The Ultimate Teaching Manual
A Route to Success for Beginning Teachers
1st Edition
Published on 14. April 2011
224 pages
978-1-4411-2820-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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. 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.More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
49
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-2820-1 (9781441128201)
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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.
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
Preface \ Introduction \ Section 1 \ 1. Your legal and professional requirements \ 2. Researching your pupils' and the schools backgrounds \ 3. Preparing your classroom \ 4. Exploring the OfSTED report \ 5. Lesson planning and preparing your resources \ 6. Getting your subject knowledge up to date \ Section 2 \ 7. Avoiding conflict \ 8. Achieving consistency in behaviour management \ 9. Introducing pace and purpose into lessons without leaving and students behind \ 10. Working collaboratively with teaching assistants \ 11. Making the school environment a positive and safe place to be \ 12. Personalizing learning and multiple intelligences \ 13. Creating a broad and balanced curriculum \ Section 3 \ 14. Integrating new pupils into the class \ 15. Reacting to unexpected behaviour and events \ 16. The challenging class \ 17. Establishing and retaining good pupil-teacher relations and moral development of pupils \ 18. Repair and Rebuild \ 19. Regulating noise levels \ Section 4 \ 20. Making your learning journey transparent \ 21. Communicating the aims and objectives of the lesson and setting targets \ 22. Teaching life skills \ 23. When, where and how to seek help without losing face \ 24. Making decisions \ 25. Parental engagement \ Conclusion \ Bibliography \ Index
