The Ultimate Teaching Manual
A route to success for beginning teachers
Published on 16. June 2011
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-4411-3218-5 (ISBN)
Description
This highly-visual book offers primary and secondary teachers practical guidance to help them through their training and first few years in teaching. Embarking on a teaching career is a bit like setting off on an exciting car journey. You've prepared as well as you could, but you have no way of knowing what hazards and pitfalls lie ahead. And when you're on the road on your own, you're going to need more than just a full tank of petrol. Ideal for visual learners, this full-colour handbook uses Highway Code signs to help you navigate life in the classroom. It's easy to dip in and out of, and contains lots of strategies to help establish professionalism and good practice in the classroom. You'll want to have this book with you at all times, gleaning invaluable advice on introducing pace and purpose into lessons without leaving any students behind, preparing resources and lesson plans (and sticking to them) and working collaboratively with your classroom assistant. With checklists, stress busting tips and useful sources of support and advice, this book is the essential guide for all trainee and beginning teachers.
Reviews / Votes
'The Ultimate Teaching Manual is exactly that. Aimed at beginning teachers, it provides a comprehensive exploration of developing practice. There are multiple tips and real life scenarios to illustrate what the new trainee will face which help to contextualise the individual teacher's role in the wider school life and world of education. The Ultimate Teaching Manual poses questions to stimulate the reflective process. Indeed, this book is not just for beginning teachers, but essential reading for the more experienced to get us to question how we are doing things and how to take the right route to improve our results.' Kerensa Carrick, Secondary English teacher, Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge, UK. 'The highway code of teaching' - what a great idea! This book provides an intuitive guide to the everyday challenges of being a teacher. I will be recommending it to all my colleagues. A fantastic companion for your 'teaching journey'. Pearl Gibson, Suffolk and Norfolk PGCE Secondary SCITT Programme Leader, UK A great resource for new teachers with an easy to read style and very relevant content. A useful source of advice and support: Recommended. -- Mary Mountstephen MA (SEN) Learning and Assessment Consultant Gererd Dixie's handbook is written for new teachers and its content is well catered to its intended audience. The book covers all the essentials- from legal requirements to key pedagogy- and also provides useful advice. More importantly it outlines an ethos that puts the child first in every decision... It would make an excellent primer for anyone preparing to start teacher training. Meanwhile, it would be the graduate of only a superlative training course who could learn nothing new from this comprehensive manual. -- Education in ChemistryMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
49
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-3218-5 (9781441132185)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
04/2011
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€23.99
Available for download
Person
Gererd Dixie is an Educational Consultant and Advanced Skills Teacher in Initial Teacher Training in the UK. Gererd has over 30 years' experience in teaching, and was a Professional Development Tutor at a comprehensive school for 18 years. Gererd is author of several education books, including The Trainee Secondary Teacher's Handbook and The Trainee Primary Teacher's Handbook with Janet Bell, both also published by Continuum.
Content
Introduction; Part 1. Studying the map and planning your route; 1. Your legal and professional requirements; 2. Lesson planning; 3. Researching your pupils' and the schools backgrounds; 4. Exploring the OfSTED report; 5. Getting your subject knowledge up to date; 6. Preparing your resources; 7. Preparing your classroom; 8. Liaising with your classroom teaching assistants; 9. Seeking advice from colleagues; Part 2. Reading the signs and avoiding the hazards; 10. Speed signs - Introducing pace and purpose into lessons without leaving any students behind; 11. Stop and Give Way - avoiding conflict.; 12. No U Turns and No Right/Left Turn - achieving consistency in behaviour management.; 13. No overtaking - working collaboratively with teaching assistants; 14. Permit Holders Only - making the school environment a positive and safe place to be; 15. Vehicles may pass either side - personalising learning and multiple intelligences; 16. Segregated cycle and pedestrian route - differentiation; 17. Road narrows - Creating a broad and balanced curriculum; 18. Traffic merging from left ahead - Integrating new pupils into the class; 19. Danger: Ice ahead - Encouraging risk taking in a safe and open class; 20. Hidden dip - Reacting to unexpected behaviour and events; 21. Slippery road - The challenging class; 22. Steep hill upwards - Establishing and retaining good pupil-teacher relations; 23. Traffic signals - Regulating noise levels; 24. Queues likely - making use of 'wait time'; Part 3. Direction, Information and Road Works; 25. Junction approach signs - Juggling the demands of the job; 26. Direction and distance signs - Communicating the aims and objectives of the lesson and setting targets; 27. Controlled Zone - Teaching life skills; 28. No-Through Road - Making decisions; 29. Safety camera signs - moral development of pupils; 30. HomeZone - parental engagement; 31. Services - when, where and how to seek help without losing face; Part 4. Continuing your journey; Index.