subjects

Педагогика;Основы педагогического мастерства;