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.
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