How Not to Teach Diary of an Urban Primary Teacher [Paperback]

If you thought reading Gervaise Phinn was like drinking a warm cup of tea this book will knock you over with the force of a vodka slammer. Mr Read survives the nightmare of planning, Ofsted and an incompetent head ... He also takes the class to Ireland, the House of Commons and wins a film award. We guarantee Christmas Lights, The School Trip and Stressbusters will make you laugh out loud. A searing indictment of our joyless, exam ridden primary curriculum... 'it will take a bareknuckle fight to save its soul.'

Down-to-earth and outrageously funny, this guide?will prove essential reading for all teachers everywhere.

Introduction
1. The heirs of M-Choakumchild- Introduction

2. Some history - How did it ever come to this?

3. - Drowning Not Waving -teaching in an economically challenged area

Autumn

4. Snake Oil - Accelerated Learning a new fad

5. A Local School for Local People - starting a new year

6. Not the Caine Mutiny - the headteacher leaves

7. Guided Reading - a boring LEA training session

8. The stretch limo and Prince Charles' aide - stars for a day

9. The One-Armed Bandit - some of the odd supply teachers who come into school

10. Brian - a pupil I'll never forget

11. A normal afternoon - inclusion isn't working

12. Teaching Awards - not greeted with universal enthusiasm

13. The ICT lesson from hell - a trip out to the local CLC

14. Christmas Lights - the choir sing in town, it pours with rain, and the teaching assistant's car gets broken into...

Spring

15. Reasons to be Cheerful - songs to lighten the mood

16. This is your flight attendant -classroom assistants as teachers