Full Description
Classroom management is key to a successful teaching career. This book has survival advice for NQTs as well as ideas to develop the skills of more experienced teachers. It should: appeal directly to the reader with engaging examples from real classrooms; help readers to cope with every aspect of school life, including the staff room and teacher/parent meetings; and enable readers to pre-empt general classroom management problems.
Table of Contents
Book Structure viii
Acknowledgement viii
Preface to the English edition ix
Preface to Parts 1 and 2 1 (4)
Part 1 On becoming a teacher 5 (40)
Application and interview 5 (4)
New to the school 9 (1)
Initial class contact 9 (3)
The start-up routine 12 (5)
Desperate measures! 17 (1)
Timing the lesson 18 (2)
Asking and taking questions 20 (2)
Making announcements and giving instructions 22 (5)
Pacing 27 (1)
Tests 28 (1)
Tools of the trade 29 (2)
`With-it-ness' 31 (1)
Homework 32 (2)
Files 34 (1)
Cover lessons 34 (1)
Staff meetings 35 (2)
The staffroom 37 (1)
Parents' evenings 38 (1)
School reports 39 (2)
Extracurricular activities 41 (1)
Educational visits 41 (4)
Part 2 Communicating authority in the 45 (24)
classroom
Combating behaviour problems 48 (5)
Confidence 53 (1)
Dealing with trouble 53 (4)
Detention 57 (1)
School Code of Discipline 57 (1)
Exclusion 58 (1)
Triangulation 59 (1)
Meeting the parents 60 (1)
Recording 61 (1)
Emotional clarity 61 (1)
Coercive classroom management style 62 (7)
Preface to Part 3 65 (4)
Part 3 Enabling approaches to classroom 69 (64)
management
The role of self-esteem in classroom 70 (4)
management
Things teachers can do to raise the 74 (6)
self-esteem of students
Teaching a `difficult' class 80 (4)
Some suggestions when teaching a 84 (7)
`difficult' class
Maintaining relationship with students 91 (2)
Constructive confrontation 93 (11)
You're not listening to me! 104 (4)
Motivation 108 (4)
Some characteristic traits of children from 112 (5)
troubled homes
Strategies `low achievers' use for coping 117 (7)
with school
Some suggestions on taking mixed ability 124 (5)
classes
Specific learning difficulties: dyslexia 129 (4)
and dyspraxia
Part 4 Teaching as a career 133 (13)
Phases in the teaching career 133 (5)
Minding ourselves 138 (2)
Strategies for thriving in the job 140 (6)
References 146 (1)
Appendices 147
