Ultimate Teachers' Handbook: What They Never Told You At Tea

Description:
This is the definitive guide to surviving and succeeding in teaching. It covers all the things that trainees are not told at university, but desperately need to know once they find themselves teaching full-time! Hazel Bennett - who has herself combined a career in teaching with running a home, bringing up a family and post-graduate study - gives advice on issues as coping with a daunting amount of paperwork, an ever-increasing curriculum load, pressure to improve the school's position on the league tables, and a pupil population who are frequently more concerned about their rights than their education. A must-read for teachers everywhere.

Table of Contents:
Part 1: The First Few Years - The Bits You Are Not Prepared For; 1. Starting Off on the Right Foot; 2. The Parents; 3. And What Are We Here For? The Pupils; 4. The Thorny Issue of Discipline; 5. Paperwork, Planning and Other Time-Consuming Chores; 6. Taking Assemblies; 7. Organizing Day Trips; 8. Report Writing; 9. The Politics of the Staffroom - Who's Your Friend? 10. Don't Forget the Big Picture; Part 2: How to Make the Most of the Next Thirty Years; 11. Getting Promotion; 12. Alternative Options for Promotion; 13. Advisory Teacher / Consultant; 14. One Step Up To Be an Advisor; 15. Could You Be an Advanced Skills Teacher? 16. How to Survive Ofsted; 17. Special Measures and Fresh Start; 18. Supply Teaching; 19. Peripatetic Teaching; 20. Support Teaching in Someone Else's Classroom; 21. Unions and Professional Associations; 22. Industrial Action; 23. Applying to Move to the Upper Pay Spine; 24. Combining Full-time Teaching with Part-time Study; 25. Combining Full-time Teaching with Childrearing; 26. Teaching in a School Where Your Own Children are Pupils; 27. Teachers' TV Channel; 28. Bereavement in School; 29. Private Tutoring; 30. Advice for the Overseas Teachers in UK Schools; 31. If it all Goes Wrong, What Else Can a Teacher Do? 32. The Last Word, 'If...' (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling)

Author Biography:
Hazel Bennett is a teacher with 30 years of experience in state and private sector in primary, secondary, special, inner-city and suburban schools. The original proposal for this book won first prize in the Writers' News competition last year.