101 Essential Lists for Secondary Teachers

by Elkin, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780826488701
• ISBN10: 0826488706
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Lists range from planning lessons and managing behaviour to continuing professional development and moving upwards and onwards.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Personal Matters	1	(9)
1 Curriculum Vitae	1	(1)
2 Health	2	(1)
3 Pensions	3	(1)
4 Those long holidays	4	(1)
5 Joining a union	5	(1)
6 Joining a subject association	6	(2)
7 Pursuing your hobbies and calling it work	8	(1)
8 Moonlighting	9	(1)
CHAPTER 2: Be Prepared	10	(9)
9 Your essential kit	10	(1)
10 Tips for lesson preparation	11	(1)
11 Have a short story handy	12	(1)
12 Word wheels at the ready	13	(2)
13 An elimination puzzle in your bag	15	(1)
14 Have an assembly up your sleeve	16	(1)
15 Have in your locker...	17	(1)
16 What not to wear	18	(1)
CHAPTER 3: Dealing with Emergencies	19	(3)
17 Fire	19	(1)
18 Pupil illness	20	(1)
19 Other emergencies	21	(1)
CHAPTER 4: The Curriculum	22	(8)
20 Compulsory subjects	22	(2)
21 Examinations and qualifications taken in secondary schools	24	(1)
22 Main examination boards	25	(1)
23 The timetable	26	(1)
24 Post-16	27	(1)
25 Assessment	28	(1)
26 Careers, citizenship and PSHE	29	(1)
CHAPTER 5: Beyond the Compulsory Curriculum	30	(3)
27 Music and drama	30	(1)
28 Sport	31	(1)
29 Three more ways to develop yourself and your pupils	32	(1)
CHAPTER 6: Pupils	33	(11)
30 Adolescents can be...	33	(2)
31 Building a rapport	35	(1)
32 Managing behaviour	36	(1)
33 Pastoral needs	37	(1)
34 Working with parents	38	(1)
35 Twins, triplets and more	39	(1)
36 Trips	40	(1)
37 Varying your teaching style	41	(1)
38 Teaching the opposite sex	42	(1)
39 Should you teach your own children?	43	(1)
CHAPTER 7: Colleagues	44	(11)
40 Staffrooms	44	(1)
41 In a traditional staffroom	45	(2)
42 Staffroom reading matter	47	(1)
43 Get to know the right people	48	(1)
44 Working in the same school as your spouse or partner	49	(1)
45 Teaching colleagues' children	50	(1)
46 Support staff	51	(1)
47 Governors	52	(1)
48 Colleagues and performance management	53	(1)
49 The literary view	54	(1)
CHAPTER 8: Team Playing	55	(9)
50 Role of the form tutor	55	(1)
51 Being part of a team of tutors	56	(1)
52 Being a member of a department or faculty	57	(1)
53 Middle management groups	58	(1)
54 Senior management or leadership group	59	(1)
55 Managing meetings	60	(1)
56 Supporting colleagues	61	(1)
57 Other school teams	62	(1)
58 General Teaching Council (GTC)	63	(1)
CHAPTER 9: Continuing Professional Development	64	(13)
59 Whole school INSET	64	(2)
60 External courses	66	(1)
61 Distance learning	67	(1)
62 Mentoring and coaching	68	(1)
63 Peer classroom observation	69	(1)
64 Sabbaticals	70	(1)
65 International professional development	71	(1)
66 Keeping up to date	72	(1)
67 School-based research	73	(1)
68 CPD portfolios	74	(1)
69 Five easy ways of learning to be a better teacher	75	(1)
70 Books every teacher should have read	76	(1)
CHAPTER 10: What Type of School?	77	(9)
71 The infinite variety of schools	77	(1)
72 Who pays?	78	(1)
73 Selective or comprehensive?	79	(1)
74 Specialist schools	80	(2)
75 Single-sex or mixed?	82	(1)
76 Teaching in an independent school	83	(1)
77 State boarding schools	84	(1)
78 Special schools	85	(1)
CHAPTER 11: Writing Documents	86	(13)
79 Pupil reports: what not to say	86	(1)
80 Pupil reports: what you can say	87	(1)
81 Reports and memos for colleagues	88	(1)
82 Department handbooks	89	(1)
83 School policies	90	(1)
84 Writing to parents	91	(1)
85 Risk assessments	92	(1)
86 The school prospectus	93	(2)
87 Materials for the school website	95	(1)
88 The school magazine	96	(1)
89 Writing for the school intranet	97	(1)
90 Press releases	98	(1)
CHAPTER 12: Moving On, Out or Up	99
91 Reasons for leaving a school	99	(1)
92 Promotion routes	100	(1)
93 Promotion within the school	101	(1)
94 Promotion elsewhere	102	(1)
95 Education-related alternatives to teaching	103	(1)
96 External applications for teaching posts	104	(1)
97 Jobs to consider if you really have had enough	105	(1)
98 Serving notice	106	(1)
99 What to take with you when you leave	107	(1)
100 Maintaining links	108	(1)
101 Former pupils	109