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For anyone who is new to the teaching profession their first year can be notoriously difficult. This book goes a long way to help by offering tried-and-tested strategies and solutions on how to cope. The latest edition also includes case studies and shared experiences from an author who has worked at all levels within the profession. This will not only help the reader to survive but also enjoy their first year in teaching.The new edition of this successful book offers practical advice for trainee teachers, NQTs and others new to the profession. It is designed to help them survive and enjoy the difficult first year as a teacher. Written in Sue Cowley's honest and down-to-earth style, the book uses real situations and experiences to tell it like it is.
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Sue Cowley is the author of a number of best-selling education and parenting books. She has been a contributor to many teaching publications, including the TES and Junior Education. She has taught students at both primary and secondary level, in the UK and overseas. She now works as an educational writer, trainer and presenter.
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130 of 131 people found the following review helpful
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I have yet to read a teaching book that so thoroughly fills me with the sense that 'yes I can do this'.
This book was recommended to me by a friend and I'm glad I have it for the start of my first teaching year. Staring Teaching is good, solid manual for that first year and a sedative for those first year jitters. There are sections on every aspect of teaching, from behaviour to paperwork to stress. The behaviour section in particular offers good solid advice (perfect the teacher stare).
Sue writes clearly and effectively, from many years experience. The more I read this book the more I feel confident about teaching and feel ready for that first day.
A great start to teaching, even though it is particularly slanted towards secondary.
48 of 48 people found the following review helpful
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As a Head of Department in a secondary school I love this book and recommend it to every student I have in school. I still use it myself as it tells you how to do things short and simple. For the experienced practitioner it is a good reminder on how we should be doing things. It has survival tactics for each term of the year, planning, behaviour management, teaching and learning, pastoral care, climbing the paper mountain, marking, exams, reports, networking and who to avoid in the staff room, how to deal with parents, meetings, extra curricular activities, getting through induction and CPD. There is an excellent chapter at the end on moving on to another school and how to make job applications. I cannot say enough how much I personally love this book.
41 of 43 people found the following review helpful
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What can I say?....
I got this book because I wanted a quick and easy reference guide that would help me basically survive my NQT Year. I bought quite a few books as I hadn't had any recommended to me from my course. Well, I can tell you this book was by far the best - so good in fact that I took all the other books back. I found that this book was a really easy, enjoyable book to read.
I felt completely bombarded by all the information that us NQTs had to take on board but this book really put everything into context, in order of importance and really is to the point with some really great hints and tips, from the layout of your classroom, to how to make good impressions on your first day, to marking and how to deal with parents...really is a mini teaching encyclopedia.
I found this book so helpful that I bought her other books 'Getting the Buggers to Behave' and 'The Teaching Clinic'. Sue Cowley really is a great help to any teacher in the classroom whether that be Primary Ed or Secondary Ed. If you buy any books as a teacher I would buy her's. The thing that makes her books SO invaluable is that she is teacher herself so is drawing from life experience, she's not talking as a person who has never set foot in a classroom, which is refreshing!
It is not a book that you read once, you can read it over and over or just dip in and out, either way I feel that she is an asset to the educational profession and her writing shows this very well.
Trust me you won't be disappointed!!! :-)
I got this book because I wanted a quick and easy reference guide that would help me basically survive my NQT Year. I bought quite a few books as I hadn't had any recommended to me from my course. Well, I can tell you this book was by far the best - so good in fact that I took all the other books back. I found that this book was a really easy, enjoyable book to read.
I felt completely bombarded by all the information that us NQTs had to take on board but this book really put everything into context, in order of importance and really is to the point with some really great hints and tips, from the layout of your classroom, to how to make good impressions on your first day, to marking and how to deal with parents...really is a mini teaching encyclopedia.
I found this book so helpful that I bought her other books 'Getting the Buggers to Behave' and 'The Teaching Clinic'. Sue Cowley really is a great help to any teacher in the classroom whether that be Primary Ed or Secondary Ed. If you buy any books as a teacher I would buy her's. The thing that makes her books SO invaluable is that she is teacher herself so is drawing from life experience, she's not talking as a person who has never set foot in a classroom, which is refreshing!
It is not a book that you read once, you can read it over and over or just dip in and out, either way I feel that she is an asset to the educational profession and her writing shows this very well.
Trust me you won't be disappointed!!! :-)
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A book which makes the prospect of teaching much less daunting- through, but not so full of detail as to be a hard read. Lots of good ideas.
Published 21 months ago by Teao
All the help I can get
With only weeks before I start teaching, I need all the advise I can get and this book has plenty. Lots of practical tips and ideas of things to do over the summer in preparation. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Simon J. Lewis
For new teachers
This is good for tips on how to survive starting out teaching. We all have high expectations when we start to teach, but boy are we smacked down to earth in the real classroom. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2010 by Loz
excellent practical resource
This review is just a fly-by overview of the book as I haven't fully read the book yet.
I'll probably add to my evaluation later, as time goes and as I read through it. Read more
I'll probably add to my evaluation later, as time goes and as I read through it. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2009 by Mr. Z. Trenovszki
Brill
Just what I was looking for, a great help to clear things up on the NQT year
Published on 27 Sep 2009 by Mr. M. Trowbridge
This book is genius!
I was fortunate enough to have been given this book free but wanted to review it since it is simply brilliant! If I had of bought it there is no way i would be disappointed. Read more
Published on 19 July 2009 by C. Clements
Great tips
I really liked this book when I was doing my GTP 3 years ago. It has REAL tips, unlike many books. I found it so good I'd like to translate it in French.
Published on 20 Aug 2005 by Marette Sophie
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