Overview

Experienced teacher, Gurdeep Singh, provides practical tips and strategies for secondary school teachers to help them manage classroom behaviour, reduce their workload and improve their own wellbeing. Full of humorous anecdotes of the author's teaching successes (and some failures), this book will be invaluable for ECTs and anyone else who is struggling to remember why they went into teaching in the first place. Gurdeep truly believes that teaching is the best profession in the world and, if you are feeling a bit overwhelmed, this book will help you to discover (or rediscover) a love of teaching. The book provides practical, easy-to-use tips on how to build positive relationships, improve classroom behaviour and win over even the most difficult of classes. Tips include advice on seating plans, body language, getting support from other teachers and how to deal with challenging students in a non-confrontational and positive way. New teachers often struggle with the workload. Gurdeep's practical suggestions for cutting down planning and marking time and dealing with everything from being a form tutor to parents' evenings, will help teachers to get their evenings and weekends back. The first few years of teaching are the most difficult. Having to deliver four or five hours of lessons each day is exhausting, both physically and mentally. When this is combined with planning, report writing, marking work and responding to parents, it is not surprising that a third of teachers quit in the first five years of teaching. 101 Ways to Win in Teaching in Secondary School provides a manual to help new teachers get through those first years and start to thrive in teaching.

Full Product Details

Author:   Gurdeep Singh
Publisher:   Brilliant Publications
Imprint:   Brilliant Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.250kg
ISBN:  

9781783173549

ISBN 10:   1783173548
Pages:   166
Publication Date:   05 April 2024
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 THE STARTER CHAPTER 2 BEST OF THE BEST 1 Thank you, it has been a pleasure 2 Let the good kids win 3 Really make them think at the start of the lesson 4 Stock balls and doosras 5 Replace the word 'work' with 'learning' 6 Find out about the best teachers in your school and ask yourself why 7 Accept that it will take time (and focus on the positives) 8 Hands-down questioning 9 Stand up, sit down 10 Be a great form tutor 11 A laugh and a smile? Rudeness and disrespect or just embarrassment? 12 Make confrontations a win-win 13 Simplicity of a three-part lesson 14 Anagrams - to asrtt and ifshin 15 Bad lessons? Blame yourself first 16 Slay the marking monster - who is working harder? 15-minute challenge 17 Slay the planning monster - 10-minute preparation 18 Support circles - learn from others 19 Support staff - the heart and body of the school 20 Wellbeing - YOU have the power to change the way you view things 21 Simple messages and instructions repeated over and over 22 Organisation - growing extra arms and legs KEY TAKEAWAYS CHAPTER 3 THE POWER STRUGGLE 23 Your classroom, your rules - seating plan 24 A look to say it all 25 Open your door, close their window of opportunity 26 Loose control or lose control 27 Sticky note questions 28 Don't enjoy the honeymoon too much 29 No dead time in lessons 30 Change 'if you do, then I will' for poor conduct to 'because you have, now I will' for good behaviour 31 Class wars and bad groups 32 Elastic band - stretch and relax 33 Empathise during tellings-off, don't rant 34 The power of the start 35 The power of the plenary 36 Testing for behaviour 37 Don't encourage an audience 38 Give them space in lessons - they need it 39 Ownership of the line 40 Write the following down 41 De-escalate KEY TAKEAWAYS CHAPTER 4 THE HUMAN TOUCH 42 Build lessons around what they need and want (and tell them what they want if they don't know) 43 'Yes, Sir', 'Yes, Miss' and the disarming smile 44 Name that name 45 Good detentions 46 Praise for everyone 47 Give a little piece of your heart 48 'I haven't got a pen' 49 Calming of the mind 50 Excuse me, am I boring you? 51 The pat on the back 52 Getting it wrong and changing your mind 53 Am I doing a good job? What could I change? 54 Meet and greet 55 The new student 56 Parents - emails and phone calls KEY TAKEAWAYS CHAPTER 5 WALK THE WALK 57 Dress as a role model 58 Good morning, good morning 59 Enjoy the classroom 60 Extracurricular, extra respect 61 Aspirational pitching 62 Walk the unfamiliar school 63 Don't speak - they'll know what you're asking and thinking 64 Play your personality 65 Embrace and learn from bad lessons - don't brush those experiences under the carpet 66 The great resources hoarder 67 Enjoy the small victories 68 Parents' evenings - how to manage them 69 Technology - knowing when and how to use it 70 Complaints about students - keep things in perspective 71 Supply cover - the nightmare dream teacher job 72 Reading, reading, reading 73 The one-hour, six-lesson planning challenge 74 Ensure that your classroom is an extension of you KEY TAKEAWAYS 107 CHAPTER 6 TALK THE TALK 75 The controlled shout 76 Learn to act - watch wrestling! 77 Learn to act - watch stand-up comedy 78 The third person in the room 79 Perfect your lines 80 Only pause for applause 81 Explanation or argument? 82 The quiet mouse 83 Buying yourself time 84 The ineffective angry teacher - remember the dream? 85 Breaking the silence 86 Tweaking your (high) expectations 87 Build up to negatives and positives 88 Distracting the negatives 89 Cold comebacks KEY TAKEAWAYS CHAPTER 7 MIND GAMES 90 Tales of the unexpected 91 The line between confidence and arrogance 92 Sweet little lies 93 Use the force 94 Talk choices 95 Magic and mystery 96 Develop their memory, build their confidence 97 Be larger than life