Ultimate Teaching Manual

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.

'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.

• 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