Product Description

This cheerful and accessible book sets out clear and practical guidelines to support your training and enhance your teaching, moving you directly towards a real understanding of how and why pupils learn and of how you can enhance your own progress.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41822 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Review

'I just wanted to say how refreshing it is to read such good sense written in jargon-free English. The book encapsulates and articulates exactly what being a trainee is all about. Please accept my congratulations and compliments - it is the best book on teacher training I have read.' - Phil Horsfall (PGCE Curriculum Area Leader for MFL, University of York)

'This book is an impressive collection of myth busting and inspirational tips about how to get to grips with the challenge of life as a trainee.' - Learning and Teaching Update

From the Back Cover

This cheerful and accessible book is packed with direct and straightforward advice drawn from the author’s extensive and successful personal experience as teacher-trainer, teacher and examiner. It sets out clear and practical guidelines to support your training and enhance your teaching, moving you directly towards a real understanding of how and why pupils learn and of how you can enhance your own progress.

It also offers reassurance and support with the difficulties which you might encounter through your training as a teacher. Why won’t Year 8 actually do anything? Why do we have to read all this theory? I know my pace and timing need improvement, but what do I actually do about it? Why haven’t I moved forward at all in the last four weeks?

It does this by:

• outlining strategies for organization
• exploring issues of personal development
• demystifying areas often seen as difficult or complex
• providing achievable and practical solutions
• directly addressing anxieties.

Although a practical book, at its heart lie essential principles about good teaching and learning. It is anecdotal and readable, and may be dipped into for innovative lesson ideas or read from cover-to-cover as a short, enjoyable course which discovers exciting teaching principles in successful, practical experience.

The book is ideal for secondary trainee teachers, but the underlying principles about what makes a brilliant trainee teacher are applicable to primary trainees too.

Customer Reviews

Clear, straightforward, inspirational and yet focussed on the little things
Fantastic read.

Extremely realistic, positively stated, at all times focussing on simple areas to hone to improve. I had moments of elation, recognising myself AT TIMES as being brilliant (a nice piece of self assessment!) - also noting that there were realistic and achievable areas to work on - and in the best grounding area, aware that there is (well, there are, but very few) no perfect mentor-mentee relationship out there - we're all on our teaching journeys juggling everything...