Product Description

• the new Professional Standard for Qualified Teachers;
• the Key Stage 3 strategy;
• whole-school curriculum planning;
• literacy, Citizenship and ICT across the curriculum.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #191873 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-14
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

The perfect guidebook for new teachers
I first encountered this readable book as a student teacher. One of our lecturers on my PGCE course constantly recommended it. And not without reason.

Michael Marland's tone is reassuring, thought-through and clearly coming from experience. I wish now I'd taken more of his advice earlier in my career.

This is a warm, humane volume. You won't find glossy illustrations or boxes of targets. Instead, you'll find practical advice on the day to day work of a teacher - and on such essentials for the classroom as pot plants! Especially useful is the chapter on working as a form tutor, an area often negelected in teacher training.

I've owned two copies of this book - the first I lent to a student teacher in my Department, and never came back... clearly a good recommendation; the second is under lock and key, but dog-eared and well-worn. Get your own.

There is hope!
As a newly qualified and VERY de-motivated teacher, I bought this on a recommendation. I have barely been able to put it down. I am already half way through and have spent time highlighting sections of it to refer back to. It has reassured me, at this low point in my teaching career (albeit short so far) that I AM in the right job, I AM doing the right thing by my students and there are some small things that I could be doing to ensure I am more organised as a teacher and therefore project to my students what I want in no uncertain terms. This book is jam packed full of small golden nuggets of advice. Things that are so small and appear insignificant that they are overlooked by mentors, university trainers, HoF. Believe me this has inspired me to smile once more and to begin afresh from next week! This is a book to keep hold of and remind yourself that you are doing many things right, you've just got to keep refreshing your rules with the students and affirming your authority and above all - one of my biggest problems - be organised!

Read it!!
I'm so glad to see this book is still available. I read it decades ago and benefitted from it. I had been teacher-trained (!?!?!?) by those head-in-the-clouds bods who said "nobody can teach you how to teach"; meaning, they weren't going to try, though they took the money; and left it to Michael Marland and a handful of others to keep us alive in those dangerous early years. Take it from me, you can learn a few tricks on how to run a happy class, from people who will teach you. Find them, and learn from them, starting with MM.