Product Description

This is fully updated second edition of boasts new and improved survival tactics for the newly qualified teacher in the classroom, demystifing the teaching profession. Covering every aspect of the profession, this guide provides information, advice and useful tips on all the typical issues facing the new teacher during the school year, such as planning, controlling and teaching classes; coping with the administrative workload; developing positive relationships with students, colleagues and parents; and preparing for mentoring sessions, inspection and promotion.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3429 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Synopsis
This is fully updated second edition of boasts new and improved survival tactics for the newly qualified teacher in the classroom, demystifing the teaching profession. Covering every aspect of the profession, this guide provides information, advice and useful tips on all the typical issues facing the new teacher during the school year, such as planning, controlling and teaching classes; coping with the administrative workload; developing positive relationships with students, colleagues and parents; and preparing for mentoring sessions, inspection and promotion.

About the Author
Sue Cowley is the author of 'numerous educational books, including 'Getting the Buggers to Write' and 'The Guerrilla Guide to Teaching.' Sue has taught children of all ages and at all levels. She now combines the roles of educational author, trainer and consultant with part time supply teaching.

Customer Reviews

Survival of the fittest.....
What can I say?....
I got this book because I wanted a quick and easy reference guide that would help me basically survive my NQT Year. I bought quite a few books as I hadn't had any recommended to me from my course. Well, I can tell you this book was by far the best - so good in fact that I took all the other books back. I found that this book was a really easy, enjoyable book to read.

I felt completely bombarded by all the information that us NQTs had to take on board but this book really put everything into context, in order of importance and really is to the point with some really great hints and tips, from the layout of your classroom, to how to make good impressions on your first day, to marking and how to deal with parents...really is a mini teaching encyclopedia.

I found this book so helpful that I bought her other books 'Getting the Buggers to Behave' and 'The Teaching Clinic'. Sue Cowley really is a great help to any teacher in the classroom whether that be Primary Ed or Secondary Ed. If you buy any books as a teacher I would buy her's. The thing that makes her books SO invaluable is that she is teacher herself so is drawing from life experience, she's not talking as a person who has never set foot in a classroom, which is refreshing!

It is not a book that you read once, you can read it over and over or just dip in and out, either way I feel that she is an asset to the educational profession and her writing shows this very well.

Trust me you won't be disappointed!!! :-)

I love this book A*
As a Head of Department in a secondary school I love this book and recommend it to every student I have in school. I still use it myself as it tells you how to do things short and simple. For the experienced practitioner it is a good reminder on how we should be doing things. It has survival tactics for each term of the year, planning, behaviour management, teaching and learning, pastoral care, climbing the paper mountain, marking, exams, reports, networking and who to avoid in the staff room, how to deal with parents, meetings, extra curricular activities, getting through induction and CPD. There is an excellent chapter at the end on moving on to another school and how to make job applications. I cannot say enough how much I personally love this book.

Great tips
I really liked this book when I was doing my GTP 3 years ago. It has REAL tips, unlike many books. I found it so good I'd like to translate it in French.