The Essential Guide to Teaching (The Essential Guides) - Softcover

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Training to teach or a newly qualified teacher (NQT)?

The Essential Guide to Teachingis the book you need to help you become an effective and confident teaching professional.

The highly practical focus, coupled with an insight into the theory and thinking behind the practices you find in schools today, make this book an invaluable resource, not just in your first few years as a teacher, but as a companion guide long into your professional career.

Written by an award-winning teacher with over 25 years' experience, the guide is packed with practical information, teaching tips and tried and tested advice on issues such as:  

• How to plan differentiated lessons
• How to manage the behaviour of your pupils
• How to use data effectively to track the progress of your pupils and set meaningful targets
• How to mark effectively and manage your time
• How to manage an area of responsibility in a school
• How to contribute to the pastoral team of the school
• How to apply for jobs and manage your own professional development

Visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/davies to access extra case studies, examples of best practice and downloadable resources for use in the classroom.

Susan Davies is a Deputy Headteacher in charge of Teaching and Learning in a large inner city 11-18 comprehensive. For more than a decade, she has been actively involved in mentoring, training and supporting both student teachers on placements and NQTs embarking on their first teaching role. She is the winner of the 2001 Teachers’ Award ‘Leadership in a Secondary School’. This is her sixth educational book.