Not Quite a Teacher Target practice for beginning teachers

by Bennett, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781441120960
• ISBN10: 1441120963
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-21
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

There are many, many teacher training books that claim to offer practical advice; some of them are even useful. There are also humorous books aimed at teachers claiming to offer a zany, sideways look at our madcap world; some of them even contain a joke. This book, although light in tone, has a serious intent: to reassure trainee and beginning teachers that are parachuted into difficult schools without anything like the right level of preparation. Tom Bennett walks you through the training and initial teaching practice, offering practical advice and wisdom from the more experienced vantage point of hindsight. This double-narrator style allows you to identify with the situation, learn from the experience and then critically reflect on your own teaching journey. But most importantly, this is a teacher training guide disguised as something actually readable.

Author Biography

Tom Bennett is the Behaviour Guru on the TES advice forum and a teacher at Raines Foundation - an inner-city state secondary school in London, UK. Tom is Head of Humanities, Religious Studies and Philosophy, and is author of The Behaviour Guru (also published by Continuum).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
The Starter	p. 1
No one forgets their first teacher: Stepping on to the rollercoaster	p. 3
Keep the door propped open: Being a stranger in a strange land	p. 15
Teachers teaching teachers: Inside the secret garden of teacher training	p. 39
The Main	p. 51
Drag me to Hell: In school, no one can hear you scream	p. 53
Not waving, but drowning: Going under on the first placement	p. 81
Be the inspiration: Starting to feel like a teacher	p. 111
Quo vadis?: Facing up to the job market	p. 129
The Plenary	p. 141
Are you a real teacher, Sir?: Putting the practice into practice	p. 143
Cannons to the left, marking to the right: Adventures beyond the classroom	p. 175
The plenary: What have we learned?	p. 199
Appendix: Useful websites	p. 207
Index	p. 209
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